not to exceed $60,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Gaging streams Gaging streams: For gaging streams and determining the water P,. . supply of the United States, investigating underground currents and artesian wells and methods of utilizing the water resources, $1,510,000, of which not to exceed $200,000 may be expended for personal services cooperation with in the District of Columbia: Provided, That no part of this appro- States . priation shall be expended in cooperation with States or municipalities except upon the basis of the State or municipality bearing all of the expense incident thereto in excess of such an amount as is necessary for the Geological Survey to perform its share of general water resource investigations, such share of the Geological Survey in no case exceeding 50 per centum of the cost of the investigation: Pro- Amount available. ve further, That $1,100,000 of this amount shall be available only for such cooperation with States or municipalities; Classification of lands: For the examination and classification of lands with respect to mineral character and water resources as required by the public-land laws and for related administrative operations; for the preparation and publication of mineral-land clas- sification and water-resources maps and reports- for engineering supervision of power permits and grants under the jurisdiction of the Secretary; and for performance of work for the Federal Power Commission, $240,000, of which not to exceed $60,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Printing and binding, and so forth: For printing and binding, $87,500; for preparation of illustrations, $27,840; and for engraving and printing geologic and topographic maps, $235,000; in all, $350,340; MineraBiieang. Mineral leasing: For the enforcement of the provisions of the Acts 88 Stat. 742; 40 Stat of October 20, 1914 (48 U. S. C. 435), October 2,1917 (30 U. S. C. 141),
' February 25, 1920 (30 U. S. C. 181), as amended, and March 4, 1921 (48 U. S. C. 444), and other Acts relating to the mining and recovery of minerals an Indian and public lands and naval petroleum reserves, and for necessary related operations; and for every expense incident thereto, including supplies, equipment, expenses of travel, the con- struction, maintenance, and repair of necessary camp buildings and appurtenances thereto, $557,000, of which not to exceed $80,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Cooperative advance: To enable the Geological Survey to meet obli- gations incurred by it arising from cooperative work pending reim- bursement from cooperating agencies, $400,000, which amount shall be returned to the Treasury not later than six months after the close of the fiscal year 1945 out of reimbursements received from cooperating agencies; on sentific, etc., i- During the fiscal year 1945 the head of any department or inde- vesUgatofs _ pendent establishment of the Government having funds available for scientific and technical investigations within the scope of the functions of the Geological Survey may, with the approval of the Secretary, transfer to the Geological Survey such sums as may be necessary therefor, which sums so transferred may be expended for the same objects and in the same manner as sums appropriated herein may be Interchange of expended: Provided, That not to exceed 10 per centum of any of the moun t. appropriations for the Geological Survey may be transferred to any other of such appropriations, but no appropriation shall be increased Report to ngrewss more than 10 per centum thereby. Any such transfer shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget; In all, salaries and expenses, Geological Survey, $6,658,160. 492 [58 STAT. PUBLIC LAWS-COH. 298-JUNE 28,1944
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