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62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 754-JUNE 29, 1948 Second Street South, to give continuous ownership in the east and west direction as between the United States Government (Bureau of Reclamation) and the city of Grand Island. The records show that all of this land was acquired from individual owners by the United States of America during August and September 1943, and the trans- fers are recorded with the registrar of deeds, Hall County, Nebraska, and the following buildings located in the hospital area numbered as follows: T-1112, T-1113, T-1114, T-1115, T-1116, T-1117, T-1118, T-1122, T-1100, T-1103, T-1104, T-1105, T-1107, T-1101, T-1102, T-1106, T-1108, T-1109, T-1110, T-1111, and T-1120, together with all roads, improvements, electric power lines, heating lines, water lines, sewer systems, Air-Temp units, steam boilers, and other appurtenances to the above-listed buildings, and all other facilities and equipment incident to said hospital area not heretofore disposed of. The War Assets Administration is authorized and directed to transfer to the Bureau of Reclamation unexpended balances of funds available for maintenance and protection of transferred property under the Department of the Interior Appropriation Act of 1947 (Public Law 478, Seventy-ninth Congress) to reimburse the Bureau of Reclamation for expenditures made for the maintenance and pro- tection of the Yuma Army Air Base and such transfer shall be made hereafter for the maintenance and protection of the Yuma Army Air Base, pending its final disposition as contemplated in the Interior Appropriation Act of 1948 (Public Law 247, Eightieth Congress, first session). The Reconstruction Finance Corporation is authorized and directed to transfer to the Bureau of Reclamation, without reimbursement or transfer of funds, all of its right, title, and interest in and to a certain building and improvements under Defense Plant Corporation project, Plancor 1437, constructed on the War Relocation Center at the Heart Mountain Division of the Shoshone project, Wyoming. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY For salaries and expenses necessary for the Geological Survey, including personal services in the District of Columbia; urchase (not to exceed one hundred and sixty-six, of which one hundred and forty-six shall be for replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles and the maintenance and operation of aircraft; and exchange of unserviceable passenger and freight vehicles as part payment for new freight vehicles; as follows: Salaries and expenses: For personal services in the District of Columbia, and other expenses, $237,350; Topographic surveys: For topographic surveys in the United States, Alaska, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico, $4,350,000, of which not to exceed $540,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided,That no part of this appropriation 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 standard topographic surveys, such share of the Geological Survey in no case exceeding 50 per centum of the cost of the survey: Providedfurther, That $610,000 of this amount shall be available only for such cooperation with States or municipalities; Geologic surveys: For geologic surveys in the United States and chemical and physical researches relative thereto, including the printing of geologic reports, $2,625,000, of which not to exceed $592,500 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Mineral resources of Alaska: For investigation of the mineral 1133 Transfer of funds 60 Stat. 36Q. 61 Stat. 477 . Transfer of build- ing, etc. (eneral elpenxrs. Cooperation with States, etc. Amount available.