PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 280 -JUNE 29, 1949
maintenance of all other improvements necessary for the proper and
economical administration, protection, development, and use of the
national forests, including experimental areas under Forest Service
Direct prchases.
administration, except that where direct purchases will be more eco-
nomical than construction, improvements may be purchased; the con-
struction (not to exceed $15,000 for any one structure), equipment,
and maintenance of sanitary and recreational facilities; timber cul-
tural operations; development and application of fish and game man-
agement plans; propagation and transplanting of plants suitable for
planting on semiarid portions of the national forests; estimating and
appraising of timber and other resources and development and appli-
Homestead lands,
cation of plans for their effective management, sale, and use; exami-
nation, classification, surveying, and appraisal of land incident to
effecting exchanges authorized by law and of lands within the bound-
aries of the national forests that may be opened to homestead settle-
ment and entry under the Act of June 11, 1906, and the Act of August
34Stat.233;37Stat. 10, 1912 (16 U. S. C. 506-509), as provided by the Act of March 4,
1913 (16 U.S . C. 512); investigation and establishment of water
rights, including the purchase thereof or of lands or interests in lands
or rights-of-way for use and protection of water rights necessary
or beneficial in connection with the administration and public use
of the national forests; and all expenses necessary for the use, main-
tenance, improvement, protection, and general administration of the
national forests, $26,300,000, of which not to exceed $25,000 shall be
available for the purchase of one nursery site, and the limit of cost for
not to exceed one building constructed at Horseshoe Organization
Telephone lines.
Camp, West Virginia, shall be $22,500: Provided,That appropriations
for the Forest Service shall be available hereafter for the correction
of inductive interference on Forest Service telephone lines caused by
transmission lines constructed by organizations financed by loans from
the Rural Electrification Administration.
Fighting forest fires: For fighting and preventing forest fires on
or threatening lands under Forest Service administration, including
lands under contract for purchase or in process of condemnation for
Forest Service purposes, $100,000, which amount shall also be avail-
able for meeting obligations of the preceding fiscal year.
Forest research: For forest research in accordance with the provi-
sions of sections 1, 2. 7, 8, 9, and 10 of the Act approved May 22, 1928,
45 Stat. 699-702.
as amended (16 U. S . C . 581, 581a, 581f-581i), including the construc-
Ant.271.
tion and maintenance of improvements, as follows:
Forest and range management investigations: Fire, silvicultral,
watershed, shelterbelts, and other forest investigations and experi-
I6UT. C .c. 581a.
ments under said section 2, as amended, and investigations and experi-
ments to develop improved methods of management of forest and
16 U S.c. §68f.
other ranges under section 7, at forest or range experiment stations
or elsewhere, $2,818,500.
Forest products: Experiments, investigations, and tests of forest
16 U.8.
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products under section 8, at the Forest Products Laboratory, or
elsewhere, $1,172,000.
Forest resources investigations: A comprehensive forest survey
16U.S.C.§581
h, under section 9, and investigations in forest economics under section
Ante, p. 271 .
10, $866,000.
FOREST DEVELOPMENT ROADS AND TRAILS
For expenses necessary for carrying out the provisions of section
23 of the Federal Highway Act approved November 9, 1921, as
S42tat.218; 49 Stat. amended (23 U. S . C. 23, 23a), relating to forest development roads
Experimental areas.
and trails, including the construction, reconstruction, and maintenance
of roads and trails on experimental areas under Forest Service admin-
istration, $10,348,000, which sum is authorized to be appropriated by
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