Interior Department Appropriation Bill for 1946: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Seventy-ninth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 3024, a Bill Making Appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1946, and for Other PurposesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1945 - 1182 pages |
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acres additional administration agencies Alaska amendment amount approved authorized automobiles BASHORE Bonneville Power Administration Budget estimate Bureau of Mines Bureau of Reclamation BURRILL Central Valley project Chairman Civilian Conservation Corps Clerk-stenographer coal Congress construction cost DEMARAY Division employees engineers equipment Federal FICKINGER fiscal year 1946 FORSLING funds GABRIELSON going Government Governor HARWOOD grazier grazing districts Grazing Service House committee Hungry Horse Dam included increase Indian insert Inter-American Indian Institute Interior Department investigations irrigation language maintenance ment National Park National Park Service necessary operation overtime percent personnel plans plant proposed public lands purchase purpose range improvements record reduction requested restoration River Salaries and expenses SAYERS Secretary Senator BURTON Senator CHAVEZ Senator HAYDEN Senator MCKELLAR Senator O'MAHONEY Senator THOMAS Senator WHERRY STRAUS surveys Taylor Grazing Act THORON tion United WOLFSOHN
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Page 56 - Interior is hereby authorized and directed to make examinations and surveys for, and to locate and construct, as herein provided, irrigation works for the storage, diversion, and development of waters, including artesian wells, and to report to Congress at the beginning of each regular session as to the results of such examinations and surveys, giving estimates of cost of all contemplated works, the quantity and location of the lands which can be irrigated therefrom, and all facts relative to the...
Page 442 - State in which such national forest is situated, to be expended as the state legislature may prescribe for the benefit of the, public schools and public roads of the county or counties in which...
Page 57 - That all moneys received from the sale and disposal of public lands in Arizona, California, Colorado. Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico...
Page 220 - stop injury to the public grazing lands by preventing overgrazing and soil deterioration, to provide for their orderly use, improvement and development and to stabilize the livestock industry dependent upon the public range, and for other purposes...
Page 419 - Rate schedules shall be drawn having regard to the recovery (upon the basis of the application of such rate schedules to the capacity of the electric facilities of the projects) of the cost of producing and transmitting such electric energy, including the amortization of the capital investment allocated to power over a reasonable period of years.
Page 505 - The original convention and the instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Republic, which shall communicate the ratifications to the other signatory States.
Page 112 - Secretary; and the payment of dues, when authorized by the Secretary, for library membership in societies or associations which issue publications to members only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers who are not members.
Page 379 - Silverman, chief counsel of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions, Department of the Interior, was detailed by the Secretary of the Interior at the committee's request to serve as counsel of the committee.
Page 827 - Hereafter, whenever the Secretary of War determines, upon recommendation by the Secretary of the Interior that any dam and reservoir project operated under the direction of the Secretary of War may be utilized for irrigation purposes...
Page 516 - Indians by the principal chief of the Choctaw Nation and the governor of the Chickasaw Nation, and shall then submit such contract to said Indians for their approval.