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funds appropriated in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriation Act, 1966, under the heading "Cooperative research", shall be transferred to and merged with this appropriation.

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses”, $4,050,000.

VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION ADMINISTRATION

RESEARCH AND TRAINING

For an additional amount for "Research and training", $6,100,000.

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For grants for community planning, services, and training, and for grants and contracts for research and development projects and training projects, and for consultative services, technical assistance, training and other services, relating to programs for the aged and aging, and for salaries and expenses in connection therewith, $7,000,000, as authorized by the Older Americans Act of 1965: Provided, That upon establishment of the Administration on Aging, any funds appropriated in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriation Act, 1966, under the head "Salaries and expenses, Office of Aging" shall be transferred to and merged with this appropriation.

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NATIONAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF

For carrying out the National Technical Institute for the Deaf Act (Public Law 89-36), $420,000, to remain available until expended.

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(PUBLIC LAW 89-213, APPROVED SEPT. 29, 1965)

House hearings were held before the Subcommittee on Department of Defense Appropriations of the House Committee on Appropriations, intermittently from February 11 to May 12, 1965. The record of the hearings was printed in 5 parts comprising a total of 3,228 pages. Senate hearings were held before a subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Appropriations intermittently from February 24 to August 4, 1965. The record of the hearings was printed in 2 parts comprising a total of 2,136 pages.

H.R. 9221 was introduced on June 17, 1965, by Representative George M. Mahon, of Texas. The bill was referred to the Committee on Appropriations. It was reported from that committee on June 17,

1965 (Rept. No. 528). It passed the House on June 23, 1965. It was reported in the Senate, from the Committee on Appropriations, on August 18, 1965 (Rept. No. 625). It passed the Senate, amended on August 25, 1965. The conference report was filed on September 15, 1965 (Rept. No. 1006). The House agreed to the conference report on September 17, 1965. The Senate agreed to the conference report on September 21, 1965. The act was approved by the President on September 29, 1965, and became Public Law 89-213.

Public Law 89-213 appropriates billions of dollars for the Armed Forces, which generally are in training at all times while not actually engaged in combat. Altogether the training includes instruction in numerous subjects, particularly those entering into vocational education.

Appropriations supporting specific purposes concerning education and training, named in Public Law 89-123 generally are included in, and are not separately identifiable from, appropriations for larger purposes. Examples of both the larger purposes and the more specific purposes concerning education and training are quoted from the act as follows:

(A) Operation and maintenance, Army:

(1) "tuition and fees incident to training of military personnel at civilian institutions"

(2) "expenses for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and other units at educational institutions"

(B) Operation and maintenance, Navy:

(1) "training and education of members of the Navy" (2) "tuition, allowances, and fees incident to training of military personnel at civilian institutions"

(C) Operation and maintenance, Air Force:

(1) "Air Reserve Officers' Training Corps"

(2) "training and instruction of military personnel of the Air Force, including tuition and related expenses"

(D) Operation and maintenance, Defense agencies:

(1) "tuition and fees incident to the training of military personnel at civilian institutions"

(2) "information and educational services for the Armed Forces"

Following is the text of certain provisions of Public Law 89-213 concerning education and training:

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RESERVE PERSONNEL, ARMY

For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel, and related expenses for personnel of the Army Reserve on active duty under sections 265 and 3033 of title 10, United States Code, or while undergoing reserve training or while performing drills or equivalent duty, and for members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, as authorized by law; $238,600,000: Provided, That the Army Reserve will be programed to attain an end strength of two hundred seventy thousand for fiscal year 1966.

RESERVE PERSONNEL, NAVY

For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel, and related expenses for personnel of the Naval Reserve on active duty under section 265 of title 10, United States Code, or while undergoing reserve training, or while performing drills or equivalent duty, regular and contract enrollees in the Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps, and retainer pay, as authorized by law; $105,100,000.

RESERVE PERSONNEL, MARINE CORPS

For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel, and related expenses for personnel of the Marine Corps Reserve and the Marine Corps platoon leaders class on active duty under section 265 of title 10, United States Code, or while undergoing reserve training, or while performing drills or equivalent duty, as authorized by law; $33,000,000.

RESERVE PERSONNEL, AIR FORCE

For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel, and related expenses for personnel of the Air Force Reserve on active duty under section 265 or 8033 of title 10, United States Code, or while undergoing reserve training, or while performing drills or equivalent duty, and for members of the Air Reserve Officers' Training Corps, as authorized by law; $60,500,000.

NATIONAL GUARD PERSONNEL, ARMY

For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel, and related expenses for personnel of the Army National Guard while on duty under sections 265, 3033, or 3496 of title 10 or section 708 of title 32, United States Code, or while undergoing training or while performing drills or equivalent duty, as authorized by law; $271,800,000: Provided, That obligations may be incurred under this appropriation without regard to section 107 of title 32, United States Code: Provided further, That the Army National Guard will be programed to attain an end strength of not less than three hundred eighty thousand for fiscal year 1966.

NATIONAL GUARD PERSONNEL, AIR FORCE

For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel, and related expenses for personnel of the Air National Guard on duty under sections 265, 8033, or 8496 of title 10 or section 708 of title 32, United States Code, or while undergoing training or while performing drills or equivalent duty, as authorized by law; $71,300,000: Provided, That obligations may be incurred under this appropriation without regard to section 107 of title 32, United States Code.

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TITLE II

OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE

OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY

For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the operation and maintenance of the Army, including administration; medical and dental care of personnel entitled thereto by law or regulation (including charges of private facilities for care of military personnel on duty or leave, except elective private treatment), and other measures necessary to protect the health of the Army; care of the dead; chaplains' activities; awards and medals; welfare and recreation; recruiting expenses; transportation services; communications services; maps and similar data for military purposes; military surveys and engineering planning; repair of facilities; hire of passenger motor vehicles; tuition and fees incident to training of military personnnel at civilian institutions; field exercises and maneuvers; expenses for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and other units at educational institutions, as authorized by law; and not to exceed $4,308,000 for emergencies and extraordinary expenses, to be expended on the approval or authority of the Secretary of the Army, and payments may be made on his certificate of necessity for confidential military purposes, and his determination shall be final and conclusive upon the accounting officers of the Government; $3,483,600,000, of which not less than $225,000,000 shall be available only for the maintenance of real property facilities.

OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, NAVY

For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the operation and maintenance of the Navy and the Marine Corps, including aircraft and vessels; modification of aircraft, missiles, missile systems, and other ordnance; design and alteration of vessels; training and education of members of the Navy; administration; procurement of military personnel; hire of passenger motor vehicles; welfare and recreation; medals, awards, emblems, and other insignia; transportation of things (including transportation of household effects of civilian employees); industrial mobilization; medical and dental care; care of the dead; charter and hire of vessels; relief of vessels in distress; maritime salvage services; military communications facilities on merchant vessels; dissemination of scientific information; administration of patents, trademarks, and copyrights; annuity premiums and retirement benefits for civilian members of teaching services; tuition, allowances, and fees incident to training of military personnel at civilian institutions; repair of facilities; departmental salaries; conduct of schoolrooms, service clubs, chapels, and other instructional, entertainment, and welfare expenses for the enlisted men; procurement of services, special clothing, supplies, and equipment; in

stallation of equipment in public or private plants; exploration, prospecting, conservation, development, use, and operation of the naval petroleum and oil shale reserves, as authorized by law; and not to exceed $9,825,000 for emergency and extraordinary expenses, as authorized by section 7202 of title 10, United States Code, to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary and his determination shall be final and conclusive upon the accounting officers of the Government; $3,332,100,000, of which not less than $141,000,000 shall be available only for the maintenance of real property facilities, and not to exceed $1,169,000 may be transferred to the appropriation for "Salaries and expenses", Weather Bureau, Department of Commerce, fiscal year 1966 for the operation of ocean weather stations: Provided, That not to exceed $8,600,000 of the unobligated balance of the appropriation made under this head for the fiscal year 1960, and subsequently withdrawn under the Act of July 25, 1956 (31 U.S.C. 701), may be restored and transferred to the appropriation account for "Medical care, Navy," for the fiscal year 1958.

OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, MARINE CORPS

For expenses, necessary for the operation and maintenance of the Marine Corps including equipment and facilities; procurement of military personnel; training and education of regular and reserve personnel, including tuition and other costs incurred at civilian schools; welfare and recreation; conduct of schoolrooms, service clubs, chapels, and other instructional, entertainment, and welfare expenses for the enlisted men; procurement and manufacture of military supplies, equipment, and clothing; hire of passenger motor vehicles; transportation of things; medals, awards, emblems, and other insignia; operation of station hospitals, dispensaries and dental clinics; and departmental salaries; $192,500,000, of which not less than $20,462,000 shall be available only for the maintenance of real property facilities.

OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR FORCE

For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the operation, maintenance, and administration of the Air Force, including the Air Force Reserve and the Air Reserve Officers' Training Corps; operation, maintenance, and modification of aircraft and missiles; transportation of things; repair and maintenance of facilities; field printing plants; hire of passenger motor vehicles; recruiting advertising expenses; training and instruction of military personnel of the Air Force, including tuition and related expenses; pay, allowances, and travel expenses of contract surgeons; repair of private property and other necessary expenses of combat maneuvers; care of the dead; chaplain and other welfare and morale supplies and equipment; conduct of schoolrooms, service clubs, chapels, and other instructional, entertainment, and welfare expenses for enlisted men and patients not otherwise provided for; awards and decorations; industrial mobilization, including maintenance of reserve plants and equipment and pro

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