June 13, 1957 [H. R. 6700] Department of Commerce and Re lated Agencies Appropriation Act, 63 Stat. 954. 5 USC 1071 note. 70 Stat. 314. 68 Stat. 1013. 52 Stat. 973. Public Law 85-52 AN ACT Making appropriations for the Department of Commerce and related agencies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1958, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Department of Commerce and related agencies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1958, namely: TITLE I-DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE GENERAL ADMINISTRATION Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the general administration of the Department of Commerce, $2,695,200. BUREAU OF THE CENSUS Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for collecting, compiling, and publishing current census statistics provided for by law, including enumerators at rates to be fixed without regard to the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, $7,881,800. 1958 censuses of business, manufactures, and mineral industries: For expenses necessary for preparing for the 1958 censuses of business, manufactures, and mineral industries as authorized by law, including enumerators at rates to be fixed without regard to the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, and additional compensation of Federal employees temporarily detailed for field work under this appropriation, $1,000,000: Provided, That the appropriation granted under this head in the Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1957, shall be merged with this appropriation. Eighteenth decennial census: For expenses necessary for preparing for, taking, compiling, and publishing the eighteenth decennial census, as authorized by law (13 U. S. Č. 5-9, 11, 23-25, 141-145), including enumerators at rates to be fixed without regard to the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, and additional compensation of Federal employees temporarily detailed for field work under this appropriation; $3,250,000, to remain available until December 31, 1962. CIVIL AERONAUTICS ADMINISTRATION Operation and regulation: For necessary expenses of the Civil Aeronautics Administration in carrying out the provisions of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as amended (49 U. S. C. 401), and other Acts incident to the enforcement of safety regulations, maintenance and operation of air-navigation and air-traffic control facilities, and disposal of surplus airports and administering instruments of disposal; planning, research, and administrative expenses for carrying 49 1101 out the provisions of the Federal Airport Act of May 13, 1946, as 60 Stat. 170. note. USC amended, including furnishing advisory services to States and other public and private agencies in connection with the construction or improvement of airports and landing areas; developmental work and service-testing as tends to the creation of improved air-navigation facilities, including landing areas, aircraft, aircraft engines, propellers, appliances, personnel, and operation methods, and acquisition of sites for such activities by lease, or grant; purchase of not to exceed forty-four passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; hire of aircraft (not exceeding $675,000); operation and maintenance of not to exceed ninety-two aircraft; fees and mileage of expert and other witnesses; and purchase and repair of skis and snowshoes; $181,747,800: Provided, That there may be credited to this appropriation, funds received from States, counties, municipalities, and other public authorities for expenses incurred in the maintenance and operation of airnavigation facilities. Establishment of air-navigation facilities: For an additional amount for the acquisition, establishment, and improvement by contract or purchase and hire of air-navigation facilities, including the initial acquisition of necessary sites by lease or grant; the construction and furnishing of quarters and related accommodations for officers. and employees of the Civil Aeronautics Administration and the Weather Bureau stationed at remote localities not on foreign soil where such accommodations are not available; the initial flight checking of air-navigation facilities and the transportation by air to and from and within the Territories of the United States of materials and equipment secured under this appropriation; $124,603,525, to remain available until expended. Grants-in-aid for airports (liquidation of contract authorization): For liquidation of obligations incurred under authority granted in the Act of August 3, 1955 (69 Stat. 441), to enter into contracts, 1105, 1108, 1111. $25,000,000, to remain available until expended. Maintenance and operation, Washington National Airport: For expenses incident to the care, operation, maintenance and protection of the Washington National Airport, including purchase of one passenger motor vehicle for replacement only; purchase, cleaning, and repair of uniforms; and arms and ammunition; $1,566,000. Construction, Washington National Airport: For an additional amount for "Construction, Washington National Airport," including construction, alterations, and repairs, $250,000, to remain available until expended. Maintenance and operation of public airports, Territory of Alaska: For expenses necessary for the maintenance, improvement, and operation of public airports in the Territory of Alaska, as authorized by law (48 U. S. C. 485 c-h); including arms and ammunition; and purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms; $700,000. Air navigation development: For expenses necessary for planning and developing a national system of aids to air navigation and air traffic control common to military and civil air navigation, including research, experimental investigations, purchase and development, by contract or otherwise, of new types of air navigation aids (including plans, specifications, and drawings); hire of aircraft; acquisition of necessary sites by lease or grant; payments in advance under contracts for research or development work; and not to exceed $218,000 for administrative expenses; $1,500,000. COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act of August 6, 1947 (33 U. S. C. 883a-8831), including purchase of not to exceed three passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by the Act of September 1, 1954 (68 Stat. 1114), as amended; lease of sites and the erection of temporary buildings for tide, magnetic or seismological observations; hire of aircraft; operation, maintenance, and repair of an airplane; extra compensation at not to exceed $15 per month to each member of the crew of a vessel when assigned duties. 49 USC 1101 62 Stat. 278. 61 Stat. 787. 5 USC 2131 note. 67 Stat. 50 1. 63 Stat. 7. 50 USC app. 2021 note. 67 Stat. 577. as recorder or instrument observer, and at not to exceed $1 per day for each station to employees of other Federal agencies while making oceanographic observations or tending seismographs; pay, allowances, gratuities, transportation of dependents and household effects, and payment of funeral expenses, as authorized by law, for not to exceed 185 commissioned officers on the active list; payments under the Uniform Services Contingency Option Act of 1953; and pay of commissioned officers retired in accordance with law; $11,550,000, of which $566,000 shall be available for retirement pay of commissioned officers: Provided, That during the current fiscal year, this appropriation shall be reimbursed for press costs and costs of paper for charts published by the Coast and Geodetic Survey and furnished for the official use of the military departments of the Department of Defense. BUSINESS AND DEFENSE SERVICES ADMINISTRATION Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Business and Defense Services Administration, including transportation and not to exceed $15 per diem in lieu of subsistence for persons serving without compensation while away from their homes or regular places of business, $5,682,000. OFFICE OF AREA DEVELOPMENT Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Office of Area Development, $395,000. BUREAU OF FOREIGN COMMERCE Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Bureau of Foreign Commerce, including the purchase of commercial and trade reports, $2,353,250. Export control: For expenses necessary for carrying out the provisions of the Export Control Act of 1949, as amended, relating to export controls, including awards of compensation to informers under said Act and as authorized by the Act of August 13, 1953 (22 U. S. C. 401), $3,060,000, of which not to exceed $1,006,000 may be advanced to the Bureau of Customs, Treasury Department, for enforcement of the export control program, and of which not to exceed $93,400 may be advanced to the appropriation for "Salaries and expenses" under General administration. OFFICE OF BUSINESS ECONOMICS Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Office of Business Economics, $1,035,000. MARITIME ACTIVITIES Ship construction: For acquisition of used ships pursuant to sec53 Stat. 1183; 68 tion 510 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended (46 U. S. C. Stat. 680. 1160), and for research, development, and design expenses incident to new and advanced ship design, machinery, and equipment; $3,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That transfers may be made to the appropriation for the current fiscal year for "Salaries and expenses" for administrative and warehouse expenses (not to exceed $1,700,000) and for reserve fleet expenses (not to exceed $500,000), and any such transfers shall be without regard to the limitations under that appropriation on the amounts available for such expenses. 49 Stat. 2001. Operating-differential subsidies: For the payment of obligations incurred for operating-differential subsidies granted on or after January 1, 1947, as authorized by the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, and in appropriations heretofore made to the United 1182. States Maritime Commission, $35,000,000, and in addition, $65,000,000 to be derived by transfer from the appropriation "War Shipping Administration Liquidation, Treasury Department", to remain available until expended: Provided, That hereafter, to the extent that the operating-differential subsidy accrual (computed on the basis of parity) is represented on the operator's books by a contingent accounts receivable item against the United States as a partial or complete offset to the recapture accrual, the operator (1) shall be excused from making deposits in the special reserve fund, and (2) as to the amount of such earnings the deposit of which is so excused shall be entitled to the same tax treatment as though it had been deposited in said special reserve fund. To the extent that any amount paid to the operator by the United States reduces the balance in the operator's contingent receivable account against the United States, such amount shall forthwith be deposited in the special reserve fund of the opertor: Provided further, That no contracts shall be executed during the current fiscal year by the Federal Maritime Board which will obligate the Government to pay operating differential subsidy on more than two thousand one hundred voyages in any one calendar year, including voyages covered by contracts in effect at the beginning of the current fiscal year. Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for carrying into effect the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, and other laws administered by the Federal Maritime Board and the Maritime Administration, $15,425,000, within limitations as follows: Administrative expenses, including not to exceed $1,125 for entertainment of officials of other countries when specifically authorized by the Maritime Administrator, $7,045,000; Maintenance of shipyard and reserve training facilities and operation of warehouses, $1,530,000; Reserve fleet expenses, $6,850,000. 49 Stat. 1985. 46 USC 1245. 53 Stat. 1182. Maritime training: For training cadets as officers of the merchant marine at the Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York, including pay and allowances for personnel of the United States Maritime Service as authorized by law (46 U. S. C. 1126, 63 Stat. 802, 64 Stat. 794, 66 Stat. 79, and 70 Stat. 25); and not to exceed $2,500 sq. for contingencies for the Superintendent, United States Merchant Marine Academy, to be expended in his discretion; $2,394,300, including uniform and textbook allowances for cadet midshipmen, at an average yearly cost of not to exceed $200 per cadet: Provided, That except as herein provided for uniform and textbook allowances this appropriation shall not be used for compensation or allowances for cadets. State marine schools: To reimburse the State of California, $47,500; the State of Maine, $47,500; the State of Massachusetts, $47,500; and the State of New York, $47,500; for expenses incurred in the maintenance and support of marine schools in such States as provided in the Act authorizing the establishment of marine schools, and so forth, approved March 4, 1911, as amended (34 U. S. C. 1121–1123); $149,800 for the maintenance and repair of vessels loaned by the United States to the said States for use in connection with such State marine schools; and $320,200 for allowances for uniforms, textbooks, and subsistence of cadets at State marine schools, to be paid in accordance with regulations established pursuant to law (46 U. S. C. 1126 (b)); $660,000. 36 Stat. 1353. 70 Stat. 25. War Shipping Administration liquidation: Not to exceed $10,000,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation to the Secretary of the Treasury in the Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1948, for liquidation of obligations approved by the General Accounting Office as properly incurred against funds of the War Shipping Administration prior to January 1, 1947, is hereby continued available during the current fiscal year, and shall be available for the payment of obligations incurred against the working fund titled: "Working fund, Commerce, War Shipping Administration functions, December 31, 1946": Provided, That the unexpended balance of such appropriation to the Secretary of the Treasury less the amount of $10,000,000 continued available and less the amount of $65,000,000 transferred to the appropriation "Operating-differential subsidies", by this Act, is hereby rescinded, the amount of such unexpended balance to be carried to the Surplus Fund and covered into the Treasury immediately upon the approval of this Act. General provisions-Maritime activities: No additional vessels shall be allocated under charter, nor shall any vessel be continued under charter by reason of any extension of chartering authority beyond June 30, 1949, unless the charterer shall agree that the Maritime Administration shall have no obligation upon redelivery to accept or pay for consumable stores, bunkers and slop-chest items, except with respect to such minimum amounts of bunkers as the Maritime Administration considers advisable to be retained on the vessel and that prior to such redelivery all consumable stores, slop-chest items, and bunkers over and above such minimums shall be removed from the vessel by the charterer at his own expense. No money made available to the Department of Commerce for maritime activities, by this or any other Act shall be used in payment for a vessel the title to which is acquired by the Government either by requisition or purchase, or the use of which is taken either by requisition or agreement, or which is insured by the Government and lost while so insured, unless the price or hire to be paid therefor (except in cases where section 802 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, is applicable) is computed in accordance with subsection 902 (a) of said Act, as that subsection is interpreted by the General Accounting Office. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Maritime Administration is authorized to furnish utilities and services and make necessary repairs in connection with any lease, contract, or occupancy involving Government property under control of the Maritime Administration, and payments received by the Maritime Administration for utilities, services, and repairs so furnished or made shall be credited to the appropriation charged with the cost thereof: Provided, That rental payments under any such lease, contract, or occupancy on account of items other than such utilities, services, or repairs shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. No obligations shall be incurred during the current fiscal year from the construction fund established by the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, or otherwise, in excess of the appropriations and limitations contained in this Act, or in any prior appropriation Act, and all receipts which otherwise would be deposited to the credit of said fund shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. |