TRANSPORTATION OF MAILS For an additional amount for "Transportation of mails", for payment of increased rates to railroad carriers for 1951 and prior fiscal years, in accordance with Interstate Commerce Commission Order of December 4, 1950 (Docket Numbered 9200), $152,000,000. FIELD SERVICE, POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL Clerks, First- and Second-Class Post Offices For an additional amount, fiscal year 1947, for "Clerks, first- and second-class post offices", $150,000, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation "Clerks, third-class post offices, 1947". OFFICE OF SECOND ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL Railroad Transportation and Mail Messenger Service For an additional amount, fiscal year 1948, for "Railroad transportation and mail messenger service," $200,000, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation "Domestic air mail service, 1948”. [Total, Post Office Department, $159,500,000.] Total, Treasury and Post Office Departments (chapter IV) __. CHAPTER V DEPARTMENT OF LABOR BUREAU OF EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION FUND For an additional amount for "Employees' compensation fund", $3,000,000 FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY OFFICE OF EDUCATION GRANTS FOR SURVEYS AND SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION For an additional amount for "Grants for surveys and school construction," to remain available until expended, $50,000,000, of which such amount as the Commissioner of Education determines to be necessary shall be available for urgently needed school facilities in areas determined by the President to be critical areas by reason of national defense activities: Provided, That appropriations and contract authorizations heretofore granted under this head, shall also be available to enable the Commissioner to provide school facilities pursuant to sections 203 and 204 of the Act of September 23, 1950 (Public Law 815). Total, Department of Labor and Federal Security Agency $152, 000, 000 159,980,000 3, 000, 000 50, 000, 000 53, 000, 000 CHAPTER VI DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOREST SERVICE FOREST DEVELOPMENT ROADS AND TRAILS For an additional amount for "Forest development roads and trails", $3,300,000, to remain available until expended.. COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION The limitation under this head in the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1951, on the amount available for administrative expenses of the Corporation, is increased from "$16,350,000" to "$19,100,000". CHAPTER VII DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS SALARIES AND EXPENSES For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses", $2,000--- BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS CONSTRUCTION For an additional amount for "Construction", $3,650,000, to remain available until expended. TERRITORIES AND ISLAND POSSESSIONS CONSTRUCTION, ALASKA RAILROAD For an additional amount for "Construction, Alaska Railroad", $4,000,000, to remain available until expended__ Total, Department of the Interior (chapter VII). CHAPTER VIII INDEPENDENT OFFICES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION ANNUITIES, LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE WIDOWS For payment of annuities as authorized by the Act of August 19, 1950 (64 Stat. 465), $204,500. GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION STRATEGIC AND CRITICAL MATERIALS The amount authorized to be transferred from the appropriation granted under this head in the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1951, to the appropriation "Operating expenses", for the reactivation of industrial plants, is increased from "$14,000,000" to "$26,000,000". $3,300,000 2,750,000 (corporate funds) 2,000 3,650,000 4, 000, 000 7,652, 000 204, 500 EMERGENCY OPERATING EXPENSES Appropriations granted under this head for the fiscal year 1951 shall be available for emergency alterations and improvements to public buildings under the control of the General Services Administration. OFFICE OF THE HOUSING EXPEDITER SALARIES AND EXPENSES The amount made available under this head in the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1951, only for the payment of terminal leave is changed from "$2,000,000" to "$1,750,000"." VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION COMPENSATION AND PENSIONS For an additional amount for "Compensation and pensions", $26,618,000, to remain available until expended.. AUTOMOBILES AND OTHER CONVEYANCES FOR DISABLED VETERANS To enable the Administrator to provide, or assist in providing, automobiles or other conveyances for disabled veterans as authorized by the Act of September 21, 1950 (Public Law 798), $800,000__ [Total, Independent Offices, $27,622,500.] DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE MARITIME ACTIVITIES MARITIME TRAINING The limitation under the head "Maritime training", United States Maritime Commission, in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1951, on the amount available for administrative personal services and so forth is increased from "$2,477,000" to "$2,532,000". VESSEL OPERATIONS REVOLVING FUND For working capital for the "Vessel Operations Revolving Fund", which is hereby created for the purpose of carrying out vessel operating functions of the Secretary of Commerce, including charter, operation, maintenance, repair, reconditioning, and betterment of merchant vessels under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Commerce, $20,000,000, to remain available until expended. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rates for shipping services rendered under said Fund shall be prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce and the Fund shall be credited with all receipts from vessel operating activities conducted thereunder: Provided, That the provisions of sections 1 (a), 1 (c), 3 (c) and 4 of Public Law 17, Seventy-eighth Congress (57 Stat. 45), as amended, shall be applicable in connection with such operations and to seamen employed through general agents as employees of the United States, who may be employed in accordance with customary commercial practices in the maritime industry, notwithstanding the provisions of any law applicable in terms to the employment of persons by the United States: Provided further, That such sums as may be determined to be necessary by the Secretary of Commerce, with the approval of the Bureau of the Budget, but not exceeding 2 per centum of vessel operating expenses, may be advanced from this Fund to the appropriation "Salaries and expenses" for the purposes of that appropriation in connection with vessel operating functions, but without regard to the $26, 618, 000 800,000 20, 000, 000 limitations on amounts as stated therein: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the unexpended balances of any working funds or of allocation accounts established, subsequent to January 1, 1951, for the activities provided for under this appropriation, together with receipts heretofore and hereafter received from such activities, may be transferred to and consolidated with this Fund, which shall be available for the purposes of such working funds or allocation accounts. 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. Total, Independent Offices (chapter VIII) CHAPTER IX DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CIVIL FUNCTIONS, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY THE PANAMA CANAL CIVIL GOVERNMENT For an additional amount for "Civil government", $72,000, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation "Maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal." CORPS OF ENGINEERS NIAGARA REDEVELOPMENT REMEDIAL WORKS INVESTIGATION For engineering and economic investigations, pending authorization for construction, of projects for development and utilization for power purposes of the waters of the Niagara River, allocated to the United States under the treaty between the United States of America and Canada, signed February 27, 1950, and ratified by the United States Senate on August 9, 1950, to remain available until expended, $450,000, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation "Flood control, general". CHAPTER X FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S WELFARE WORK To enable the President, during the fiscal year 1951, to carry out the provisions of title V of the Foreign Economic Assistance Act of 1950 (64 Stat. 209), relating to international children's welfare work, $5,750,000 $47, 622, 500 5,750,000 CHAPTER XI FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT EXPENSES OF DEFENSE PRODUCTION For an additional amount for "Expenses of defense production", $27,331,895: Provided, That appropriations under this head for the fiscal year 1951 shall be available for rental of buildings or parts thereof in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including repairs, alterations, and improvements necessary for the proper use by the Government, without regard to section 322 of the Act of June 30, 1932, as amended (40 U. S. C. 278a): Provided further, That the appropriation to the President for Emergencies (National Defense) shall be reimbursed from funds contained herein for allocations made therefrom to any agency of the Government for carrying out the provisions of the Defense Production Act of 1950 after March 31, 1951: Provided further, That the aggregate of borrowings from the Treasury pursuant to section 304 (b) of the Defense Production Act of 1950 which may be outstanding at any one time is increased from "$600,000,000" to "$1,600,000,000": Provided further, That any appropriation to any department, agency, or corporation, in the executive branch of the Government, for salaries and expenses, shall be available for the discharge of responsibilities, relating to the national defense, assigned to such department, agency, or corporation by or pursuant to law and transfers may be made between appropriations or allocations within any such department, agency, or corporation as may be necessary to carry out this proviso, and no allocation shall be made to any agency which can perform such defense activities as may have been or hereafter be assigned to such agency which can be performed by its regular personnel by use of the foregoing authority to realign its regular programs. INDEPENDENT OFFICES FEDERAL CIVIL DEFENSE ADMINISTRATION OPERATIONS For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in carrying out the provisions of the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950 (Public Law 920, 81st Congress), including purchase (not to exceed five) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); reimbursement of the Civil Service Commission for full field investigations of employees occupying positions of critical importance from the standpoint of national security; and expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with civil defense functions; $1,750,000: Provided, That $110,000 shall be available for providing civil defense communications systems pursuant to subsection (c) of section 201 of said Act. FEDERAL CONTRIBUTIONS For financial contributions to the States pursuant to subsection (i) of section 201 of the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950, $25,000,000, to be equally matched with State funds, of which $20,000,000 shall be for medical supplies and equipment and $5,000,000 for training and education, to remain available to June 30, 1952. CIVIL DEFENSE PROCUREMENT FUND For working capital for the "Civil defense procurement fund", which is hereby established for the purpose of financing the procure $27, 331, 895 1,750,000 25, 000, 000 |