Public Building Act of 1926 with Amendments

To relieve destitution, to broaden the lending powers of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and to create employment by providing for and expediting a public-works program.

TITLE III-PUBLIC WORKS

SEC. 301. (a) For the purpose of providing for emergency construction of certain authorized public works with a view to increasing employment and carrying out the policy declared in the Employment Stabilization Act of 1931, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $322,224,000, which shall be allocated as follows:

(1) For expenditure in emergency construction on the Federalaid highway system, $120,000,000. Such sum shall be apportioned by the Secretary of Agriculture to the several States by the method provided in section 21 of the Federal Highway Act, as amended and supplemented (U. S. C., title 23, sec. 21). The amounts apportioned to the States shall be available as a temporary advance of funds to meet the provisions of such Act as to State funds. The amount apportioned to any State under this paragraph may be used to match the regular annual Federal-aid apportionments made to such State (including the one for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933), and when so used such amount shall be available for expenditure in paying the share of such State in the cost of Federal-aid projects. No amounts apportioned under this paragraph shall be advanced except for work on the Federal-aid highway system performed before July 1, 1933: Provided, That the amounts so advanced shall be reimbursed to the Federal Government over a period of ten years, commencing with the fiscal year 1938, by making annual deductions from regular apportionments made from future authorizations for carrying out the provisions of such Act, as amended and supplemented: Provided further, That all contracts involving the expenditure of such amounts shall contain provisions establishing minimum rates of wages, to be predetermined by the State highway department, which contractors shall pay to skilled and unskilled labor, and such minimum rates shall be stated in the invitation for bids and shall be included in proposals or bids for the work: And provided further, That in the expenditure of such amounts, the limitations in the Federal Highway Act, as amended and supplemented, upon highway construction, reconstruction, and bridges within municipalities and upon payments per mile which may be made from Federal funds, shall not apply. As used in this

paragraph, the term "State" includes the Territory of Hawaii. The term "highway," as defined in the Federal Highway Act, approved November 9, 1921, as amended and supplemented, for the purposes of this paragraph only, shall be deemed to include such main State parkways as may be designated by the State and approved by the Secretary of Agriculture as part of the Federalaid highway system.

(2) For expenditure in emergency construction during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, $16,000,000, as follows: (A) For the construction and improvement of national-forest highways, $5,000,000; (B) for the construction and maintenance of roads, trails, bridges, fire lanes, and so forth, including the same objects specified in the paragraph commencing with the words "Improvement of the national forests" under the heading "National Forest Administration" in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, approved February 23, 1931 (46 Stat. 1242), $5,000,000; (C) for the construction, reconstruction, and improvement of roads and trails, inclusive of necessary bridges, in the national parks and national monuments under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, including areas to be established as national parks authorized under the Act of May 22, 1926 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 16, secs. 403 to 403c), and under the Act of May 25, 1926 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 16, secs. 404 to 404c), and national park and monument approach roads authorized by the Act of January 31, 1931 (46 Stat. 1053), as amended, or any one section of such roads of not less than eight miles, which crosses lands wholly or to the extent of 90 per centum owned by the Government of the United States, $3,000,000; (D) for construction and improvement of Indian reservation roads under the provisions of the Act approved May 26, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 25, sec. 318a), $1,000,000; and (E) for the survey, construction, reconstruction, and maintenance of main roads through unappropriated or unreserved public lands, nontaxable Indian lands, or other Federal reservations other than the forest reservations, under the provisions of section 3 of the Federal Highway Act, as amended and supplemented (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 23, secs. 3 and 3a), $2,000,000. The Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior, respectively, are authorized to make rules and regulations for carrying out the foregoing provisions of this section with a view to providing the maximum employment of local labor consistent with reasonable economy of construction.

(3) For the prosecution of river and harbor projects heretofore authorized, $30,000,000.

(4) For the prosecution of flood-control projects heretofore authorized, $15,500,000.

(5) For the continuation of construction of the Hoover Dam and incidental works, as authorized by the Boulder Canyon Project Act, approved December 21, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 43, ch. 12A), $10,000,000.

(6) For expenditure by the Department of Commerce for air. navigation facilities, including equipment, $500,000.

(7) For constructing or purchasing and equipping lighthouse tenders and light vessels for the Lighthouse Service as may be spe

cifically approved by the Secretary of Commerce, $950,000, and for establishing and improving aids to navigation and other works as may be specifically approved by the Secretary of Commerce, $2,860,000.

(8) For the engineering work of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, Department of Commerce, heretofore authorized, $1,250,000.

(9) For the construction of projects included in the report of the Federal Employment Stabilization Board, laid before the Senate January 25, 1932, which have heretofore been authorized or which do not require specific authorization, under the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy Department, $10,000,000, of which not to exceed $300,000 shall be available for the employment of classified personal services in the Bureau of Yards and Docks and in the field service to be engaged upon such work and to be in addition to employees otherwise provided for.

(10) For emergency construction of public building projects outside the District of Columbia (including the acquisition, where necessary, by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, of sites and additional land for such buildings, the demolition of old buildings where necessary, and the construction, remodeling, or extension of buildings), such projects to be selected by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster General from the public building projects specified in House Document Numbered 788, Seventy-first Congress, third session, $100,000,000. Such projects shall be carried out within the limits of cost specified in such document (except as modified by law), and in selecting such projects preference shall be given to places where Government facilities are housed in rented buildings under leases which will expire on or before July 1, 1934, or which may be terminated on or prior to that date by the Government.

(11) For the construction and installation at military posts of such buildings and utilities and appurtenances thereto as may be necessary, $15,164,000, as follows:

Albrook Field, Canal Zone: Quartermaster maintenance building, $20,000; post exchange, theater, and gymnasium, completion of, $42,000.

Barksdale Field, Louisiana: Noncommissioned officers' quarters, $252,000; officers' quarters, $609,000; barracks, $474,000; hospital, completion of, $225,000; garage, completion of, $30,000; quartermaster warehouse, completion of, $15,000.

William Beaumont General Hospital, Texas: Noncommissioned officers' quarters, $7,000; warehouse, $15,000.

Fort Benning, Georgia: Barracks, $650,000.

Fort Bliss, Texas: Noncommissioned officers' quarters, $50,000; officers' quarters, $150,000.

Bolling Field, District of Columbia: Noncommissioned officers' quarters, $54,000; dispensary, completion of, $30,000; post exchange, theater, and gymnasium, completion of, $45,000; officers' mess, $50,000; enlargement of central heating plant to provide for quarters area, $95,000.

Fort Bragg, North Carolina: Barracks, completion of, $40,000; noncommissioned officers' quarters, $160,000.

Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania: Heating plant, $200,000.

Chanute Field, Illinois: Noncommissioned officers' quarters, $137,000; central heating plant for technical and quarters area, $200,000. Camp Devens, Massachusetts: Roads and sidewalks, $75,000; service club, $30,000; post exchange and gymnasium, $50,000.

Fort Douglas, Utah: Noncommissioned officers' quarters, $15,000. Dryden, Texas: Barracks, $20,000.

Duncan Field, Texas: Quartermaster warehouse, $40,000; quartermaster maintenance building, $20,000; garage, $40,000; fire and guard house, $25,000.

Fort Du Pont, Delaware: Noncommissioned officers' quarters, $60,000.

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland: Noncommissioned officers' quarters, $70,000.

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Colorado: Gymnasium, recreation, and social hall, $150,000.

Hamilton Field, California: Officers' quarters, $215,000; noncommissioned officers' quarters, $120,000.

Fort Hamilton, New York: Noncommissioned officers' quarters, $100,000.

Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana: Noncommissioned officers' quarters, $120,000.

Hensley Field, Texas: Noncommissioned officers' quarters, $8,000; officers' quarters, $30,000; roads, utilities, and improvement of flying field, $25,000; replacement of pumping plant, $3,000; sewage-disposal plant, $3,000.

Holabird Quartermaster Depot, Maryland: Hospital, $120,000. Fort Sam Houston, Texas: Noncommissioned officers' quarters, $150,000; officers' quarters, $350,000.

Fort Howard, Maryland: Hospital, $150,000.

Fort Hoyle, Maryland: Noncommissioned officers' quarters, $70,000. Fort Humphreys, Virginia: Officers' quarters, $150,000.

Fort Huachuca, Arizona : Post exchange, gymnasium, and service club, $100,000.

Fort Jay, New York: Noncommissioned officers' quarters, $130,000; barracks, completion of, $70,000; officers' quarters, $125,000; nurses' quarters, completion of, $35,000.

Jefferson Barracks, Missouri: Noncommissioned officers' quarters, $65,000; additions to kitchens and mess halls, $55,000.

Camp Knox, Kentucky: Hospital, $200,000.

Langley Field, Virginia: Central heating plant for quarters area, $60,000; quartermaster maintenance building, $20,000; fire house, $20,000; barracks, medical detachment, $30,000; garage, completion of, $15,000; magazine, completion of, $10,000.

Fort Lawton, Washington: Noncommissioned officers' quarters, $30,000.

Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: Nurses' quarters, $60,000.

Letterman General Hospital, California: Two wards, $150,000. Fort Lewis, Washington: Barracks, completion of, $30,000; water main, $30,000; noncommissioned officers' quarters, $75,000; officers' quarters, $65,000.

Fort Logan, Colorado: Noncommissioned officers' quarters, $53,000. Fort McClellan, Alabama: Headquarters, $50,000; recreation hall,

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