INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION

INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION General expenses: For necessary expenses of the Interstate Commerce Commission not otherwise provided for, including not to exceed $5,000 for employment of special counsel; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), at rates not to exceed $50 per diem for individuals; newspapers (not to exceed $200); purchase of not to exceed twenty passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; and not to exceed $260,000 for expenses of travel; $9,816,000, of which $100,000 shall be available for valuations of pipelines and $1,100,000 shall be available for the Section of Complaints, Bureau of Motor Carriers: Provided, That Joint Board members and cooperating State commissioners may use Government transportation requests when traveling in connection with their duties as such. Defense transport activities: For expenses necessary to enable the Commissioner of the Interstate Commerce Commission who has been delegated functions under the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, to carry out such functions, including expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the purposes of this appropriation, $170,000. Railroad safety: For expenses necessary in performing functions authorized by law (45 U. S. C. 1–15, 17–21, 35–46, 61–64; 49 U. S. C. 26) to insure a maximum of safety in the operation of railroads, including authority to investigate, test experimentally, and report on the use and need of any appliances or systems intended to promote the safety of railway operation, including those pertaining to block-68 Stat. 285 signal and train-control systems, as authorized by the joint resolution approved June 30, 1906, and the Sundry Civil Act of May 27, 1908 (45 U. S. C. 35–37), and to require carriers by railroad subject to the Act to install automatic train-stop or train-control devices as prescribed by the Commission (49 U. S. C. 26), including the employment of inspectors and engineers, and including not to exceed $163,050 for expenses of travel, $974,500. Locomotive inspection: For expenses necessary in the enforcement of the Act of February 17, 1911, entitled “An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto”, as amended (45 U. S. C. 22–34), including not to exceed $112,620 for expenses of travel, $709,500.