DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Bureau of the Census salaries and expenses For an additional amount for “Salaries and expenses”, $515,500, of which $87,500 shall be derived by transfer from the appropriation granted in the Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1956, for “Census of agriculture”. Maritime Activities ship construction The limitation under this head in the Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1956, on the number of cargo ships for replacement, for which payment may be made for construction-differential subsidy and national-defense features, is increased from five to ten; and the authority contained in that Act for the Vessel Operations Revolving Fund is amended to include the following: “for activation, repair and deactivation of merchant ships chartered under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Commerce;”. operating-differential subsidies For an additional amount for “Operating-differential subsidies”, $30,000,000, to remain available until expended. war shipping administration liquidation The limitation under this head in the Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1956, on the amount available from prior appropriations for the liquidation of certain obligations approved by the General Accounting Office and for the payment of obligations incurred against the working fund titled “Working fund, Commerce, War Shipping Administration functions, December 31, 1946”, is increased from “$5,900,000” to “$24,000,000”: Provided, That the amount of such increase shall be available only for Court of Claims and district court judgments and payments to disabled seamen authorized by Fifty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 758. Bureau of Public Roads federal-aid-highways For an additional amount for “Federal-aid highways”, to remain available until expended, $100,000,000, which sum is a part of the amount authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 1955. 70 Stat. 163 forest highways For an additional amount for “Forest highways”, to remain available until expended, $3,000,000, which sum is a part of the amount authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 1956. National Bureau of Standards plant and equipment Not to exceed $15,000 of the appropriation granted under this head in the Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1956, shall be available for necessary expenses for the acquisition of land necessary for the operation of a radio propagation field station in the Territory of Hawaii. independent agencies Small Business Administration revolving fund For additional capital for the revolving fund authorized by the Small Business Act of 1953, as amended, to be available without fiscal year limitation, $20,000,000.