Weather Bureau

Weather Bureau salaries and expenses For expenses necessary for the Weather Bureau, including maintenance and operation of aircraft; purchase of upper air supplies for delivery through December 31, of the next fiscal year; and not to 77 Stat. 789exceed $10,000 for maintenance of a printing office in the city of Washington, as authorized by law; $64,527,100. research and development For expenses necessary for the conduct of research by the Weather Bureau, including development and service testing of equipment; purchase of one aircraft; operation and maintenance of aircraft; and for acquisition, establishment, and relocation of research facilities and related equipment: $10,400,000, to remain available until June 30, 1966: Provided, That appropriations heretofore granted under this head shall be merged with this appropriation. research and development (special foreign currency program) For purchase of foreign currencies which the Treasury Department determines to be excess to the normal requirements of the United States, for necessary expenses of the Weather Bureau, as authorized by law, $250,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available in addition to other appropriations to the Bureau for the purchase of the foregoing currencies. establishment of meteorological facilities For an additional amount for the acquisition, establishment, and relocation of operational facilities and related equipment, including the alteration and modernization of existing facilities, and for the acquisition of land; $4,800,000, to remain available until June 30, 1966: Provided, That the appropriations heretofore granted under this head shall be merged with this appropriation.