S. 126 In the Senate of the US - Amendment

• Description: S. 1265
• Date: 2/17/1939
• Author: Senate of the United States
• Title: S. 126 In the Senate of the US - Amendment
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Legislation

074.39 -91313
76th CONGRESS
lst Session
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
February 17, 1939
Referred to the Special Committee to Investigate Unemployment and Relief
and ordered to be printed
MENDPAENT
Intended to be proposed by MR. HAYDEN to the bill (S. 1265)_ to establish
a Department of" Public Works, to amend certain sections of the
Social Security Act, and for other purposes, viz: At the end•of
the-bill add a new title as follows:
TITLE III--- NATIONAL.RESOURCES BOAR
SEC`- 1. It is =hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress to
-develop, integrate, and coordinate plans and activities for-or incidental
to-the promotion of 'navigation, in order to aid and .protect commerce
among the several States, strengthen the national defense, and promote
the formulation of comprehensive plans to control and� navigable
and nonnavigable waters, to control floods, to reclaim arid and semiarid
lands,'and to conserve, develo,p,and utilize the water, soil,. forest and:
other resources •of the United States. „
SEC..,2.,There is. hereby establishedtatNational Resources Board
(hereinafter referred to as the Board), which shall be composed of the
`Secretaries of the Treasury, 'Tar, ,Interior;, Agriculture, ,Commerce, Labor,
and Public Works, and three other members to be appointed by the President
from widely separated sections of the United- States, by and with the advice
and consent of the Senate. One of the members of the Board shall be
designated by the President as C'hairman,'and one of such members shall be
desi'dnated• by the President as Vice Chairman!' ,,,The 'appointive members of
the 'Board shall be compensated at the rate'of'$50 per day for time spent
in-at , tending and traveling to and from Board meetings, or in otherwise
exercising the functions of the Board,..plus the actual cost of such travel:,
PROVIDED, That in no case shall such a member be'entitled to receive
compensation for more than thirty dayst services,in any two consecutive
months.: .,
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