APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1955 45992 HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE EIGHTY-THIRD CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H. R. 8680 MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1954 SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS GUY CORDON, Oregon, Chairman MILTON R. YOUNG, North Dakota WILLIAM F. KNOWLAND, California HOMER FERGUSON, Michigan KARL E. MUNDT, South Dakota MARGARET CHASE SMITH, Maine HENRY C. DWORSHAK, Idaho CARL HAYDEN, Arizona STYLES BRIDGES, New Hampshire, Chairman Ex Officio WILLIAM W. WOODRUFF, Clerk to Subcommittee II G.L. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1955 MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1954 UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met, at 10 a. m., pursuant to call, in room F-81, the Capitol, Hon. Guy Cordon (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senators Cordon, Young, Smith, Dworshak, Hayden, McCarran, Ellender, and Magnuson, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATEMENTS OF HON. DOUGLAS MCKAY, SECRETARY OF THE SCOPE OF HEARING Senator CORDON. The subcommittee will come to order. We are glad to have you with us this morning, Mr. Secretary, and presently I know the committee is going to be interested in your presentation. Before we take up the bill I would like to have the record indicate something of the nature of the problem that is before the committee. The funds carried in this bill are for the activities of the Department of the Interior, the Virgin Islands Corporation, and the Federal Coal Mine Safety Board of Review. BUDGET ESTIMATES For these purposes the budget estimates total $427,633,110, which includes $5,514,680 submitted in Senate Document 113. The bill as passed by the House totals $364,337,989-a reduction of over 13 percent of the budget estimates considered by the House. For the current fiscal year appropriations for these purposes totaled $434,631,050. It will be noted that the total estimates for fiscal year 1955 reflect a reduction of $6,997,940 below the appropriations for the current fiscal year. 1 SUMMARY TABLE OF APPROPRIATIONS Secretary McKay, we are glad to have you and the members of your staff with us today. Before you proceed with your statement I would like to insert in the record a summary table of appropriations for the Department of the Interior and the Virgin Islands Corporation for fiscal years 1950 through 1954, the budget estimates for fiscal year 1955, and the House allowances in H. R. 8680. I think the members of the committee will be interested in the totals, so I will read them into the record at this point: |