HEALTH PROGRAMS FOR GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES SEPTEMBER 1, 1944.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. RAMSPECK, from the Committee on the Civil Service, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 5257] The Committee on the Civil Service, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 5257) to provide for health programs for Government employees, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass. The amendment is as follows: On page 2. after line 21. add the following section SEC. 2. This Act shall not apply to the Tennessee Valley Authority. GENERAL STATEMENT This bill takes the place of H. R. 4909 upon which a subcommittee of the House Committee on the Civil Service held hearings on August 21 and 22, 1944. In those hearings appear reports of the various departments and agencies of the Government including Federal Security Agency, United States Civil Service Commission, Bureau of the Budget, Department of Agriculture, Veterans' Administration, War Department, United States Public Health Service, as well as representatives of the National Association of Manufacturers, Eastern Kodak Corporation, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., and others. The committee feels that the time has come for the Federal Government as an employer, to provide adequate health and medical programs for its employees. Industry, over a period of years, has recognized that such programs make a direct contribution to the efficiency and productive capacity of employees. Government should profit by the experience of industry in this respect. The purpose of this bill is to give legislative sanction to the Federal departments and agencies to establish employee health programs within the limits of appropriations, when the need for such service has been substantiated. DISPOSING OF CERTAIN PAPERS SEPTEMBER 5, 1944.-Ordered to be printed Mr. ELLIOTT, from the Joint Committee on the Disposition of Executive Papers, submitted the following REPORT The joint select committee of the Senate and House of Representatives appointed on the part of the Senate and House of Representatives, and acting in compliance with the provisions of the act approved July 7, 1943 (57 Stat. 380), respectfully reports to the Senate and House of Representatives that it has received and examined the report of the Archivist of the United States No. 45-5, dated August 28, 1944, to the Seventy-eighth Congress, second session, submitting the following lists or schedules, or parts of lists or schedules, covering records proposed for disposal by the Government agencies indicated: Your committee reports that the records proposed for disposal in the said lists or schedules, or parts of lists or schedules, reported by the Archivist of the United States do not, or will not after the lapse of the period specified, have sufficient administrative, legal, research, or other value to warrant their continued preservation by the Government and recommends that their disposal be accomplished, subject to the provisions of section 9 of the aforementioned act, in accordance with the regulations promulgated by the National Archives Council under the provisions of said act. Respectfully submitted to the Senate and House of Representatives. A. J. ELLIOTT, Chairman, B. W. GEARHART, Members on the part of the House. ALBEN W. BARKLEY, OWEN BREWSTER, Members on the part of the Senate. о DISPOSING OF CERTAIN PAPERS SEPTEMBER 5, 1944.-Ordered to be printed Mr. ELLIOTT, from the Joint Committee on the Disposition of Executive Papers. submitted the following REPORT The joint select committee of the Senate and House of Representatives appointed on the part of the Senate and House of Representatives, and acting in compliance with the provisions of the act approved July 7, 1943 (57 Stat. 380), respectfully reports to the Senate and House of Representatives that it has received and examined the report of the Archivist of the United States No 45-4, dated August 23, 1944, to the Seventy-eighth Congress, second session, submitting the following lists or schedules, or parts of lists or schedules, covering records proposed for disposal by the Government agencies indicated: Your committee reports that the records proposed for disposal in the said lists or schedules, or parts of lists or schedules, reported by the Archivist of the United States do not, or will not after the lapse of the period specified, have sufficient administrative, legal, research, or other value to warrant their continued preservation by the Government and recommends that their disposal be accomplished, subject to the provisions of section 9 of the aforementioned act, in accordance with the regulations promulgated by the National Archives Council under the provisions of said act. Respectfully submitted to the Senate and House of Representatives. Members on the part of the House. ALBEN W. BARKLEY, OWEN BREWSTER. Members on the part of the Senate. О DISPOSITION OF CERTAIN PAPERS SEPTEMBER 5, 1944.-Ordered to be printed Mr. ELLIOTT, from the Joint Committee on the Disposition of Executive Papers, submitted the following REPORT The joint select committee of the Senate and House of Representatives appointed on the part of the Senate and House of Representatives, and acting in compliance with the provisions of the act approved July 7, 1943 (57 Stat. 380), respectfully reports to the Senate and House of Representatives that it has received and examined the report of the Archivist of the United States No. 45-3, dated August 15, 1944, to the Seventy-eighth Congress, second session, submitting the following lists or schedules, or parts of lists or schedules, covering records proposed for disposal by the Government agencies indicated: Your committee reports that the records proposed for disposal in the said lists or schedules, or parts of lists or schedules, reported by the Archivist of the United States do not, or will not after the lapse of the period specified, have sufficient administrative, legal, research, or other value to warrant their continued preservation by the Government and recommends that their disposal be accomplished, subject to the provisions of section 9 of the afore-mentioned act, in accordance with the regulations promulgated by The National Archives Council under the provisions of said act. Respectfully submitted to the Senate and House of Representatives. A. J. ELLIOTT, Chairman, B. W. GEARHART, Members on the part of the House. ALBEN W. BARKLEY, OWEN BREWSTER, Members on the part of the Senate. O 78TH CONGRESS 2d Session } HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES { REPORT No. 1841 PROVIDING FOR THE EXTENSION OF CERTAIN OIL AND GAS LEASES SEPTEMBER 5, 1944.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. BARRETT, from the Committee on the Public Lands, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 5283] The Committee on the Public Lands, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 5283) to provide for the extension of certain oil and gas leases, having considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass. EXPLANATION OF THE BILL Last year Congress passed Public Law 212 which extended the time to December 31, 1944. The report accompanying that legislation is as follows, and outlines the situation existing: A Oil and gas leases are issued by the Secretary of the Interior for a term of 5 years and so long thereafter as oil or gas is produced from the leased land. lessee who fails to discover oil or gas within the 5-year term has a preference right to a new lease provided the land is not then within the producing structure of an oil and gas field. If the land is on a producing structure the lessee has no better right to a new lease than anyone else but must bid against competitors. In general this procedure is proper. The Government sells the leases to the bidder of the highest bonus and thus realizes additional income. Many leaseholders, however, discovered oil or gas shortly before the 5-year term was due to expire and assigned portions of their leases, which had not been drilled, to others, all parties being of the opinion that the production of oil or gas from part of the land would continue the life of the lease as to the assigned as well as the unassigned land. The General Land Office holds that this is not true, but that each assigned portion of the original lease is a separate lease and production from any portion is necessary to extend the term as to that portion. In other cases the owners of 5-year leases have contributed to the drilling of a well on the same structure as the lands in their leases, which drilling resulted in a discovery at too late a date to permit of the drilling of wells on their leases. |