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WASHINGTON
BY MARY LEE COUNCIL
Secretary to E. L. (Bob) Bartlett, Delegate to Congress from Alaska
Appropriations made available tor
the 1955 fiscal year for expenditure
in Alaska in the sum of $103,770,691
represent a 26 percent cut below
1951 fiscal year apropriations and
a 60 percent reduction below 1953
fiscal year appropriations made
available in 1952.
The Alaska program earmarks
$12,851,521 for the Interior Depart
ment, $25,123,500 for the Defense
Department, $16,517,126 for the Com
merce Department, $1,695,000 for
the Treasury, $291,300 for the Jud
iciary. $1,376,700 for Justice, $1.
317,3S0 for the Departments of
Health, Education and Welfare, $1,
199,000 for the Post Office Depart
ment and $7,339,051 for Agriculture.
The 1953 fiscal year appropriations
had totalled $258,752,516 and the
1951 fiscal year $110,217,298.
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT
The total for the Interior Depart
ment of $12 million plus is approx
imately $20 million less than the
$62,110,110 appropriated for the 1951
fiscal year and $25 million less than
the appropriation of $67,792,177 for
the 1953 fiscal year. It inculdes
$9V» million for the Alaska Public
Works program, $2,900,000 for the
Alaska Railroad. $S million for con
struction of roads, $3l» million for
road maintenance. $781,600 for care
of Alaska's mentally ill. $18,000 for
legislative expenses, and $97,100 for
the Governor’s office, all under the
Office of Territories.
In addition. $10.311,0S1 was appro
priated for the Bureau of Indian
Affairs, $93S,276 for the Rureau of
Land Management. $2,107,117 for
the Bureau of Reclamation, $1,750,
000 for the Geological Survey, $132,
510 for the Bureau of Mines. $1,
586,310 for the Fish and Wildlife
Service and $593,227 for the Nation
al Park Service.
Of the total of $1,586,310 for the
Fish and Wildlife Service. $800,000
is earmarked for fish management
and $2S2,000 for game management.
The rest will go for predatory con
trol in the sum of $66,800; mammal
and bird reservations. $52,200; in
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vestigations of fish ami wildlife re
sourses, $246,440; construction, $75
000; and general administration,
$63,900.
Eighteen projects have been ap
proved for allocation of funds under
the $9% million public works pro
gram: Anvik, two for Juneau. Ne
nana, Seldovia, Fort Yukon, Skag
way. three for Anchorage, Nome,
Kake. Haines. Petersburg, Sitka,
Valdez, Fairbanks and the Univer
sity of Alaska.
The road construction funds for
1955 of $8 million are $6,600,000
less than appropriated for the 1954
fiscal year- The 1955 fiscal year
road program includes $300,000 for
preparing plans, $800,000 for re
; construction, $700,000 for the Cop
per River Highway, $300,000 for
the Taylor Highway. $2 million for
the Richardson Highway, $1,750,000
for the Alaska Highway, $114 mil
lion lor the Denali Highway, $400.
000 for local farm and industrial
roads, and $250,000 for the Anchor
I age-Elmendorf alternate through
route.
The total of $1,750,000 for the
Geological Survey represents $650,
000 tor topographic surveys and
mapping. $800,000 for geological and
mineral surveys and mapping, $275,
000 for water resourse investiga
tions. $10,000 for land classification
and $15,000 for supervision of min
ing and oil and gas leases.
The Bureau of Land Management
total of $938,276 earmarked $77,600
for lease and disposal of lands and
mineral resourses, $212,983 for land
use and disposal. $82,585 for forest
management, $242,108 for fire pro
tection. $270,000 for cadastral sur
veys. $15,000 for maintenance of
physical facilities and $88,000 for
general administration.
Th National Park Service funds
in the amount of $593,227 will go to
management and protection, $100,
855; maintenance and rehabilita
tion of physical facilities, $109,772;
and construction of roads and trails,
$382,600.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Congress appropriated $25,123,500
for defense activities in Alaska, in
cluding $86,600 for navigation main
tenance work by the Army Engin
eers. $109,900 for channel dredging
at Kodiak by the Engineers, $5,279.
000 for Alaska Communication Sys
tem operation, maintenance and con
struction. $6,059,000 for Army public
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works construction, $719,000 for
Navy construction and $12,870,000
tor Air Force construction.
COMMERCE DEPARTMENT
The hulk of the appropriations of
$16,547,236 to the Commerce Depart
ment for Its Alaska activities goes
to the Civil Aeronautics Adminis
tration for salaries and expenses
in the amount of $10,487,136, $845,
100 for air navigation aids, $225,000
for th federal aid airport program
and $600,000 for operation and main
tenance of the Anchorage and Fair
banks airports.
The remaining Commerce funds
are earmarked for the Civil Aeron
autics Board in the amount of $50,
000; the Bureau of Public Roads
for forest highways, $t,300,000; the
Coast and Geodetic Survey ,$1,214,
000; and the Weather Bureau, $1,
826,000.
HEALTH, EDUCATION
A total amount of $1,347,380 will
be available for health purposes in
Alaska through appropriations made
available to the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare.
The major portion will go to the
disease and sanitation control pro
gram in the sum of $1,125,000. The
remaining funds are divided be
tween the Children's Bureau for
maternal and child health, $72,647;
crippled children, $65,759; child
welfare, $36,474; and( the tuber
culosis control grant of $47,500.
ALASKA LEGISLATION
Of the 23 acts approved by the
Congress, nine are so-called public
Dills and 14 are private measures.
The first category includes legis
lation permitting appointment of
deputy United States Commission
ers in Alaska, changing the bound
ary between the Second and Fourth
Divisions to conform with natural
boundary lines: extending the Fed
eral Declaratory Judgments Act
to Alaska: permitting the regis
tration of judments in or from the
the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska: liberalizing the Small
Tract Act; extending the Alaska
Public Works program for an add
itional four years until June 30,
1959.
Other legislation affecting Al
aska enacted into law during the
83rd Congress included bill to trans
fer Indian hospitals from the In
terion Department to the Public
Health Service: to allow the Terri
tory of Alaska to acquire federal
surplus personal property until Dec
ember 31. 1956, without cost or
transfer of funds: to increase to
100,000 acres in Alaska the amount
of public land which any one per
son or association may hold under
oil and gas leases, to increase the
amount which may be held under
oil and gas option to 200,000 acres
and to enlarge the time that such
option may extend to three years;
to authorize the payment of ex
penses of round trip travel and
transportation tor civilian govern
ment employees and their families
between tour of duty overseas for
the rpose of taking leave: and
to allow non-profit organizations in
the Territory and its political sub
divisions to purchase or lease up
to 640 acres for public purposes.
In addition, the Congress passed
an omnibus navigation and flood
control bill authorizing construc
tion of projects throughout the
country including 11 for Alaska in
the authorized total of $7,420,400.
These include a flood control pro
ject for Gold Creek at Juneau, and
navigation projects at Seward. Val
dez, Sitka, Kodiak. Dry Pass, Neva
Strait. Petersburg, Pelican, Ketchi
kan and Rocky Pass.
Through representations made by
the Defense Department and Dele
gate Rarlett, the Congress restored
the station allowances for subsis
tence and quarters for residents
of the territories serving in their
home territories with the armed
forces- Such allowances had been
denied such persons in 1953 while
continuing them for non-residents
serving in the territories.
In passing the omnibus bill crea
ting additional federal judgeships
throughout the country, the Con
gress failed to include the long
sought second federal judgeship for
the Third Division in Alaska
Alaska Statehood was approved
by the House Interior and Insular
Affairs Committee in June of last
year and by the Senate companion
committee on February 24 of this
year. However, the House measure
was locked up in the Rules Com
mittee . On April 1 the Senate com
bined the Alaska and Hawaii state
hood bills into one measure, assign
ed to it the Hawaii House number
and sent it back to the lower house
where it died in the Rules Com
mittee through refusal of the com
mittee to send the measure to con
ference.
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