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2319 A9811

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC LANDS

J. HARDIN PETERSON, Florida, Chairman JOHN R. MURDOCK, Arizona

FRED L. CRAWFORD, Michigan CLAIR ENGLE, California

WILLIAM LEMKE, North Dakota MONROE M. REDDEN, North Carolina FRANK A. BARRETT, Wyoming TOBY MORRIS, Oklahoma

DEAN P. TAYLOR, New York KEN REGAN, Texas

JAY LEFEVRE, New York LLOYD M. BENTSEN, JR., Texas

A. L. MILLER, Nebraska COMPTON I. WHITE, Idaho

WESLEY A. D’EWART, Montana WALTER S. BARING, Nevada

NORRIS POULSON, California REVA BECK BOSONE, Utah

JOHN SANBORN, Idaho FRED MARSHALL, Minnesota

JOHN P. SAYLOR, Pennsylvania HARRY P. O'NEILL, Pennsylvania WAYNE N. ASPINALL, Colorado

JOSEPH R. FARRINGTON, Hawaii JOHN E. MILES, New Mexico LOUIS B. HELLER, New York

E. L. BARTLETT, Alaska
A. FERNÓS-ISERN, Puerto Rico

GEORGE H. SOULE, Jr., Technical Consultant

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Statements of

James Boyd, Director, Bureau of Mines, Department of the Interior---

Robert S. Palmer, executive secretary, Colorado Mining Association.

J. Carson Adkerson, mining engineer -

Maxwell H. Elliott, acting general counsel, Federal Works Agency,

accompanied by Hervey Macomber...

S. 2105 as passed by the Senate and referred to the House Committee on

Public Lands..

Report on H. R. 6110, dated October 10, 1949, from the Department of the

Interior (H. R. 6110 is identical to S. 2105 as reported to the Senate by

the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs) -

Report on H. R. 6110, dated October 7, 1949, from the Munitions Board --

Report on H. R. 6110, dated October 7, 1949, from the General Services

Administration.-.

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APPENDIX

H. R. 6110 (81st Cong., 1st sess.), to stimulate exploration for and con-

servation of strategic and critical ores, metals, and minerals, and for

other purposes, introduced by Mr. Bennett of Michigan (exhibit 1)-----

S. 2105 (81st Cong., 1st sess.), to stimulate exploration for and conserva-

tion of strategic and critical ores, metals, and minerals, and for other

purposes, as reported to the Senate by the Committee on Interior and

Insular Affairs (exhibit 2)--

S. 2105, amendment to, offered by the Committee on Interior and Insular

Affairs (exhibit 3).

Senate Report No. 957, offered by the Committee on Interior and Insular

Affairs to accompany S. 2105 (exhibit 4) -

Senate debate on s. 2105 (exhibit 5) -

S. 2105, as reported to the House of Representatives by the Committee on

Public Lands (exhibit 6).

House Report No. 1416, offered by the Committee on Public Lands to ac-

company S. 2105 (exhibit 7).

House debate on motion to suspend the rules and pass S. 2105 (exhibit 8)..

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