Chapter 243. to Authorize the Secretary of Commerce to purchase land and to construct buildings and facilities suitable for radio research investigations
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CHAP. 243.— An Act to Authorize the Secretary of Commerce to purchase land and to construct buildings and facilities suitable for radio research investigations. February 20, 1931.[[H. R. 10652](/us/bill/71/hr/10652).][[Public, No. 700](/us/pl/71/700).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Radio research in vestigations.Purchase of land and construction of buildings for Bureau of Standards, authorized.
That the Secretary of Commerce be, and he is hereby, authorized to acquire, by purchase or otherwise, for the Bureau of Standards a parcel of land in the vicinity of the District of Columbia, not in excess of two hundred acres, provided a suitable site now owned by the Government is not available for the purpose, and to construct thereon buildings, facilities, and equipment suitable for experimental researches in the propagation and reception of radio signals and also to construct upon land now owned by the Government in the vicinity of the District of Columbia, which may be made available for that purpose by any department having jurisdiction thereof, buildings, facilities, and equipment suitable for an experimental radio Appropriation authorized.*Post*, p. 1564.transmitting station.
There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to carry out the foregoing purposes the sum of not to exceed $147,000. Approved, February 20, 1931.