140 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE 
In the Tennessee Valley area, three-way agreements between the 
Bureau of Fisheries, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the States 
of Alabama, Tennessee, and North Carolina have been made effective 
or are being negotiated. Under such agreements the T. V. A. has 
established and built hatcheries and rearing facilities which the 
Bureau is to operate. The fish produced are to be distributed by 
the States in that part of the Tennessee Valley area which are in- 
cluded within the respective State boundaries. 
The work with the National Park Service has continued in a con- 
structive way and at the close of the year the Park Service was con- 
structing a new hatchery at Glacier Park with subsequent operations 
to be managed by the Bureau. 
In view of the tremendous responsibility upon the Forest Service 
of the Department of Agriculture for the maintenance of fishing in 
the national forests, the Bureau has enjoyed unusual cooperation 
with that agency. A new trout-rearing unit was under construction 
in the Allegheny National Forest in Pennsylvania, under plans de- 
veloped and approved by the Bureau with the expectation that it 
would be operated by this Bureau upon completion. 
The State of North Dakota Fish and Game Department donated 
the site for a new hatchery at Valley City. At St. Louis, Mo., the 
city officials have approved the construction, at no cost to the Bureau, 
of a modern hatchery and service building in, the Forest Park hatch- 
ery. This series of ponds was taken over by the Bureau for opera- 
tion shortly before the start of the fiscal year 1939 and the results 
have been most favorable. The State of Minnesota donated a tract 
of land for a hatchery at New London and furnished the services 
of surveyors and engineers in acquiring additional property. The 
site for a new hatchery, at Farlington, Kans., was more easily ac- 
quired by reason of the donation of water rights to a State-owned 
lake. The State of Ohio purchased and donated to the Bureau a 
Sie location for the new hatchery to be constructed in that 
tate. 
CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES 
At the start of the fiscal year there was being undertaken an exten- 
sive program of hatchery development and improvement financed by 
an allocation of $808,500 from the Public Works Administration, and 
$500,050 from the Works Progress Administration. 
These funds were allocated to more than 70 different field projects, 
involving complete rehabilitation of some of the older hatcheries and 
enlargement and improvement of the newer establishments. The 
work involved replacement of pipe lines or complete construction of 
new water-supply systems; construction, repair, and improvement of 
buildings; construction of ponds; installation of new equipment; 
and general landscaping. In some instances there was a 100-percent 
increase in the productive capacity of a station. The Public Works 
Administration funds were largely used for the purchase of mate- 
rials, supplies, and equipment; while the labor, practically all from 
relief sources, was a contribution. from the Works Progress Adminis- 
tration alletment. 
The principal development of an entirely new nature was the con- 
struction of a pondfish hatchery at the Roy Inks Dam on the lower 
