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The Civil Aeronautics Authority is authorized to 

 "make recommendations to the Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture as to necessary meteorological service;" to advise 

 with the Bureau of Standards and other executive 

 agencies "in carrying forward such research and de- 

 velopment work as tends to create improved air navi- 

 gation facilities, aircraft, aircraft power plants, and 

 accessories;" and to exchange with foreign govern- 

 ments information relative to air navigation. (44 Stat. 

 568.) The Navy Department is similarly authorized 

 to exchange data with foreign almanac offices. (U. S. 

 C. 5:464.) The Navy Department is also empowered 

 to loan certain instruments, when not in use, to the 

 Signal Corps of the Army (U. S. C. 5:417) ; and the 

 pilot charts of the Hydrographic Office are required to 

 give due credit to the Weather Bureau which is in turn 

 to furnish whatever meteorological information is nec- 

 essary. (U.S.C. 5:458a.) 



The Public Health Service is authorized to cooper- 

 ate with other Federal agencies, such as the Bureau 

 of Mines and the Department of Agriculture; and 

 the Smith-Hughes Act provides for cooperative stud- 

 ies at the discretion of the Vocational Education Board 

 with the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, and 

 Labor, and with the Office of Education. Since tariff 

 questions are of vital concern to a number of Federal 

 agencies, the Tariff Commission is directed by its basic 

 law to act in appropriate matters "in conjunction and 

 cooperation with the Treasury Department, the De- 

 partment of Commerce, the Federal Trade Commission, 

 or any other departments, or independent establish- 

 ments of the Government * * * " (39 Stat. 795.) 

 The Federal Power Commission is similarly directed to 

 cooperate "with the executive departments and other 

 agencies of State or National Governments'" in its in- 

 vestigations. (41 Stat. 1063.) The National Bitiuni- 

 nous Coal Commission has authority to "assist educa- 

 tional, governmental, and other research institutions 

 in conducting research in coal * * * " (50 Stat. 

 72, 74) ; and under the Farm Tenant Act the Secretary 

 of Agriculture may cooperate with other agencies to 

 develop plans for a program of laud conservation and 

 utilization. (50 Stat. 522, 526.) 



In a different sphere, the Temiessee Valley Author- 

 ity is authorized to cooperate with national. State, dis- 

 trict, or comity experimental stations or demonstration 

 farms in testing fertilizers and fertilizer practices ; and 

 may also "arrange with farmers and farm organiza- 

 tions for large-scale practical use of the new forms of 



fertilizers under conditions permitting an accurate 

 measure of the economic return they produce." In the 

 preparation of surveys and plans for the development 



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of the Tennessee Valley, the cooperation of State and 

 local agencies is to be sought. 



The National Labor Kelations Board is specifically 

 enjoined from making appointments for statistical 

 work "where such service may be obtained from the 

 Department of Labor;" and the Geological Survey is 

 authorized to enter into cooperative agreements with 

 States and civil divisions in making topographic sur- 

 veys. 



Detail of Personnel 



Various research agencies of the Federal Govern- 

 ment may detail personnel to other agencies for special 

 work, and certain agencies may request or may accept, 

 if voluntarily offered, the services of employees of 

 other establishments. The Public Health Service, for 

 example, may detail medical officei'S and other scientific 

 personnel to cooperate with State authorities on re- 

 quest of the latter in making any of the investigations 

 authorized under the Social Security Act. At the same 

 time the facilities of the Service are available to "health 

 officers and scientists engaged in special study" and 

 research fellowships may be granted for this purpose. 

 (U. S. C. 42:232.) 



The Tennessee Valley Authority is empowered by 

 its organic act to — 



request the assistance and advice of any officer, agent, or em- 

 ployee of any executive department or of any independent 

 office of the United States, to enable the Corporation the better 

 to carry out its powers successfully, and as far as practicable 

 shall utilize the services of such officers, agents, and em- 

 ployees * * • 



The Federal Housing Administrator is similarly au- 

 thorized to "accept and utilize such voluntary and un- 

 compensated services, utilize such Federal officers and 

 employees, and, with' the consent of the State, such 

 State and local officers and employees * * * as 

 he may find necessary;" and a like provision is fomid 

 in most of the other legislation setting up emergency 

 agencies, such as the Rural Electrification Administra- 

 tion and the United States Housing Authority. 



The independent commissions, like the Federal 

 Trade Commission and the Federal Power Commission, 

 may have detailed to them such employees of other 

 governmental agencies as the President may direct. 

 The organic law of the Federal Trade Commission, for 

 example, provides that "the several departments and 

 bureaus of the Government when directed by the Presi- 

 dent * * * shall detail from time to time such 

 officials and employees to the commission as he may 

 direct." (38 Stat. 717, 722.) 



Grants-in-Aid 



More formal cooperative arrangements between Fed- 

 eral agencies and agencies of the States have been 



