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Established by an Act of Congress in 1879 and charged with responsibility for "classification of the public lands, and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and products of the national domain," the U. S. Department of the Interiors Geological Survey has been the Nations principal source of information about its physical resources the configuration and character of the land surface, the composition and structure of the underlying rocks, and the quality, extent, and distribution of water and mineral resources. Although primarily a research and fact-finding agency, it has responsibility also for the classification of Federal mineral lands and waterpower sites, and since 1926 it has been responsible for the supervision of oil and mining operations authorized under leases on Federal land. From the outset, the Survey has been concerned with critical land and resource problems. Often referred to as the Mother of Bureaus, many of its activities led to the formation of new organizations where a management or developmental function evolved. These included the Reclamation Service (1902), the Bureau of Mines (1910), the Federal Power Commission (1920), and the Grazing Service (1934, since combined with other functions as the Bureau of Land Management). Mrs. Rabbitts summary of the Surveys history in the following pages brings out well the development of these diverse activities and the Surveys past contributions to national needs related to land and resources.… (plus d'informations)
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The United States Geological Survey was established on March 3, 1879, in the closing hours of the final session of the 45th Congress, when the bill appropriating money for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1879, was signed by President Rutherford B. Hayes.
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The challenge is sobering indeed, but it is the same challenge as that described by the first Director, for the Nation "to utilize with the highest technical skill and with the utmost scientific economy, all elements of national wealth," a challenge now grown infinitely more complex by the growth of the Nation and the growth of knowledge during the intervening years. [from the 1981 edition]
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Established by an Act of Congress in 1879 and charged with responsibility for "classification of the public lands, and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and products of the national domain," the U. S. Department of the Interiors Geological Survey has been the Nations principal source of information about its physical resources the configuration and character of the land surface, the composition and structure of the underlying rocks, and the quality, extent, and distribution of water and mineral resources. Although primarily a research and fact-finding agency, it has responsibility also for the classification of Federal mineral lands and waterpower sites, and since 1926 it has been responsible for the supervision of oil and mining operations authorized under leases on Federal land. From the outset, the Survey has been concerned with critical land and resource problems. Often referred to as the Mother of Bureaus, many of its activities led to the formation of new organizations where a management or developmental function evolved. These included the Reclamation Service (1902), the Bureau of Mines (1910), the Federal Power Commission (1920), and the Grazing Service (1934, since combined with other functions as the Bureau of Land Management). Mrs. Rabbitts summary of the Surveys history in the following pages brings out well the development of these diverse activities and the Surveys past contributions to national needs related to land and resources.
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