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FEDERAL
VOLUME 2

REGSTER
1934

P arted
NUMBER 261

Washington, Saturday, October 16, 1937
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
National Bituminous Coal Commission.
Order No. 56
A n O rder R e q u ir in g E ach D istr ic t B oard W i t h i n M i n i m u m P rice A reas N u m ber s T hree , F our , F ive , S i x , S e ve n , N in e and T e n to D e te r m in e F ro m C o st D ata S u b m itte d b y th e P roper S tatistical B ur e a u o f th e C o m m is s io n th e W eighted A verage of t h e T otal C osts of th e A scer tain
able T onnage P roduced i n T h e ir R espective D istr ict s i n the C alendar Y ear 1936, and to A d ju st S u c h W eighted A verage C osts so D e term ined as M a y B e N ecessary to G ive E ffect to C hang es W h ic h M a y H ave B e e n E stab
lished S in c e J a n u a r y 1,1936, and R estr icting P u b l ic a t io n of I n fo r m a tio n R elative T hereto
Pursuant to act of Congress entitled An Act to regulate interstate commerce in bituminous coal, and for other pur poses Public, No. 48, 75th Cong., 1st sess., known as the Bituminous Coal Act of 1937, the National Bituminous Coal Commission hereby orders and directs:
1. That each District Board within Minimum Price Areas Numbers Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Nine and Ten shall, as soon as possible, determine the weighted average of the total costs of the ascertainable tonnage produced in its dis trict in the calendar year 1936, using as the basis for such determination cost data hereinafter made available to it.
Each District Board shall adjust the average costs so de termined, as may be necessary to give effect to any changes in wage rates, hours of employment, or other factors sub stantially affecting costs, exclusive of seasonal changes, so as to reflect as accurately as possible any change or changes which may have been established since January 1, 1936.
2. That the Secretary of the Commission shall immediately transmit to each District Board the proper statistical bu reaus compilation o f the cost data furnished, pursuant to Order No. 151 of the Commission, by the producers whose mines are located within the district.
3. That the compilations of cost data submitted by the proper statistical bureaus of the Commission to the respec tive District Boards and the data of the District Boards upon which adjustments of the average costs are to be made, shall be deemed confidential and shall not be made public.
4. That on or before October 27th, 1937, each District Board shall submit to the Commission such determinations and all computations upon which they are based in order that the Commission, after review, may proceed to a deter mination of the weighted averages of the total costs of the tonnages of Minimum Price Areas Numbers Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Nine and Ten.
2 P. R. 1477 D I.

The Secretary of the Commission shall forthwith mail a copy of this order to the Secretaries of the respective Dis trict Boards within Minimum Price Areas Numbers Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Nine and Ten.
By order of the Commission.
Dated this 13th day o f October, 1937.
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F. W itch er M cC u l l o u g h , Secretary.
F. R. Doc. 37-3037; Filed, October 15,1937; 11:56 a. m.

Order No. 57
A n O rder P ro vid ing for a P u b l ic H earing to R eceive E v i
dence o n th e P roposed C lassific a tio n s of C oals o f B i t u
m in o u s C oal P roducers B oard for D istr ict N um b er 10, and to R eceive E vid ence fr o m P rotestants and O ther I nterested P arties C o n c e r n in g th e P roposed C l a s s if i
c a tio n of C oals i n S aid D istr ict
Pursuant to Act of Congress, entitled An Act to regulate interstate commerce in bituminous coal, and for other purposes Public, No. 48, 75th Cong., 1st sess., known as the Bituminous Coal Act of 1937, the National Bituminous Coal Commission directed, pursuant to Orders No. 38 and No. 43,1 that all District Boards propose initial classifications of coals of all code members within their respective districts, classified in conformity with the standards, methods of ap plying such standards and rules of procedure established by the Commission, and provided that a hearings should be held fo r the purpose o f receiving evidence to enable the Commission to establish the initial classifications of coals of all code members within the several .districts.
At the hearing held pursuant to Orders No. 38 and No.
43, protests were made in the matter of the proposed initial classification of Bituminous Coal Producers Board for Dis trict Number 10. The Commission, therefore, orders and directs:
That a hearing be held in the City o f Washington, D. C., commencing at 9 oclock A. M , on the 15th day of October, 1937, at the Hearing Room of the Commission in the Walker Building, before a Board o f Examiners designated by the Commission, fo r the purpose of receiving evidence from all interested parties to enable the Commission to establish the initial classification of coals of all code members within Dis trict Number 10, and that said hearing shall continue and be open for the purpose of receiving evidence on the subject from all interested parties until October 22nd, 1937.
The Secretary of the Commission shall forthwith give notice of the time, place, and purpose of the hearing to be held under this order by publishing a copy of this order for two days in a newspaper of general circulation in District Number 10, and by mailing a copy of this order to the Sec12 F. R. 1688, 2149 D I.

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