10 UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES 
PREPARATION OF INDEX OF EMPLOYMENT 
Sec. 8. For the preparation of the Index of Employment there shall be made 
available to the Secretary of Labor, upon his request, statistics collected or com- 
piled by any executive department, independent commission, board, bureau, 
office, agency, or other establishment of the Government. The Secretary of 
Labor is further authorized to utilize, to such extent as he deems advisable, 
statistics collected or compiled by any State or political subdivision thereof, or 
by any private, industrial, commercial, banking, labor, or other association or 
enterprise, and to obtain such additional facts and statistics as he deems necessary 
for such purposes. 
ACCELERATION OF EMERGENCY CONSTRUCTION 
Sec. 9. For the purpose of preventing unemployment during periods of business 
depression and of permitting the Government to avail itself of opportunity for 
speedy, efficient, and economical construction during such periods the Secretary 
of War, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of Agriculture are 
directed to accelerate during such periods, to such extent as is deemed practicable, 
the prosecution of all public works within their control. 
ADVANCE PLANNING 
Sec. 10. It is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress to arrange the con- 
struction of public works, so far as practicable, in such manner as will assist in the 
stabilization of industry and employment through the proper timing of such 
construction, and that to further this object there shall be advance planning 
and detailed preparation of public works, to be accomplished (a) in the case of 
river and harbor and flood-contrel works and projects and public-building projects 
by means (1) of preliminary reports, made under the subsequent provisions of 
this act or existing law, as to the desirability of the project; and (2) of annual 
authorizations of projects, the total estimates for which are sufficiently in excess 
of the annual appropriations made for the work thereon to result in uncompleted 
projects being available for the expenditure. of public works emergency appro- 
priations when made; and (b), in the case of public roads projects, by means of 
advance approval of projects in accordance with the provisions of the Federal 
highway act, and amendments and supplements thereof, and of this act. 
PUBLIC-ROADS PROJECTS 
Suc. 11. (a) In addition to the projects authorized to be approved under the 
Federal highway act, and amendments and supplements thereof, the Secretary 
of Agriculture is authorized to approve emergency Federal-aid road projects for 
the construction, reconstruction, and maintenance of Federal-aid highways, the 
share of the United States in the cost of which is to be paid primarily out of public 
works emergency appropriations made for the purpose. Such emergency projects 
may be approved in advance of any such appropriation, but only to such extent 
as the Secretary of Agriculture deems advisable in order that uncompleted projects 
for the expenditure of money so appropriated may be immediately available at 
the time such appropriation 1s made. If the amount apportioned to the State of 
the public works emergency appropriation made for the purpose is insufficient to 
meet the share of the United States in the cost of all approved emergency projects 
within the State, the balance of the share of the United States shall be paid out 
of the amount apportioned to the State from any subsequent appropriations made 
for Federal-aid highways. 
(b) The approval of emergency projects for roads within a State shall be deemed 
a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of its pro- 
portional contribution to the cost of the projects only to the extent of the amount 
apportioned to the State and remaining unpaid of the public works emergency 
appropriation made for the purpose and the subsequent appropriations made for 
Federal-aid highways. 
(¢) The provision of the Federal highway act in respect of the apportionment 
of Federal-aid appropriations shall not apply to public works emergency appro- 
priations, but the Secretary of Agriculture may apportion such appropriations 
among all the States or in the State in the area or areas designated by Congress 
in such a way as may be fixed by Congress or shall in his judgment be best calcu- 
lated to prevent unemployment. 
(d) For the purpose of equalizing among the several States the amount of 
Federal funds apportioned under the Federal hischwav act. as amended and sup-