water users' organizations for operation and maintenance, and incident to the sale of acquired lands or interests therein and public lands under reclamation withdrawal where permitted under the Federal Reclamation Laws, including giving information and advice to settlers and to water users' organizations on reclamation projects in the selection of lands, equipment, and livestock, the classification or reclassification of lands, the preparation of land for irrigation, the selection of crops, methods of irrigation and agricultural practice, and general farm management, the cost of which shall be charged to the general reclamation fund and shall not be charged as a part of the construction or operation and maintenance cost payable by the water users under the projects, $200,000; Limitation of ex- Limitation of expenditures: Under the provisions of this Act no penditures. greater sum shall be expended, nor shall the United States be obligated to expend during the fiscal year 1945, on any reclamation project appro- priated for herein, an amount in excess of the sum herein appro- priated therefor, nor shall the whole expenditures or obligations incurred for all of such projects for the fiscal year 1945 exceed the whole amount in the reclamation fund for the fiscal year; Interchange of ap- Interchange of appropriations: Ten per centum of the foregoing propriations. amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditures on the reclamation projects named; but not more than 10 per centum shall be added to the amount appropriated for any one of said projects, except that should existing works or the water supply for lands under cultiva- tion be endangered by floods or other unusual conditions, an amount sufficient to make necessary emergency repairs shall become available for expenditure by further transfer of appropriation from any of said projects upon approval of the Secretary; Constructionof des- Construction: For continuation of construction, and for general ignated projects. investigations and administrative expenses, of the following projects in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively, to be expended from the reclamation fund in the same manner and for the same objects Ankt, .48 of expenditure as specified under the caption "Bureau of Reclamation", under the head "Administrative provisions and limitations", but with- out regard to the amounts of the limitations therein set forth, all to be reimbursable under the reclamation law, and to remain available until expended: Palisades project, Idaho, $250,000; Deschutes project, Oregon, $2,250,000; General investiga- General investigations: For engineering and economic investiga- . tions of proposed Federal reclamation projects and surveys, investi- gations and other activities relating to reconstruction, rehabilitation, extensions, or financial adjustments of existing projects, and studies of water conservation and development plans, such investigations, surveys, and studies to be carried on by said Bureau either independ- ently, or in cooperation with State agencies and other Federal agencies, including the Corps of Engineers, and the Federal Power State, etc., coopera Commission, $450,000: Provided, That the expenditure of any sums from this appropriation for investigations of any nature requested by States, municipalities, or other interests shall be upon the basis of the State, municipality, or other interest advancing at least 50 per centum of the estimated cost of such investigations; Administrativ ex- Administrative expenses: For personal services (not to exceed $63,500 in the District of Columbia) and other expenses, $125,000; Total, construction, from reclamation fund, $3,075,000. Total from reclamation fund, $4,321,000. rBolder Canyon Boulder Canyon project: Not to exceed $950,000 shall be available from power and other revenues for operation, maintenance, and replacements of the dam, power plant, and other facilities, of the [58 STAT. 488 PUBLIC LAWS--CH. 298-JUNE 28,1944
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