57 STAT.] 78TH OONG. , 1 ST SESS.-CH. 219-JULY 12, 1943 pendently, or in cooperation with State agencies and other Federal agencies, including the Corps of Engineers, and the Federal Power Commission, $350,000: 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; Administrative expenses: For personal services (not to exceed $57,500 in the District of Columbia) and other expenses, $75,000; Total, from reclamation fund, $2,350,800. To defray the cost of operating and maintaining the Colorado River front work and levee system adjacent to the Yuma Federal irrigation project in Arizona and California, and to defray the cost of other necessary protection works along the Colorado River between said Yuma project and Boulder Dam, as authorized by the Act of July 1, 1940 (54 Stat. 708), $75,000. Colorado River Development Fund (expenditure account): For continuation and extension of studies and investigations by the Bureau of Reclamation for the formulation of a comprehensive plan for the utilization of waters of the Colorado River system, as author- ized by section 2 of the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act, approved July 19, 1940 (54 Stat. 774), $200,000 from the Colorado River Development Fund (holding account), to remain available until expended, which amount shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $5,000) and in the field and for all the other objects of expenditures specified for projects herein- before included in this Act under the caption "Bureau of Reclama- tion", under the heading "Administrative provisions and limitations", but without regard to the amounts of the limitations therein set forth. Protection of project works (national defense): For the employ- ment of civilian guards and other necessary expenses, and for pro- tective devices such as floodlights, gates, and barricades for the pro- tection against sabotage and other depredations of any and all dams, powerhouses, and other structures and works whatsoever, heretofore or hereafter constructed by the Bureau of Reclamation, which in the opinion of the Secretary require such protection, $680,000: Provided, That the Secretary may, in his discretion, enter into agreements with other Federal agencies or with States, counties, irrigation, construc- tion, or reclamation districts or other political subdivisions or water users' associations for the protection of any such works and for reimbursement from this appropriation for amounts expended by them in furnishing protection for any such works. COLORADO RIVER DAM FUND Boulder Canyon project: For the continuation of construction of the Boulder Dam and incidental works in the main stream of the Colorado River at Black Canyon, to create a storage reservoir, and of a complete plant and incidental structures suitable for the fullest economic development of electrical energy from the water discharged from such reservoir; to acquire by proceedings in eminent domain, or otherwise, all lands, rights-of-way, and other property necessary for such purpses; and for incidental operations, as au rized by the Boulder Canyon Project Act, approved December 21 1928 (43.. . C., ch. 12A) $775,000, to be immediately available and to remain avail- able untii advanced to the Colorado Biver Dam Fund; and there shall also be available from power and other revenues not to exceed 900,000 for operation, mainenance, and replacements of the Boulder Dam, 475 State, etc., cooper- tion. Administrative ex- penses. Colorado River front work and levee system. Colorado River De- velopment Fund. 48U. SC .O.1 Ane; p. 472. Protection of project works. Agreements with other Federal agen- oies, etc. Construction, etc. Acquision of lands. 45 Stat. 1057.
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