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52 STAT.] 75TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CH. 554 -JUNE 21, 1938 Act, 1939, for administrative expenses for the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works shall be available for administra- tive expenses thereof during such fiscal year for the purposes and under the conditions set forth in such Act for such Administration, except that the condition therein that such administrative expenses are in "connection with the liquidation of said Administration" is hereby rescinded and both amounts are hereby made available, in addition to the other purposes, for the purchase and exchange of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work and in the District of Columbia in a total amount not to exceed $75,000 but not more than $1,500 thereof shall be so expended for such purchase and exchange for use in such District. And the Ad- ministrator shall reserve from the appropriation in this title an adequate amount for administrative expenses of the Administration for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, for the completion (except liquidation) of the activities of such Administration, subject to authorization hereafter by annual appropriation acts for the utiliza- tion thereof. (g) Not more than $400,000,000 may be used, from the moneys realized from the sale of securities acquired with funds made avail- able by this title or with the proceeds of such securities, for the making of further loans hereunder. (h) No Federal construction project, except flood control and water conservation or utilization projects now under actual construc- tion, shall be undertaken or prosecuted under the appropriation in this title unless and until there shall have been allocated and irrevocably set aside Federal funds sufficient for its completion- and no moneys for a non-Federal project shall be paid from the funds made available by this title to any public agency unless and until adequate provision has been made, or in the opinion of the Administrator is assured, for financing such part of the entire cost thereof as is not to be supplied from Federal funds. SEC. 202. The Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works is hereby continued to the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and is hereby authorized to continue to perform all functions which it is authorized to perform on the date of enactment hereof. All provisions of law existing on the date of enactment hereof, and relating to the availability of funds for carrying out any of the functions of such Administration are hereby continued to the end of such fiscal year, except that the date specified in the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1936, as amended by section 201 of the Public Works Administration Extension Act of 1937, prior to which, in the determination of the Administrator, projects for which moneys made available by such Act were authorized to be granted, can be substantially completed is hereby changed from "July 1, 1939" to "July 1, 1940". SEC. 203. That portion of section 203 of the Public Works Administration Extension Act of 1937, which reads as follows, is hereby repealed: "; and after the date of the enactment of this joint resolution no allotment shall be made by the Administrator for any project the application for which has not been approved by the examining divisions of the Administration prior to such date . SEC. 204. Section 206 of the Public Works Administration Exten- sion Act of 1937 is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 206. No new applications for loans or grants for non-Fed- eral projects shall be received by the Administration after September 30, 1938: Provided, That this section shall not apply to applications amendatory of applications for projects received prior to October 1, 1938, and such applications shall be confined to projects, which, in the determination of the Administrator, can be started and completed 36525°-38 -52 817 Ante, p. 434. Certain conditions rescinded. Administrative ex- penses for fiscal year 1940. Funds from sale of securities, etc., use of portion for making further loans. Work forbidden un- less funds for comple- tion allocated; excep- tions. Non-Federal proj- ects. Continuation of Ad- ministration to June 30, 1941. Provisions of law extended. 49 Stat. 1608, 50 Stat. 357. Approval of applica- tions; provision re- pealed. 50 Stat. 357. 50 Stat. 358. Loans or grants for non-Federal projects; time limitation on new applications. Proviso. Exceptions.