59 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 262-JULY 3, 1945 until expended for carrying out projects (including the construction of transmission lines) or investigations previously or herein author- ized by Congress: Salaries and expenses (other than project offices): For expenses necessary during the fiscal year 1946, including personal services in the District of Columbia, in the administration and performance by other than project offices of Bureau of Reclamation functions, $3,000,000; to be available for the purposes, among others, specified under the head "Operation and maintenance administration", Bureau of Reclamation, in the Department of the Interior Appropriation Act, 1945, and reimbursable (1) as to expenditures for operation and main- tenance administration to the same extent as is provided under said head, and (2) as to other expenditures to the extent provided by sub- section O of section 4 of the Act of December 5, 1924 (43 U. S. C. 377): Provided,That in addition to the foregoing amount there shall be available for expenditure under this appropriation any sums trans- ferred thereto for work performed or to be performed for the benefit of specific projects or undertakings for which other funds or appro- priations are available: Provided further, That the unobligated balances on June 30, 1945, of appropriations heretofore made under the "Reclamation fund, special fund, construction, administrative expenses", and under the "General fund, construction, administrative expenses", shall no longer remain available for obligation after June 30, 1945; Projects: Gila project, Arizona, $550,000, from which expenditures may be made for land leveling, construction of farm ditches on units of public lands, production of soil-building crops, and the preparation of raw public lands for irrigation farming, any such expenditures to be charged into the construction costs to be repayable by the lands benefited, and any sums received from the sale of crops or otherwise as a result of these operations to be credited to such construction costs; Colorado-Big Thompson project, Colorado, $800,000; Palisades project, Idaho, $450,000; Sun River project, Montana, $60,000; Hungry Horse project, Montana, for work preliminary to construc- tion, as authorized by section 1 of the Act of June 5, 1944 (Public Law 329), $200,000; Deschutes project, Oregon, $450,000; Provo River project, Utah, $2,000,000; Shoshone project, Wyoming, Willwood division, $23,500; General investigations: For engineering and economic investigations of proposed Federal reclamation projects and surveys, investigations, and other activities relating to reconstruction, rehabilitation, exten- sions, 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 independently, or in cooperation with State agencies and other Federal agencies, includ- ing the Corps of Engineers, and the Federal Power Commission, $2,250,000, which may be used to execute detailed surveys, and to prepare construction plans and specifications: 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; Total, construction, from reclamation fund, $9,783,500. Total, from reclamation fund, $10,620,550. Boulder Canyon project: Not to exceed $1,050,000 shall be avail- able from power and other revenues for operation, maintenance, and replacements of the dam, power plant, and other facilities, of the 58 Stat. 487. Ante, p. 54. 58 Stat. 490. Projects. 58 Stat. 270 . 43 U..S. C ., Supp. IV, I 593a Oeneral investiga- tions. Boulder Canyon prolect. 341
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