63 STAT.]
81ST CONG. ,
1sT SESS.-CH. 688-OCT. 13,1949
RIVERS AND HARBORS
Maintenance and improvement of existing river and harbor works:
For the preservation and maintenance of existing river and harbor
works, and for the prosecution of such projects heretofore authorized
as may be most desirable in the interests of commerce and navigation;
for surveys of northern and northwestern lakes and other boundary
and connecting waters as heretofore authorized, including the prepara-
tion, correction, printing, and issuing of charts and bulletins, and the
investigation of lake levels; for prevention of obstructive and inju-
rious deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York
City; for expenses of the California Debris Commission in carrying
on the work authorized by the Act approved March 1, 1893, as
amended (33 U. S. C. 661, 678, and 683); for removing sunken vessels
or craft obstructing or endangering navigation as authorized by law;
for operating and maintaining, keeping in repair, and continuing in
use without interruption any lock, canal (except the Panama Canal),
canalized river, or other public works for the use and benefit of navi-
gation belonging to the United States; for payment annually of tuition
tees of not to exceed one hundred student officers of the Corps of
Engineers at civil technical institutions under the provisions of sec-
tion 127a of the National Defense Act, as amended (10 U. S . C. 535);
for examinations, surveys, and contingencies of rivers and harbors t
for the execution of detailed investigations and the preparation of
plans and specifications for projects heretofore or hereafter author-
ized; for examination of estimates of appropriations in the field; for
printing and binding and office supplies and equipment required in
the Office of the Chief of Engineers to carry out the purposes of this
appropriation, including such printing, either during a recess or ses-
sion of Congress, of surveys authorized by law, and such surveys as
may be printed during a recess of Congress shall be printed, with
illustrations, as documents of the next succeeding session of Congress:
Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for
any preliminary examination, survey, project, or estimate not author-
ized by law; $197,489,690, of which sum the amount of $34,270 shall
be expended for a small boat harbor at Hastings, Minnesota: Provided
further, That of the amount herein appropriated, $478,520 shall be
for repayments of advances made under the provisions of section 11,
Act of March 3, 1925 (Public Law 585, Sixty-eighth Congress, 43
Stat. 1197): Provided further, That from this appropriation the
Secretary of the Army may, in his discretion and on the recommenda-
tion of the Chief of Engineers based on the recommendation by the
Board of Rivers and Harbors in the review of a report or reports
authorized by law, expend such sums as may be necessary for the
maintenance of harbor channels provided by a State, municipality
or other public agency, outside of harbor lines and serving essential
needs of general commerce and navigation, such work to be subject
to the conditions recommended by the Chief of Engineers in his report
or reports thereon: Provided further, That not to exceed $5,000 of
the amount herein appropriated shall be available for the support and
maintenance of the Permanent International Commission of the Con-
gresses of Navigation and for the payment of the expenses of the
properly accredited delegates of the United States to the meeting of
the Congresses and of the Commission: Provided further,That from
this appropriation not to exceed $1,200,000 shall be available for
transfer to the Secretary of the Interior for expenditure for the pur-
poses of and in accordance with the provisions of the Act of August 8,
1946 (60 Stat. 932), and the Act of August 14, 1946 (60 Stat. 1080 :
Provided further, That the maintenance funds appropriated herein
847
California D6bris
Commission.
27 Stat. 507.
Student offics.
41 Stat. 785.
10 U. 8. 0., SBpp.
II, i 3S.
Printing and bind-
ing.
Unauthorized sur-
veys, etc.
Hastings, Minn.
Repayment of ad-
vances.
33U. .C. , 8l.
Harbor channels.
Permanent Interna-
tional Cormmisson of
the Congresses of
Navigation.
Transfer of funds.
16U.S.0.it756
757, 661-666;
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H. 661 note, 666a.
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