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PUBLIC LAW 88-511-AUG. 30, 1964
[78 STAT.
GKNEKAI. I N V E S T I G A T I O N S
16 USC 661 note
For engineering and economic investigations of proposed Federal reclamation projects and studies of water conservation and development plans and activities preliminary to the reconstruction, rehabilitation and betterment, financial adjustment, or extension of existing projects, including not to exceed $450,000 for investigations of projects in Alaska, to remain available until expended, $11,404,000, of which $10,054,000 shall be derived from the reclamation fund and $500,000 shall be derived from the Colorado Kiver development fund: Provided, That none of this appropriation shall be used for more than one-half of the cost of an investigation requested by a State, municipality, or other interest: Provided further, That $870,000 of this appropriation shall be transferred to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service for studies, investigations, and reports thereon as required by the Fish and Wildlife Coordination s^^^ Qf;^958 (72 Stat. 563-565) to provide that wildlife conservation shall receive equal consideration and be coordinated with other features of water-resource development programs of the Bureau of Reclamation. CONSTRUCTION AND R E H A B I L I T A T I O N
For construction and rehabilitation of authorized reclamation projects or parts thereof (including power transmission facilities) and for other related activities, as authorized by law, to remain available until expended, $185,616,500, of which $83,030,000 shall be derived from the reclamation fund: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to initiate the construction of transmission facilities within those areas covered by power wheeling service contracts which include provision for service to Federal establishments and preferred customers, except those transmission facilities for which construction funds have been heretofore appropriated, those facilities which are necessary to carry out the terms of such contracts or those facilities for which the Secretary of the Interior finds the wheeling agency is unable or unwilling to provide for the integration of Federal projects or for service to a Federal establishment or preferred customer: Provided further, That not to exceed $2,000,000 as proposed in Senate Document 89, Eighty-eighth Congress, for maintaining suitable water quality in the Colorado River shall be nonreimbursable: Provided further. That no funds shall be made available under this appropriation for the construction in Contra Costa County, California, of any portion of the interceptor drain in connection with the San Luis Unit which terminates at any point east of Port Chicago: Provided further, That not to exceed $26,000 shall be available for reimbursement to the city of Malta, Montana, for the cost of improvements to street? and appurtenant facilities adjoining property under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior in that city to be nonreimbursable and nonreturnable: Provided further. That not to exceed $150,000 of funds made available for improvement of access roads in the Weber Basin project area shall be nonreimbursable. OPERATION AND
MAINTENANCE
For operation and maintenance of reclamation projects or parts thereof and other facilities, as authorized by law; and for a soil and moisture conservation program on lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Reclamation, pursuant to law, $40,219,000, of which $30,758,000 shall be derived from the reclamation fund and $1,605,000 shall be derived from the Colorado River Dam fund: Provided,
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