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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 252-JUNE 30, 1939 Composition of Board, fiscal year 1940. Apportionment and distribution of funds. Restriction on use. Allocation of funds to other Federal agencies for operation of designated projects. Presfao. Limitation on ad- ministrative expenses. Employment of nonrelief persons re- stricted. Work forbidden un- less funds for comple- tion allocated; excep- tions. Non-Federal proj- ects, requirements. Rules and regula- tions by head of agency. Limitation on amount for construc- tion of buildings. 1940. On and after July 1, 1939, and until June 30, 1940, said Board shall be composed of three members to be appointed by the Presi- dent from widely separated sections of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Total appropriations, $1,755,600,000. GENERAL AND SPECIAL PROVISIONS SEC. 10. (a) Funds appropriated in this joint resolution to the various Federal agencies shall be so apportioned and distributed over the period ending June 30, 1940, and shall be so administered during such period as to constitute the total amount that will be furnished to such agencies during such period for the purposes herein set forth. (b) The funds made available by this joint resolution shall be used only for work relief or relief for persons in need except as otherwise specifically provided herein. SEC. 11. (a) The Commissioner is authorized to allocate not to exceed $60,000,000 to other Federal agencies for the operation, under such rules and regulations as the Commissioner may prescribe, of projects of the type specified in subsection (b) of section 1 which are within the scope of the functions usually carried out by such agencies, including administrative expenses of such agencies incident to such operation: Provided, That not to exceed 4 per centum of the total amount so allocated to any such agency shall be used for such administrative expenses: Provided further, That no project shall be prosecuted under any allocation under this subsection upon which the percentage of nonrelief persons employed exceeds 10 per centum of the total number of persons employed. (b) No Federal construction project, except flood control and water conservation projects authorized under other law, shall be undertaken or prosecuted under the appropriations in this joint resolution unless and until there shall have been allocated and irrevocably set aside Federal funds sufficient for its completion. (c) No non-Federal project shall be undertaken or prosecuted under appropriations under this joint resolution (except under sec- tion 4) unless and until the sponsor has made a written agreement to finance such part of the entire cost thereof as the head of the agency, if the agency administers sponsored projects, determines under the circumstances is an adequate contribution taking into consideration the financial ability of the sponsor. The head of the agency shall prescribe rules and regulations relating to the valuation of contri- butions in kind by sponsors of projects through furnishing the use of their own facilities and equipment and the services of their own employees, which shall also allow credit only to the extent that the furnishing of such contributions represents a financial burden which is undertaken by the sponsors on account of Work Projects Adminis- tration projects, or other sponsored projects. SEC. 12. None of the funds made available by this joint resolution shall be expended on the construction of any building (1) the total estimated cost of which, in the case of a Federal building, exceeds $50,000, or (2) the portion of the total estimated cost of which payable from Federal funds, in the case of a non-Federal building, exceeds $52,000, unless the building is one (a) for which the project has been approved by the President on or prior to July 1, 1939, or for which an issue of bonds has been approved at an election held, on or prior to such date, or (b) for the completion of which funds have been allocated and irrevocably set aside under prior relief appropriation Acts. 932 [53 STAT.

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