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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 473-JULY 2, 1942 Limitation of ex- penditures. Interchange of ap- propriations. Construction of designated projects. Ante, p. 531. General investiga- tions. Colorado River Ba- sin. Administrative ex- penses. Colorado River front work and levee system. 44 Stat. 1016. the general reclamation fund and shall not be charged as a part of the construction or operation and maintenance cost payable by the water users under the projects, $43,855; Limitation of expenditures: Under the provisions of this Act no greater sum shall be expended, nor shall the United States be obli- gated to expend during the fiscal year 1943, on any reclamation proj- ect appropriated for herein, an amount in excess of the sum herein appropriated therefor, nor shall the whole expenditures or obliga- tions incurred for all of such projects for the fiscal year 1943 exceed the whole amount in the reclamation fund for the fiscal year; Interchange of appropriations: Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditures on the reclamation projects named; but not more than 10 per centum shall be added to the amount appropriated for any one of said projects, except that should existing works or the water supply for lands under cultivation be endangered by floods or other unusual conditions, an amount sufficient to make necessary emergency repairs shall become available for expenditure by further transfer of appropria- tion from any of said projects upon approval of the Secretary of the Interior; Construction: For continuation of construction, and for general investigations and administrative expenses, of the following projects in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively, to be expended from the Reclamation Fund in the same manner and for the same objects of expenditure as specified for projects hereinbefore in this Act under the caption "Bureau of Reclamation", under the heading "Administrative provisions and limitations", but without regard to the amounts of the limitations therein set forth, all to be reim- bursable under the reclamation law, and to remain available until expended: Sun River project, Montana, $50,000; Deschutes project, Oregon, $100,000; Owyhee project, Oregon, $25,000; Hyrum project, Utah, $6,000; Kendrick project, Wyoming, $20,000; Riverton project, Wyoming. $724,840; General investigations: To enable the Secretary of the Interior. through the Bureau of Reclamation, to carry on engineering and economic investigations of proposed Federal reclamation projects, surveys for reconstruction, rehabilitation, or extensions of existing projects, and studies of water conservation and development plans, including Colorado River Basin investigations, such investigations, surveys, and studies to be carried on by said Bureau either inde- pendently, or, if deemed advisable by the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with State agencies and other Federal agencies, including the Corps of Engineers, National Resources Planning Board, and the Federal Power Commission, $375,000; For administrative expenses on account of the above projects, including personal services (not to exceed $80,000) and other expenses in the District of Columbia and personal services and other expenses in the field, $175,000; Total, construction, from reclamation fund, $1.475.840. Total, from reclamation fund, $2,647,060. To defray the cost of operating and maintaining the Colorado River front work and levee system adjacent to the Yuma Federal irrigation project in Arizona and California, subject only to section 4 of the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes", approved January 21 1927 (44 Stat. 1010), as amended by the Act of July 1,1940 (54 Stat. 708) $47,895. 534 [56 STAT.

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