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 PUBLIC LAWS--CHS. 13, 14 -MAR. 6, 10 , 1943 [CHAPTER 13] March 6, 1943 [S. 739] [Public Law 7] 56 Stat. 50 . 10 U. S. C., Supp. II, § 535 note. Army of the U. S. Detail of personnel as students, etc. Lease of real estate. March 10, 1943 [H. R. 8391 [Public Law 8] The Columbia Basin Project Act. 16U.B.C. §i835- 835c. Purposes. 49 Stat. 11040. 53 Stat. 1187 . 43U. S.C. §485k. Prerequisites to ex- penditure of funds. Appraisals and re- appraisals. AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the attendance of personnel of the Army of the United States as students at educational institutions and other places". Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Public Law Numbered 435, Seventy-seventh Congress, approved February 6, 1942, is hereby amended to read as follows: "That during the present war and for six months thereafter and notwithstanding other provisions of existing law. personnel of all components of the Army of the United States may be detailed as students at technical, professional, and other educational institutions, or as students, observers, or investigators at industrial plants, hos- pitals, and other places, and all necessary expenses incident thereto shall be payable from any appropriations available to the Military Establishment: Provided, That this Act shall not be construed as authorizing the acquisition of real estate by the War Department, except by lease, for use in the Army specialized training program". Approved March 6, 1943. [CHAPTER 141 AN ACT To amend the Act approved May 27, 1937 (ch. 269, 50 Stat. 208), by providing substitute and additional authority for the prevention of speculation in lands of the Columbia Basin project, and substitute and additional authority related to the settlement and development of the project, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of May 27, 1937 (ch. 269, 50 Stat. 208), is hereby amended to read as follows: "SECTION 1. In addition to the primary purposes for which the Grand Coulee Dam project (hereafter to be known as the Columbia Basin project and herein called the 'project') was authorized under the provisions of the Act of August 30, 1935 (49 Stat. 1028), the project is hereby authorized and reauthorized as a project subject to the Reclanlation Project Act of 1939; and the provisions of each of those two Acts together with the provisions of this Act shall govern the repayment of expenditures and the construction, operation, and maintenance of the works constructed as a part of the project. "SEC. 2. (a) No part of the funds heretofore or hereafter appro- priated or allotted for project construction or for the reclamation of land within the project shall be expended in the construction of any irrigation features of the project, exclusive of Grand Coulee Dam and appurtenant works now under construction and of the pumping plant and equalizing reservoir and dams, until the requirements of the following subdivisions (i) and (ii) of this subsection (a) have been met: "(i) All lands within the project shall have been impartially appraised by the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter called the 'Secretary') and evaluated at the date of appraisal without reference to or increment on account of the construction of the project. Reap- praisals may be made at any time by the Secretary, and will be made upon the request of the landowner concerned accompanied by an advance to the United States of $15 for each quarter section or frac- tion thereof involved, on account of expense thereof. In such reap- praisals the Secretary shall take into account, in addition to the value found in the first appraisal, improvements made after said appraisal, [57 STAT.

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