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 [57 STA.T. PUBLIC LAWS--H. 219-JULY 12, 1943 Riverton, Wyo. Riverton project, Wyoming: For operation and maintenance, $63,000: Provided,That not to exceed $45,000 from the power revenues shall be available for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system; Shoshone, wyo. Shoshone project, Wyoming: For operation and maintenance, Will- wood division, $16,200: Provided, That not to exceed $45,000 from power revenues shall be available for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system; Pay and expenses. Operation and maintenance administration: For necessary pay of employees, traveling and other expenses incident to the general administration of reclamation projects, either operated and main- tained by the Bureau or transferred to water users' organizations for operation and maintenance, and incident to the sale of unplatted portions of Government town sites and temporarily and permanently unproductive public lands as authorized by the Act of May 16, 1930 424e. C.c. 4i- (46 Stat. 367), including giving information and advice to settlers on reclamation projects in the selection of lands, equipment, and livestock, the preparation of land for irrigation, the selection of crops, methods of irrigation and agricultural practice, and general farm management, the cost of which shall be charged to the general reclamation fund and shall not be charged as a part of the construc- tion or operation and maintenance cost payable by the water users Limitation of ex- under the projects, $100,000; penditures. e 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 1944, on any reclamation project appropriated for herein, an amount in excess of the sum herein appropriated therefor, nor shall the whole expenditures or obli- gations incurred for all of such projects for the fiscal year 1944 exceed the whole amount in the reclamation fund for the fiscal year; pIntrrhange o ap- Interchange of appropriations: Ten per centum of the foregoing propriations. 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 condi- tions, an amount sufficient to make necessary emergency repairs shall become available for expenditure by further transfer of appropria- Construction of des- tion from any of said projects upon approval of the Secretary; ignated projects. 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 Ant, p. 472. objects of expenditure as specified under the caption "Bureau of Reclamation", under the head "Administrative provisions and limita- tions", but without regard to the amounts of the limitations therein set forth, all to be reimbursable under the reclamation law, and to remain available until expended: Boise project, Idaho. Payette Division, $100,000; Deschutes project, Oregon, $100.000; Klamath project, Oregon-California, $420,000; Riverton project, Wyoming, $100,000; General investa Shoshone project, Wyoming, Heart Mountain Division, $100,000; tions. General investigations: For engineering and economic investiga- tions of proposed Federal reclamation projects and surveys, investi- gations and other activities relating to reconstruction, rehabilitation, extensions, or financial adjustments of existing projects, and studies of water conservation and development plans, such investigations, surveys, and studies to be carried on by said Bureau either inde- 474

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