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PUBLIC LAW

STAT.]

172-JULY

31, 1953

Public Law 172

261 CHAPTER 298

AN ACT Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives United States of America in Congress assembled,

of the

j u l y 3 1. 1953 [ H. R. 4828]

Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1954.

TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, namely: OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY ENFORCEMENT OF CONNALLY HOT OIL ACT

For expenses necessary for controlling the interstate shipment of contraband oil as required by law (15 U.S.C. 715), $150,000.

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OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, SOUl'HEASTERN POWER ADMINISTRATION

For necessary expenses of operation and maintenance of power transmission facilities and of marketing electric power and energy pursuant to the provisions of section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1944 (16 U.S.C. 825s), as applied to the southeastern power area, $1,080,000. =8 Stat. 89o. For expenses of planning for the construction and acquisition of transmission lines, substations, and appurtenant facilities to carry out the provisions of section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1944 (16 U.S.C. 825s), as applied to the southeastern power area, $50,000. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to negotiate a disposition of all real and personal property acquired by contract or otherwise out of or by color of appropriations in either the 1952 or 1953 Interior Department Appropriation Acts under the heading "Con- g^^s sta^. 249; 66 struction. Southeastern Power Administration" for the Clark HillGreenw^ood transmission facility to the Greenwood County Electric Power Commission, a public agency of the State of South Carolina, having first completed payments due on property so acquired. The disposition of such property shall be on such terms as wdll reimburse the United States and the proceeds therefrom shall be deposited in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. When said disposition has been eifected the unexpended balance of the appropriation made in the Interior Department Appropriation .^ - r -v Act, 1952 (65 Stat. 248), under the heading "Construction, Southeastern Power Administration", and the unexpended balance of the appropriation made in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1953 (66 Stat. 445), under the same heading for the Clark HillGreenwood facilities, shall be carried to the surplus funds and covered into the Treasury. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, SOUTHW^ESTERN POWER ADMINISTRATION

For necessary expenses of operation and maintenance of power transmission facilities and of marketing electric power and energy pursuant to the provisions of section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1944 (16 U.S.C. 825s), as applied to the southwestern power area, $1,600,000.

ss Stat. 89o.

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