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 68 S T A T. ]

PUBLIC LAW 364-MAY 18, 1954

(a) the construction, operation, maintenance, expansion, relocation, replacement, renovation, and repair of the sanitary sewage works of the District, including all expenses; (b) payment of a portion of such administrative expenses as may not be wholly allocated to the sanitary sewage works or to sinj other sewage works of the District, but which expenses are incurred in connection with the operation of the sanitary sewage works and either or both the stormwater sewer system and the combined sewer system. The portion of such expenses to be paid from the D. C Sanitary Sewage Works Fund shall be fixed from time to time by the Connnissioners at such a percentage of the total of such expenses for the said sewer systems as the Commissioners, in their discretion, may determine; (c) payment of such portion of all expenses for the construction, operation, maintenance, expansion, relocation, replacement, renovation, and repair of the combined sewer system of the District as the Commissioners, in their discretion, determine to be attributable to the sanitary sewage function of such combined sewer system; (d) payment of the District's contribution to the expenses of the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin; (e) payments by the District to agencies in the State of Maryland providing services to the District for conveying, treating, or disposing of sanitary sewage: Provided, That the said fund shall not be available to pay the cost of providing sewage service to institutions of the District located in the State of Maryland; (f) payments to the General Fund and other funds of the District for such expenses or estimated expenses as are or may be incurred in the administration of this title; (g) payment to the United States Treasury of the interest, in accordance with the provisions of this title, on loans to the District for such Sanitary Sewage Works F u n d; (h) repayment to the United States Treasury of the principal amount of each loan made to the District in accordance with the provisions of this title, and of any advancements made to the District in accordance with the provisions of section 204 of this title; and (i) refund of part or all of any sanitary sewer service charges erroneously paid: Provided, That application for refund shall be made within two years after such erroneous payment. SEC. 204. The Secretary of the Treasury, notwithstanding the provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, approved June 29, 1922 (42 Stat. 668), is authorized and directed to advance, on the requisition of the Commissioners, made in the manner now prescribed by law, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary, from time to time, to meet the expenses of the District in connection with the construction, operation, maintenance, expansion, relocation, replacement, renovation, and repair of the sanitary sewage works of the District, as authorized by Congress, and such amounts so advanced shall be reimbursed by the said Commissioners to the Treasury out of the moneys deposited to the credit of the D. C. Sanitary Sewage Works Fund. SEC. 205. Notwithstanding the provisions of this title, any current appropriation available to the District for the construction, operation, maintenance, expansion, relocation, replacement, renovation, and repair of the sanitary sewage works of the District shall remain available for the purposes for which appropriated.

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