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PUBLIC LAW 88-257-DEC. 31, 1963

[77 STAT.

vlded^ That none of this appropriation shall be used for more than one-half of the cost of an investigation requested by a State, municipality, or other interest: Provided further, That $340,000 of this appropriation shall be transferred to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service for studies, investigations, and reports thereon as required by the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act of 1958 (72 Stat. 16 USC 661 note. 563-565) to provide that wildlife conservation shall receive equal consideration and be coordinated with other features of water-resource development progi*ams of the Bureau of Reclamation. CONSTRUCTION A N D R E H A B I L I T A T I O N

Restriction.

For construction and rehabilitation of authorized reclamation projects or parts thereof (including power transmission facilities) and for other related activities, as authorized by law, to remain available until expended, $185,431,000, of which $75,000,000 shall be derived fTom the reclamation fund: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to initiate the construction of transmission facilities within those areas covered by power wheeling service contracts which include provision for service to Federal establishments and preferred customers, except those transmission facilities for which construction funds have been heretofore appropriated, those facilities which are necessary to carry out the terms of such contracts or those facilities for which the Secretary of the Interior finds the wheeling agency is unable or unwilling to provide for the integration of Federal projects or for service to a Federal establishment or preferred customer. OPERATION A N D M A I N T E N A N C E

For operation and maintenance of reclamation projects or parts thereof and of other facilities, as authorized by law; and for a soil and moisture conservation program on lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Reclamation, pursuant to law, $38,000,000, of which $31,408,000 shall be derived from the reclamation fund and $1,645,000 shall be derived from the Colorado River Dam fund: Provided, That funds advanced for operation and maintenance of reclamation projects or parts thereof shall be deposited to the credit of this appropriation and may be expended for the same objects and in the same manner as sums appropriated herein may be expended, and the unexpended balances of such advances shall be credited to the appropriation for the next succeeding fiscal year. LOAN PROGRAM

69 Stat. 244.

For loans to irrigation districts and other public agencies for construction of distribution systems on authorized Federal reclamation projects, and for loans and grants to non-Federal agencies for construction of projects, as authorized by the Acts of July 4, 1955, as amended (43 U.S.C. 4 2 1 a ^ 2 1 d), and August 6, 1956 (43 U.S.C.

70 Stat. 1044.

4 2 2 a - 4 2 2 k), a s amended ( 7 1 Stat. 4 8), i n c l u d i n g expenses necessary

43 USC 388.

for carrying out the program, $12,367,000 to remain available until expended: Provided, That any contract under the Act of July 4, 1955 (69 Stat. 244), as amended, not yet executed by the Secretary, which calls for the making of loans beyond the fiscal year in which the contract is entered into shall be made only on the same conditions as those prescribed in section 12 of the Act of August 4, 1939 (53 Stat. 1187, 1197).

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