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act, is hereby made available for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1932.

Under the provisions of this act no greater sum shall be expended, nor shall the United States be obligated to expend during the fiscal year 1932, on any reclamation project appropriated for herein, an amount in excess of the sum herein appropriated therefor, nor shall the whole expenditures or obligations incurred for all of such projects for the fiscal year 1932 exceed the whole amount in the "reclamation fund" for the fiscal year. (46 Stat. 1145.)

Ten per cent of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditures on the reclamation projects named; but not more than 10 per cent 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 conditions an amount sufficient to make necessary emergency repairs shall become available for expenditure by further transfer of appropriation from any of said projects upon approval of the Secretary of the Interior. (46 Stat. 1146.)

Whenever, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation shall find that the expenses of travel, including the local transportation of employees to and from their homes to the places where they are engaged on construction or operation and maintenance work, can be reduced thereby, he may authorize the payment of not to exceed 3 cents per mile for a motor cycle or 7 cents per mile for an automobile used for necessary official business.

NOTE

See note entitled "Local transportation of employees to and from their homes (operators of dragline excavators, Ruth dredger ditching machines, etc.)", following Act of February 14, 1931.

Total from reclamation fund, $6,971,000.

To defray the cost of operating and maintaining the Colorado River front work and levee system adjacent to the Yuma Federal irrigation project in Arizona and California, subject only to section 4 of the act entitled "An act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes," approved January 21, 1927 (44 Stat. p. 1010), $100,000, to be immediately available.

Boulder Canyon project: For the continuation of construction of the Hoover Dam and incidental works in the main stream of the Colorado River at Black Canyon, to create a storage reservoir, and of a complete plant and incidental structures suitable for the fullest economic development of electrical energy from the water discharged from such reservoir; to acquire by proceedings in eminent domain, or otherwise, all lands, rights of way and other property necessary for such purposes; and for incidental operations; as authorized by the Boulder Canyon project act, approved December 21, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 33, ch. 15A); $15,000,000 to be immediately available and to remain available until advanced to the Colorado River Dam fund, which amount shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia and for all other objects of expenditure

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that are specified for projects included in this act under the caption "Bureau of Reclamation" without regard to the limitations of amounts therein set forth: Provided, That of the amount hereby appropriated, not to exceed $50,000, reimbursable, shall be available for investigation and reports as authorized by section 15 of the Boulder Canyon project act. (46 Stat. 1146.)

NOTE

Interchange of funds.-With regard to the provision in the Interior Department appropriation act, fiscal year 1932, permitting the interchange of funds between projects, the Comptroller General, in interpreting the item in the same act relating to the Boulder Canyon project, in decision A-41637 dated June 14, 1932, stated: "There is no such provision in the appropriation for the 'Boulder Canyon River Fund.' The provision in said appropriation that the amount appropriated thereunder shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia and 'for all other objects of expenditure that are specified for projects included in this act under the caption Bureau of Reclamation' without regard to the limitations therein set forth, was not intended to make said appropriation supplemental to or available for all other projects included under the caption 'Bureau of Reclamation', but rather to make said appropriation available for expenditures in carrying out the provisions of the Boulder Canyon Project Act only, as provided in section 2 (a) of said act." Statement was further made that the matter of determining the availability of an approp 'iation for a use, proposed or accomplished, is the duty and responsibility of the accounting officers and not that of the official having administrative control over the appropriation. In this connection 5 Comp. Gen. 703 and 4 Comp. Gen. 713 were cited.

Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $650 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, including not exceeding $50,000 for cleaning up Jackson Lake in cooperation with the Bureau of Reclamation either by direct expenditure or by transfer to the reclamation fund, for expenditure under the direction of the commissioner of reclamation for the purposes for which appropriated, said amount for such clean up to remain available until expended, $76,100; for construction of physical improvements, $650; in all, $76,750. (46 Stat. 1150.)

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SEC. 2. Appropriations herein made for field work under the Bureau of Reclamation, * * * shall be available for the hire, with or without personal services, of work animals and animaldrawn and motor-propelled vehicles and equipment. (46 Stat. 1160.)

SALE OF SURPLUS POWER DEVELOPED UNDER GRAND VALLEY

PROJECT

An act authorizing the sale of surplus power developed under the Grand Valley reclamation project, Colorado. (Act February 21, 1931, ch. 266, 46 Stat. 1202)

[Grand Valley Water Users' Association authorized to enter into contracts for development of power.]-That whenever a development of power is necessary for the irrigation of lands under the Grand Valley reclamation project, Colorado, or an opportunity is afforded for the development of power under said project, such development of power to be without expenditure of money from the reclamation fund or from the Treasury of the United States, the Grand Valley Water Users' Association, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, is authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for a period of not exceeding twenty-five years for the sale or development of any surplus power or power privileges in said Grand Valley reclamation project, Colorado.

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COOPERATIVE WORK OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

[Extracts from] An act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and for other purposes. (Act February 23, 1931, ch. 278, 46 Stat. 1242)

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EXTENSION SERVICE

For farmers' cooperative demonstration work, including special suggestions of plans and methods for more effective dissemination of the results of the work of the Department of Agriculture and the agricultural experiment stations and of improved methods of agricultural practice, at farmers' institutes and in agricultural instruction, and for such work on Government reclamation projects, and for personal services in the city of Washington and elsewhere, supplies, and all other necessary expenses, $1,574,430: Provided, That the expense of such service shall be defrayed from this appropriation and such cooperative funds as may be voluntarily contributed by State, county, and municipal agencies, associations of farmers, and individual farmers, universities, colleges, boards of trade, chambers of commerce, other local associations of business men, business organizations, and individuals within the State. (46 Stat. 1247.)

BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY

Western irrigation agriculture: For investigations in connection with western irrigation agriculture, the utilization of lands reclaimed under the Reclamation Act, and other areas in the arid and semiarid regions, $153,940: Provided, That the limitations in this act as to the cost of farm buildings shall not apply to this paragraph. (46 Stat. 1255.)

PAYMENT OF AMOUNT DEDUCTED AS LIQUIDATED DAMAGES TO DAVIS, HOWE AND COMPANY

An act for the relief of Davis, Howe and Company. (Act February 28, 1931, ch. 354, 46 Stat. 2126)

[Payment from Treasury to subcontractor on Echo Dam, Salt Lake Basin project, Utah.]-That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Davis, Howe and Company, Salt Lake City, Utah, the sum of $2,660. Such sum represents the amount deducted as liquidated damages from the price received by such company, as subcontractor of the Burnham Manufacturing Company, Woods Cross, Utah, for furnishing two high-pressure emergency gates and conduit linings for the Echo Dam, Salt Lake Basin project, Utah.

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