to be coupled with the new language in line 11, page 8, "Except as otherwise herein provided" for the purpose of securing armory drill pay for the officers while also in receipt of the full pay and allowances of their grades. If this is the intention, it is expressed by indirection and as section 94 of the National Defense Act gives to such officers pay and allowances for field- or coast-defense training and at maneuvers corresponding to the pay and allowances of officers of the Regular Army of the same grade and length of service, no basis is perceived for giving to National Guard officers in addition thereto their armory drill pay during such period. In line 10, page 11, the volume of the Statutes at Large is incorrectly shown as 58; it should be 53. Sincerely yours, AND STRAWBERRY WATER USERS' ASSOCIATION OF PAYSON, UTAH JUNE 10 (legislative day, MAY 28), 1940.-Ordered to be printed Mr. KING, from the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. 4011] The Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, to whom was referred the bill (S. 4011) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to accept payment of an annual equitable overhead charge in connection. with the repayment contract between the United States and the Strawberry Water Users' Association of Payson, Utah, in full satisfaction of delinquent billings upon the basis of an annual fixed overhead charge, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report thereon favorably, with the recommendation that the bill do pass without amendment. The action of your committee was based upon the following facts: 1. That the Strawberry Water Users' Association, of Payson, Utah, is bound, under the terms of a contract entered into by and between such association and the United States of America, to pay an annual charge of one-tenth of 1 percent of the net investment of the United States in the Strawberry Valley project computed as of January 1 preceding the date of each annual payment, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior. This flat charge covers the proportion to be borne by the Strawberry Valley project of all overhead charges of the Denver and other offices of the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior. 2. The net investment of the United States in the Strawberry Valley project, at the time such contract was entered into, was $2,500,000. Required overhead charges were paid to the Government by the Strawberry Water Users' Association for the years 1928 to 1931. However, due to the enactment of several moratoria, the Government's net investment has not been curtailed as rapidly as was expected. It appears that the determination of overhead charges, based upon one-tenth of 1 percent of the Government's net investment is comparatively excessive. Other repayment contracts of the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior do not contain provision for the payment of overhead charges computed upon a percentage of the Government's net investment. 3. It appears that payment of the Strawberry Water Users' Association of $400 per year would constitute a reasonable settlement of overhead charges properly attributable to the Strawberry Valley project; and that this bill, which would authorize such a settlement for overhead charges already accrued, ought to be passed. Furthermore, the bill would authorize revision of the contract between the Water Users' Association and the Government to provide for a payment of overhead costs, to be determined annually by the Secretary of the Interior. O 76TH CONGRESS 3d Session } SENATE { REPORT No. 1790 AUTHORIZING THE ACCEPTANCE OF DONATIONS OF PROPERTY FOR THE MAMMOTH CAVE NATIONAL PARK, IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY JUNE 10 (legislative day, MAY 28), 1940.-Ordered to be printed Mr. ADAMS, from the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. 4045] The Senate Committee on Public Lands and Surveys to whom was referred the bill (S. 4045) to authorize the acceptance of donations of property for the Mammoth Cave National Park, in the State of Kentucky, and for other purposes, having considered the same report favorably thereon without amendment and with the recommendation that the bill do pass. Further facts concerning this proposed measure are set forth in the letter from the Secretary of the Interior, which letter is herein below set forth in full and made a part of this report. Hon. ALVA B. ADAMS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Chairman, Committee on Public Lands and Surveys, United States Senate. MY DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: Further reference is made to the request of your committee for the views of this Department on S. 4045, entitled "A bill to authorize the acceptance of donations of property for the Mammoth Cave National Park, in the State of Kentucky, and for other purposes.' I recommend that S. 4045 be enacted. The existing means of entering the park are by roads low in standard, poor in scenic preservation, and not so located as to be directional for those entering the park either from the west or from the east via United States Highway No. 31 W. It is the belief of this Department that the passage of S. 4045 would be highly beneficial to the park in that the acceptance of lands donated which would be used to develop a proper and suitable entrance road to the park, would also protect the junction of such entrance road with United States Highway No. 31W from such undesirable development as cabin camps, hot-dog stands, gasoline stations, and billboards. The highly scenic nature of the park area proper and the large investment which the Federal Government is making in the development of the cave area, both underground and above ground, are such that the approach |