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PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 30-FEB. 16, 1938 REPORT OF BENEFITS Report of benefits. 49 Stat. 163, 1148 . 16 U. S. C., Supp. III, §§ 590a-590q. Finality of farmers' payments and loans. Interest ofMembers of Congress. Provisions not to apply to loans, etc., hereunder; exception. R.S.§3741;41 U.S . . § 22. IsU.S. . §§ 204, 205. Ante, p. 67. Photographic repro- ductions and maps. Utilization of local agencies. 49 Stat. 1149; 50 Stat. 329. 16 U. S. C., Supp. IIIll, t 6590h, k . Ante, p. 31. 49 Stat. 1148-1151. Local administra- tive areas. Payments to county committees for ad- ministrative expenses. Post, p. 746. Pro rata deductions from payments. SEC. 384. The Secretary shall submit to Congress an annual report of the names of persons to whom, during the preceding year, pay- ments were made under the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allot- ment Act, as amended, together with payments under section 303 of this Act, if any, if the total amount paid to such person exceeded $1,000. FINALITY OF FARMERS' PAYMENTS AND LOANS SEC. 385. The facts constituting the basis for any Soil Conservation Act payment, parity payment, or loan, or the amount thereof, when officially determined in conformity with the applicable regulations prescribed by the Secretary or by the Commodity Credit Corpora- tion, shall be final and conclusive and shall not be reviewable by any other officer or agency of the Government. SEC. 386. The provisions of section 3741 of the Revised Statutes (U. S . C ., 1934 edition, title 41, sec. 22) and sections 114 and 115 of the Criminal Code of the United States (U. S . C ., 1934 edition, title 18, secs. 204 and 205) shall not be applicable to loans or payments made under this Act (except under section 383 (a)). PHOTOGRAPHIC REPRODUCTIONS AND MAPS SEC. 387. The Secretary may furnish reproductions of such aerial or other photographs, mosaics, and maps as have been obtained in connection with the authorized work of the Department to farmers and governmental agencies at the estimated cost of furnishing such reproductions, and to persons other than farmers at such prices (not less than estimated cost of furnishing such reproductions) as the Secretary may determine, the money received from such sales to be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation charged with the cost of making such reproductions. This section shall not affect the power of the Secretary to make other disposition of such or similar materials under any other provisions of existing law. UTILIZATION OF LOCAL AGENCIES SEC. 388 . (a) The provisions of section 8 (b) and section 11 of the Soil Conservation and I)omestic Allotment Act, as amended, relating to the utilization of State, county, local committees, the extension service, and other approved agencies, and to recognition and encour- agement of cooperative associations, shall apply in the administra- tion of this Act; and the Secretary shall, for such purposes, utilize the same local, county, and State committees as are utilized under sections 7 to 17, inclusive, of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended. The local administrative areas desig- nated under section 8 (b) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, for the administration of programs under that Act, and the local administrative areas designated for the administration of this Act shall be the same. (b) The Secretary is authorized and directed, from any funds made available for the purposes of the Acts in connection with which county committees are utilized, to make payments to county committees of farmers to cover the estimated administrative expenses incurred or to be incurred by them in cooperating in carrying out the provisions of such Acts. All or part of such estimated adminis- trative expenses of any such committee may be deducted pro rata from the Soil Conservation Act payments, parity payments, or loans, or other payments under such Acts, made unless payment of such expenses is otherwise provided by law. The Secretary may [52 STAT. 68