75TH GONG., 3D SESS.- CH. 187--MAY 9, 1938 Operation and maintenance administration: For necessary pay of employees, traveling and other expenses incident to the general administration of reclamation projects, either operated and main- tained by the Bureau or transferred to water users' organizations for operation and maintenance, including giving information and advice to settlers on reclamation projects in the selection of lands, equipment, and livestock, the preparation of land for irrigation, the selection of crops, methods of irrigation and agricultural practice, and general farm management, the cost of which shall be charged to the general reclamation fund and shall not be charged as a part of the construction or operation and maintenance cost payable by the water users under the projects, $15,000; Limitation of expenditures: Under the provisions of this Act no greater sum shall be expended, nor shall the United States be obli- gated to expend during the fiscal year 1939, on any reclamation project appropriated for herein, an amount m excess of the sum herein appropriated therefor, nor shall the whole expenditures or obligations incurred for all of such projects for the fiscal year 1939 exceed the whole amount in the reclamation fund for the fiscal year; Interchange of appropriations: Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditures on the reclamation projects named; but not more than 10 per centum 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 condi- tions, 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; Construction: For continuation of construction of the following projects in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively, to be expended from the Reclamation Fund under the same general condi- tions and in the same manner and for the same objects of expenditure as specified for projects hereinbefore in this Act under the caption "Bureau of Reclamation", and to be reimbursable under the reclama- tion law: Gila project, Arizona, $900,000; The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to furnish water for the use of the Arizona State Experiment Farm, embracing the west half southwest quarter of section 28, township 9 south, range 23 west, Gila and Salt River meridian, together with such areas as may be added thereto, the cost, not exceeding $750 annually, to be paid from the appropriations for the Gila project; Salt River project, Arizona, $200,000; Colorado-Big Thompson project, Colorado, $1,250,000: Provided, That not less than $600,000 of the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended in the construction of the Green Mountain Reservoir in accordance with the plans set forth in Senate Document Numbered 80 of the Seventy-fifth Congress, and that construction of said reservoir shall be commenced at or before the time of beginning the construc- tion of the tunnel described in said Senate Document Numbered 80; Boise project, Idaho, Payette division, $500,000; Twin Springs Dam and Snake River pumping plant, $750,000; Minidoka project, Idaho, $400,000; Upper Snake River storage project, Idaho, $250,000; Sun River project. Montana, $300,000; Carlsbad project, New Mexico, $100,000; Rio Grande project, New Mexico-Texas, $500,000; Deschutes project, Oregon, $300,000; Owyhee project, Oregon, $310,000; 36525°-38--21 Operation and maintenance admin- istration. Information to settlers. Limitation of ex- penditures. Interchange of ap- propriations. Emergency flood re- pairs. Construction of des- ignated projects. Gila, Ariz. Arizona State Ex- periment Farm, fur- nishing water. Salt River, Ariz. Colorado-Big Thompson, Colo. Proviso. Construction of Green Mountain Res- ervoir. Boise, Payette di- vision, Idaho. Minidoka, Idaho. Upper Snake River storage, Idaho. Sun River, Mont. Carlsbad, N. Mex. Rio Grande, N. Mex. -Tex. Deschutes, Oreg. Owyhee, Oreg. 52 STAT.] 321
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