Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 52.djvu/852

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52 STAT.] 75TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CH. 554 -JUNE 21, 1938 such period as to constitute the total amount that will be furnished to such Administration during such period for relief purposes, except that upon the happening of some extraordinary emergency or unusual circumstance, which could not be anticipated at the time of making such apportionment, the same may be waived or modified by the Presi- dent, who shall fully set forth the reasons therefor at the time of any such action and communicate the same to Congress in connection with any estimates for additional appropriations to carry out the purposes of this title, but any such waiver or modification shall not have the effect of reducing the total period of apportionment of such funds as provided herein by more than one month; and the funds appropriated m this title to the Secretary of Agriculture, to the Works Progress Administration for the National Youth Administration, and to the other agencies, shall be so apportioned and distributed over the twelve months of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, and shall be so admin- istered during such fiscal year as to constitute the total amounts that will be furnished to the Secretary of Agriculture, to the Works Prog- ress Administration for the National Youth Administration, and to the other agencies during such fiscal year for the purposes of this title. SEC. 3 . The Administrator of the Works Progress Administration is authorized to allocate to other Federal departments, establish- ments, and agencies, for the purpose of operating projects of the types specified for the Works Progress Administration under section 1 of this title, including administrative expenses of any such depart- ment, establishment, or agency incident to the operation of such projects, not to exceed $60,000,000 of the funds made available by such section to such Administration and to prescribe rules and regu- lations for the operation of such projects: Provided, That not to exceed 5 per centum of the total amount so allotted to any such department, establishment, or agency shall be expended for such administrative expenses. SEC. 4 . The Works Progress Administration, the National Youth Administration within the orks Progress Administration, the Farm Security Administration within the Department of Agriculture, the National Emergency Council, and the National Resources Committee are hereby extended until June 30, 1939, to carry out the purposes of this title. SEC. 5 . No Federal construction project, except flood control and water conservation projects authorized under other law, shall be undertaken or prosecuted under the appropriations in this title unless and until there shall have been allocated and irrevocably set aside Federal funds sufficient for its completion; and no non-Federal project shall be undertaken or prosecuted under such appropriations unless and until the sponsor has made a written agreement to finance such part of the entire cost thereof as is not to be supplied from Federal funds. SEC. 6 . Federal agencies having supervision of projects prosecuted under the appropriations in this title are authorized to receive from sponsors of non-Federal projects contributions in services, materials or money, such money to be deposited with the Treasurer of the United States. Such contributions shall be expended or utilized as agreed upon between the sponsor and the Federal agency. SEC. 7 . In carrying out the purposes of this title, the heads of the departments, establishments, and agencies to which funds are appro- priated herein are authorized to prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary. SEC. 8 . The appropriations in this title for administrative expenses and such portion of other appropriations in this title as are available for administrative expenses shall not be obligated for such adminis- 811 Emergencies, etc. Allocation of funds by Works Progress Administrator to oth- er Federal agencies for operation of projects. Ante, p. 670. Proviso. Limitation on ad- ministrative expenses. Designated agencies extended until June 30,1939. Work forbidden un- less funds for comple- tion allocated; excep- tion. Ande, p. 670. Non-Federal proj- ects. Acceptance of con- tributions from spon- sors of non-Federal projects. Rules and regula- tions by heads of departments, etc. Administrative ex- penses not to exceed allocations.