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54 STAT.] 7,6TH CONG. , 30 SESS.-CH. 396-JUNE 18, 1940 IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE For the construction, repair, and maintenance of irrigation sys- tems, and for purchase or rental of irrigation tools and appliances, water rights, ditches, and lands necessary for irrigation purposes for Indian reservations and allotments; for operation of irrigation sys- tems or appurtenances thereto when no other funds are applicable or available for the purpose; for drainage and protection of irrigable lands from damage by floods or loss of water rights, upon the Indian irrigation projects named below, in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively: Miscellaneous projects, $16,500; Arizona: Ak Chin, $4,000; Chiu Chui, $4,000; Ganado, $1,000 together with $1,500 from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropria- tion Repeal Act, 1934; Navajo, miscellaneous projects, Arizona and New Mexico, $12,000; Hopi, miscellaneous projects, $1,500; San Xavier, $2,000; California: Coachella Valley, $1,000; Morongo, $4,000, Pala and Rincon, $3,500, together with $500, from which expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of said Repeal Act; Colorado: Southern Ute, $13,000, together with $3,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accord- ance with section 4 of the said Repeal Act; Montana: Tongue River, $4,000; Nevada: Pyramid Lake, $3,000; Walker River, $6,000; Western Shoshone, $10,000; New Mexico: Miscellaneous Pueblos, $27,500; Oregon: Warm Springs, $3,000; Washington: Colville, $5,000, together with $1,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with sec- tion 4 of said Repeal Act; Lummi diking project, $500, together with $2,000, from which amount expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with sec- tion 4 of said Repeal Act. For necessary miscellaneous expenses incident to the general admin- istration of Indian irrigation projects, including pay of employees and their traveling and incidental expenses, $70,980; In all, for irrigation on Indian reservations, not to exceed $200,480, reimbursable: Provided, That the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the necessary expenditures for damages by floods and other unforeseen exigencies, but the amount so interchanged shall not exceed in the aggregate 10 per centum of all the amounts so appropriated: Provided further. That the cost of irrigation projects and of operating and maintaining such projects where reimbursement thereof is required by law shall be apportioned on a per-acre basis against the lands under the respective projects and shall be collected by the Secretary of the Interior as required by such law, and any unpaid charges out- standing against such lands shall constitute a first lien thereon which shall be recited in any patent or instrument issued for such lands. For operation and maintenance of the San Carlos project for the irrigation of lands in the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona, $65,000, reimbursable, together with $140,000 (operation and main- tenance collections), and $220,000 (power revenues), of which latter sum not to exceed $24,000 shall be available for major repairs in case of unforeseen emergencies caused by fire, flood, or storm, from which amounts, of $140,000 and $220,000, respectively, expenditures shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accord- ance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934; in all, $425,000. 419 Construction,main. tenance, etc., of desig- nated projects. Limitation. 48 Stat. 1227. 31 U. S. o. 725e. Miscellaneous ex- penses. Total; reimburse- ment. Proisos. Amounts Inter- changeable; limita- tion. Apportionment costs; collection. of Unpaid charges a first lien. San Carlos project, Ariz. Maintenance, etc. Emergencies. 48 Stat. 1227. 31 U. . .. § 728.