78TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 298-JUNE 28,1944 Boulder Canyon project, including not to exceed $25,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, and payment to the Boulder City School District, as reimbursement for instruction during the 1944-1945 school year in the schools operated by said district of each pupil who is a dependent of any employee of the United States, living in or in the immediate vicinity of Boulder City, in the sum of $45 per semester per pupil in average daily attendance at said schools, pay- able after the term of instruction in any semester has been completed, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary: Provided, That on or before June 1, 1946, the Secretary shall report to the Congress on expenditures incurred and revenues received in the construction, operation, and maintenance of Boulder City, together with his recom- mendations for allocation and adjustment of such expenditures and revenues between the construction, operation, and maintenance of the Boulder Canyon project and other Federal activities: and that such expenditures from the Colorado River Dam fund prior to such allocation and adjustment, under this or other appropriation Acts heretofore or hereafter enacted, shall be without prejudice to the rights, if any, of power contractors to have adjustments, with respect to such expenditures, made to accord with the substantive provisions of the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act. To defray the cost of operating and maintaining the Colorado River front work and levee system adjacent to the Yuma Federal irrigation project in Arizona and California, and to defray the cost of other necessary protection works along the Colorado River between said Yuma project and Boulder Dam, as authorized by the Act of July 1, 1940 (54 Stat. 708), to be immediately available, $340,000, of which not to exceed $100,000 may be expended for the purchase of lands subject to seepage or overflow and improvements thereon: Provided, That the expenditure of any moneys for the purchase of said lands and improvements or for remedial or other necessary works for the protection of public or private property in or near the city of Needles, California, shall not be deemed a recognition of any obligation or liability whatsoever on the part of the United States: Provided further, That any moneys received by the United States as reim- bursement in accordance with contracts heretofore entered into under the authority of the Act of December 21, 1928 (45 Stat. 1057), as amended, and ratified by the Act of August 30 1935 (49 Stat. 1028), for work in or near said city of Needles, shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. Colorado River Development Fund (expenditure account): For continuation and extension of studies and investigations by the Bureau of Reclamation for the formulation of a comprehensive plan for the utilization of waters of the Colorado River system, $500,000, and for investigations of projects for such utilization in the four States of the upper division, $750,000, as authorized by section 2 of the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act, approved July 19, 1940 (54 Stat. 774); in all, $1.250,000 from the Colorado River Development Fund (holding account), to remain available until expended, which amount shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $15,000) and for all the other objects of expenditures specified for projects hereinbefore included in this Act under the caption "Bureau of Reclamation", under the heading "Administrative provisions and limitations", but without regard to the amounts of the limitations therein set forth. COLORADO RIVER DAM FUND Boulder Canyon project (All-American Canal): Not to exceed $100,000 from unexpended balances of appropriations for this project Reimbursement of Boulder City School District. Report to Congress. 54 Stat. 774. 43U.S.C.f§618- 618o. Colorado River front work and levee system. Purchase ef lands. Public works, etc., Needles, Calif. Disposition of reim- bursements. 43U.S.C.If617- 617t. Colorado River De- velopment Fund. 43U. S.C. I618a. Ante, p. 486. Preparation of raw public lands. 5 STAT.] 489
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