59 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , IST SESS.-CH. 262 -JULY 3, 1945 tributing material, including recordings; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field; refunds of overcollections and deposits for other purposes; lithographing, engraving, printing, and binding; purchase of ice; purchase of rubber boots for official use by employees; purchase (not to exceed two hundred and eighty), maintenance, and operation of horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger vehicles; hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft with funds provided for "General investigations" and the "Missouri River Basin", and all sums appropriated in this Act to such Bureau shall be available for such hire, maintenance, and operation to meet unforeseen emergencies due to fire, flood, or storm; contract stenographic reporting services; payment of damages caused to the owners of lands or other private property of any kind by reason of the operations of the United States, its officers or employees, in the survey, construction, oper- ation, or maintenance of irrigation works; payment for official telephone service in the field hereafter incurred in case of official telephones installed in private houses when authorized under regula- tions established by the Secretary; payment of rewards, when specifi- cally authorized by the Secretary, for information leading to the apprehension and conviction of persons found guilty of the theft, damage, or destruction of public property: Provided,That no part of any sum provided for in this Act for operation and maintenance of any project or division of a project by the Bureau of Reclamation shall be used for the irrigation of any lands within the boundaries of an irrigation district which has contracted with the Bureau of Reclama- tion and is in arrears for more than twelve months in the payment of any charges due the United States, and no part of any sum provided for in this Act for such purpose shall be used for the irrigation of any lands which have contracted with the Bureau of Reclamation and are in arrears for more than twelve months in the payment of any charges due from said lands to the United States. The following sums are appropriated out of the special fund in the Treasury of the United States created by the Act of June 17, 1902 (43 U. S. C . 391, 411), and therein designated "the reclamation fund", to be available immediately: Parker Dam power plroject, Arizona-California: Not to exceed $420,000 from power and other revenues shall be available for opera- tion and maintenance; Yuma project, Arizona-California: For operation and maintenance, $67,500: Provided, That not to exceed $25,000 from the power reve- nues shall be available for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system; Central Valley project, California: Not to exceed $400,000 from power revenues shall be available for the operation and maintenance of the power system; Colorado-Big Thompson project, Colorado: Not to exceed $140,000 from power revenues shall be available for the operation and mainte- nance of the power system; Boise project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, $106,000; Minidoka project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, reserved works, $16,500: Provided, That not to exceed $54,000 from the power revenues shall be available for the operation of the commercial system; North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming: Not to exceed $89,400 from the power revenues shall be available for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system; and not to exceed $6.000 from power revenues allocated to the Northport irrigation district under subsection I, section 4, of the Act of December 5,1924 (43 U. S. C . 501), shall be available for payment on behalf of the Northport irrigation district, to the Farmers' irrigation district for carriage of water; 339 Vehicles. Property damages. Rewards. Restriction on use of funds. Sums from reclama- tion fund. Post, p. 647. 32 Stat. 38M. Projects. Parker D)ami, Ariz. - Calif. Yuma, Arli. -Calif. Central Valley, Calif. Colorado-Big Thompson, Colo. Boise, Idaho. Minidoka, Idaho. North Platte, Nebr.- Wyo. 43 Stat. 703 .
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