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PUBLIC LAW
8 7 - 3 3 0 - S E P T. 30,
1961
725
GENEKAL INVESTIGATIONS
For engineering and economic investigations of proposed Federal reclamation projects and studies of water conservation and development plans and activities preliminary to the reconstruction, rehabilitation and betterment, financial adjustment, or extension of existing projects, including not to exceed $350,000 for investigations of projects in Alaska, to remain available until expended, $6,643,000, of which $5,520,000 shall be derived from the reclamation fund and $500,000 shall be derived from the Colorado River development fund: Frovided^ That none of this appropriation shall be used for more than one-half of the cost of an investigation requested by a State, municipality, or other interest: Provided further, That $250,000 of this appropriation shall be transferred to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service for studies, investigations, and reports thereon as required by the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act of 1958 (72 Stat. 563-565) to provide that wildlife conservation shall receive equal consideration and be coordinated with other features of water-resource development programs of the Bureau of Reclamation.
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CONSTRUCTION A N D REHABILITATION
For construction and rehabilitation of authorized reclamation projects or parts thereof (including power transmission facilities) and for other related activities, as authorized by law, to remain available until expended, $152,405,500, of which $67,400,000 shall be derived from the reclamation fund: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to initiate the construction of transmission facilities within those areas covered by power wheeling service contracts which include provision for service to Federal establishments and preferred customers, except those transmission facilities for which construction funds have been heretofore appropriated, those facilities which are necessary to carry out the terms of such contracts or those facilities for which the Secretary of the Interior finds the wheeling agency is unable or unwilling to provide for the integration of Federal projects or for service to a Federal establishment or preferred customer: Provided further, That funds shall be available to complete the construction of and to operate and maintain within and adjacent to the Yuma Irrigation District, in the South Gila Valley, Arizona, those drainage works on which construction has heretofore been initiated pursuant to the Act of June 28, 1946 (60 Stat.,338): Provided further, That not to exceed $192,000 of funds made available for construction and maintenance of access roads in the Yellowtail Unit area shall be nonreimbursable: Provided further, That not to exceed $435,000 shall be available toward investigation and the emergency rehabilitation of the Dalton Gardens, Avondale, and Hayden Lake Unit, Rathdrum Prairie Irrigation projects, Idaho, to be effective only upon approval by the President of H.R. 4458, Eighty-seventh Congress. OPERATION A N D M A I N T E N A N C E
For operation and maintenance of reclamation projects or parts thereof and of other facilities, as authorized by law; and for a soil and moisture conservation program on lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Reclamation, pursuant to law, $36,189,000, of which $30,687,000 shall be derived from the reclamation fund and $1,491,000 shall bei derived from the Colorado River Dam fund: Provided, That funds advanced for operation and maintenance of reclamation projects or parts thereof shall be deposited to the credit of this appropria-
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