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PUBLIC LAW 91-144-DEC. 11, 1969
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Bureau of Reclamation, pursuant to law, $53,500,000, of which $42,190,000 shall be derived from the reclamation fund and $1,935,000 shall be derived from the Colorado River Dam fund: Provided, That funds advanced by water users for operation and maintenance of reclamation projects or parts thereof shall be deposited to the credit of this appropriation and may be expended for the same objects and in the same manner as sums appropriated herein may be expended, and the unexpended balances of such advances shall be credited to the appropriation for the next succeeding fiscal year. LOAN PROGRAM
For loans to irrigation districts and other public agencies for construction of distribution systems on authorized Federal reclamation projects, and for loans and grants to non-Federal agencies for construction of projects, as authorized by the Acts of July 4, 1955, as amended (43 U.S.C.^ 421a-421d), and August 6, 1956 (43 U.S.C. 422a- 69 Stat. 244. 422k), as amended, including expenses necessary for carrving out the 7o Stat. 1044. program, $5,650,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That any contract under the Act of July 4, 1955 (69 Stat. 244), as amended, not yet executed by the Secretary, which calls for the mak43 USC 421a. ing of loans beyond the fiscal year in which the contract is entered into '*^^'^" shall be made only on the same conditions as those prescribed in section 12 of the Act of August 4, 1939 (53 Stat. 1187, 1197). 43 USC 388. EMERGENCY
FUND
For an additional amount for the "Emergency fund", as authorized by the Act of June 26, 1948 (43 U.S.C. 502), to remain available until expended for the purposes specified in said Act, $1,000,000, to be derived from the reclamation fund. GENERAL
ADMINISTRATIVE
^2 Stat. 1052.
EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of general administration and related functions in the offices of the Commissioner of Reclamation and in the iregional offices of the Bureau of Reclamation, $12,700,000, to be derived from the reclamation fund and to be nonreimbursable pursuant to the Act of April 19, 1945 (43 U.S.C. 377): Provided, That no part of any other appropriation in this Act shall be available for activities or functions budgeted for the current fiscal year as general administrative expenses.
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SPECIAL F U N D S
Sums herein referred to as being derived from the reclamation fund, the Colorado River Dam fund, or the Colorado River development fund, are appropriated from the special funds in the Treasury created by the Act of June 17, 1902 (43 U.S.C. 391), the Act of December 21, 1928 (43 U.S.C. 6l7a), and the Act of July 19, 1940 (43 U.S.C. 618a), respectively. Such sums shall be transferred, upon request of the Secretary, to be merged with and expended under the heads herein specified; and the unexpended balances of sums transferred for expenditure under the heads "Operation and Maintenance" and "General Administrative Expenses" shall revert and be credited to the special fund from which derived.
22 Stat. 388. 45 Stat. 1057. 54 Stat. 774.
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