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ject appropriated for herein, an amount in excess of the sum herein appropriated therefor, nor shall the whole expenditures or obligations incurred for all of such projects for the fiscal year 1934 exceed the whole amount in the "reclamation fund" for the fiscal year;

Interchange of appropriations: Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditures on the reclamation projects named; but not more than 10 per centum shall be added to the amount appropriated for any one of said projects, except that should existing works or the water supply for lands under cultivation be endangered by floods or other unusual conditions an amount sufficient to make necessary emergency repairs shall become available for expenditure by further transfer of appropriation from any of said projects upon approval of the Secretary of the Interior; Total from reclamation fund, $3,003,000.

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, subject only to section 4 of the act entitled "An act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes", approved January 21, 1927 (44 Stat., p. 1010), $48,000, to be immediately available, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year 1933.

Boulder Canyon project: For the continuation of construction of the Hoover (Boulder) Dam and incidental works in the main stream of the Colorado River at Black Canyon, to create a storage reservoir, and of a complete plant and incidental structures suitable for the fullest economic development of electrical energy from the water discharged from such reservoir; to acquire by proceedings in eminent domain, or otherwise all lands, rights-of-way, and other property necessary for such purposes; and for incidental operations, as authorized by the Boulder Canyon Project Act, approved December 21, 1928 (U. S. C., supp. V, title 43, ch. 12A): $8,000,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until advanced to the Colorado River Dam fund, which amount shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia and for all other objects of expenditure that are specified for projects included in this act under the caption "Bureau of Reclamation" without regard to the limitations of amounts therein set forth: Provided, That of this fund not to exceed $18,000 shall be available for the erection, operation, and maintenance of necessary school buildings and appurtenances on the Boulder Canyon project Federal reservation, and for the purchase and repair of required desks, furnishings, including maps, globes, stationery, books, schoolroom equipment, and other suitable facilities: Provided further, That of this fund not to exceed $50,000, reimbursable, shall be available for investigation and reports as authorized by section 15 of the Boulder Canyon Project Act: Provided further, That no part of any appropriation in this act for the Bureau of Reclamation shall be used for investigations to determine the economic and/or financial feasibility of any new reclamation project (47 Stat. 845).

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NOTE

Brogan and Baker projects, Oregon,-In decision A-49530 dated July 13, 1933, in referring to the Congressional Record of December 22, 1932, the Comptroller General stated, with reference to the amendment omitting the word "new" from the item for cooperative and general investigations and to the amendment which became the proviso as a part of the appropriation for the Boulder Canyon project in the appropriation act dated February 17, 1933 (47 Stat. 845): "The legislative history of the amendments in question, particularly the provision that no money should be used for investigation of any new reclamation project, would indicate that the intent was to include in the term 'new reclamation project' only nonexisting projects and that it was not the intent to include within that term all existing projects in the development of which the Federal Government had not taken part. Considered upon that basis in such cases where there is an existing project, whether developed by private enterprises or by local communities or otherwise, there is not involved a new reclamation project within the meaning of the law here under consideration." The Comptroller General further stated that in the cases of the Brogan and Baker projects (not the Baker project for which appropriations have heretofore been made by Congress) it appears that in both there are existing irrigation projects, having been developed by private enterprise, and the use of the fund appropriated for secondary and economic investigations is not prohibited.

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SEC. 2. Appropriations herein made for field work under the * * Bureau of Reclamation, * * * shall be available for the hire, with or without personal services, of work animals and animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles and equipment (47 Stat. 858).

NOTE

In decision A-34571, dated January 10, 1934, the Comptroller ruled that inasmuch as funds were made available under the National Industrial Recovery Act to carry out the projects for which appropriations were made under the act of February 17, 1933, 47 Stat. 820, from funds in the Reclamation Fund, the unexpended balances in the Reclamation Fund may be used only for such objects and in such amounts as may be specifically authorized by the Congress.

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MORATORIUM ON CONSTRUCTION CHARGES FOR 1932 AND 1933

An act to extend the operation of the act entitled "An act for the temporary relief of water users on irrigation projects constructed and operated under the reclamation law", approved April 1, 1932. (Act March 3, 1933, 47 Stat. 1427)

[Sec. 1. Provisions of act of April 1, 1932, extended to remaining one-half of charges coming due for 1932 and to all of charges for 1933— Time extended for beginning Uncompahgre drainage system-Time extended for payment of charges on Uncompahgre and Grand Valley projects Interest at 3 percent on deferred charges.]-That in the administration of the act entitled "An act for the temporary relief of water users on irrigation projects constructed and operated under the reclamation law", approved April 1, 1932, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to extend the provisions of such act relating to certain charges coming due for 1931 and to one-half of certain charges due for 1932, in like manner to the remaining onehalf of such charges coming due for 1932 and to all of similar charges to become due for 1933, and to extend the provisions of section 3 of such act, (1) so far as they relate to the extension of time for beginning construction of a drainage system upon the Uncompahgre reclamation project, to one year from and after January 1, 1933, and (2) so far as they relate to certain charges upon or for the Uncompahgre and Grand Valley reclamation projects in the State of Colorado due and payable for the year 1932, in like manner to all similar charges due and payable for the year 1933: Provided, That the deferred charges shall bear interest at the rate of 3 per centum per annum for the years specified in the act approved April 1, 1932, and as amended herein, which interest shall be paid at the same time the principal deferred herein is paid.

SEC. 2. [Section 10 of act of April 1, 1932, amended.]-That the last line of section 10 of said act is amended by substituting "1936" for "1934."

See C. L. 2044 and C. L. 2060.

NOTES

This act is amended by acts of Mar. 27, 1934, 48 Stat. 500, and June 13, 1935, 49 Stat. 337.

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SPECIAL PROVISIONS OF THE TREASURY AND POST OFFICE APPROPRIATION ACT

[Extracts from] An act making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, and for other purposes. (Act of March 3, 1933, 47 Stat. 1520)

SEC. 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and unless the head of the department or independent establishment concerned shall determine it to be inconsistent with the public interest, or the cost to be unreasonable, only such unmanufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been mined or produced in the United States, and only such manufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been manufactured in the United States substantially all from articles, materials, or supplies mined, produced, or manufactured, as the case may be, in the United States, shall be acquired for public use. This section shall not apply with respect to articles, materials, or supplies for use outside the United States, or if articles, materials, or supplies of the class or kind to be used or the articles, materials, or supplies from which they are manufactured are not mined, produced, or manufactured, as the case may be, in the United States in sufficient and reasonably available commercial quantities and of a satisfactory quality.

NOTE

Foreign-made goods, purchase of.-The head of a department or independent establishment may not delegate the discretionary authority conferred on him by the act of Mar. 3, 1933, title III, sec. 2, which prohibits the purchase of foreign materials or supplies unless the head of the department or independent establishment concerned shall determine that the purchase of the domestic materials is inconsistent with the public interest or the cost of the domestic materials is unreasonable. Foreign products may also be purchased if the domestic materials are not mined, produced, or manufactured in the United States in a sufficient and reasonably available commercial quantity and of a satisfactory quality. This second exception does not require action by the head of the department or independent establishment but such showing of facts may be made by a subordinate. Comp. Gen. decision A-58472, Feb. 7, 1935.

SEC. 3. (a) Every contract for the construction, alteration, or repair of any public building or public work in the United States growing out of an appropriation heretofore made or hereafter to be made shall contain a provision that in the performance of the work the contractor, subcontractors, material men, or suppliers, shall use only such unmanufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been mined or produced in the United States, and only such manufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been manufactured in the United States substantially all from articles, materials, or supplies mined, produced, or manufactured, as the case may be, in the

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United States except as provided in section 2: Provided, however, That if the head of the department or independent establishment making the contract shall find that in respect to some particular articles, materials, or supplies it is impracticable to make such requirement or that it would unreasonably increase the cost, an exception shall be noted in the specifications as to that particular article, material, or supply, and a public record made of the findings which justified the exception.

(b) If the head of a department, bureau, agency, or independent establishment which has made any contract containing the provision required by subsection (a) finds that in the performance of such contract there has been a failure to comply with such provisions, he shall make public his findings, including therein the name of the contractor obligated under such contract, and no other contract for the construction, alteration, or repair of any public building or public work in the United States or elsewhere shall be awarded to such contractor, subcontractors, material men, or suppliers with which such contractor is associated or affiliated, within a period of three years after such finding is made public.