626 INTERIOR DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION ACT, 1937 tion or operation and maintenance cost payable by the water users under the projects, $75,000; Limitation of expenditures: Under the provisions of this Act no greater sum shall be expended, nor shall the United States be obligated to expend during the fiscal year 1937, on any reclamation project 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 1937 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, $1,168,600. 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), the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year 1936 is continued available for the fiscal year 1937. Construction: For continuation of construction of the following projects in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively, to be expended from the Reclamation Fund under the same general conditions as those specified for projects hereinbefore included under the caption "Bureau of Reclamation" and payable from the Reclamation Fund: Gila project, Arizona, $1,250,000; Salt River project, Arizona, $1,500,000; Grand Valley project, Colorado, $200,000; Pine River project, Colorado, $1,000,000; Boise project, Idaho, Payette division, $1,000,000; Boise project, Idaho, drainage, $160,000; Carlsbad project, New Mexico, $900,000; Deschutes project, Oregon, $450,000; Owyhee project, Oregon, $200,000; Yakima project, Washington, Roza division, $1,000,000; Casper-Alcova project, Wyoming, $1,000,000; Riverton project, Wyoming, $250,000; Shoshone project, Wyoming, Heart Mountain division, $700,000; For administrative expenses on account of the above projects, including personal services and other expenses in the District of Columbia and in the field, $750,000, in addition to and for the same objects of expenditure as enumerated in paragraphs 2 and 3 under the cap INTERIOR DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION ACT, 1937 627 tion "Bureau of Reclamation"; in all, $10,860,000, to be immediately available: Provided, That of this amount not to exceed $75,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided further, That the last line of section 10 of the Act of April 1, 1932 (47 Stat., 75), as amended by the Act of March 3, 1933 (47 Stat., 1427), is hereby further amended by substituting "1938" for "1936". Grand Coulee Dam, Washington: For continuation of construction of the Grand Coulee dam, $20,000,000; for administrative expenses, $750,000, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field; in all, $20,750,000, to be immediately available and to be available for the same purposes as those specified for projects hereinbefore included under the caption "Bureau of Reclamation", and to be reimbursable under the reclamation law: Provided, That not to exceed $75,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available for the employment of personal services without regard to the civil-service laws and the Classification Act of 1923, as amended: Provided further, That the obligations for the construction of the Grand Coulee dam and appurtenant works, including those heretofore entered into, shall not exceed a total of $63,000,000, and no obligations in excess of that amount shall be incurred for such dam, or dams, canals, structures, or incidental works in connection therewith under section two of the Rivers and Harbors Act, approved August 30, 1935 (49 Stat., 1039, 1040), until appropriations, or contract authorizations, or both, therefor are hereafter specifically granted by Congress. Boulder Canyon project: For the continuation of construction of the Boulder Canyon 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., title 43, ch. 12A); $9,600,000, 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 (not to exceed $25,000) and in the field without regard to the civil-service laws and the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and for all other objects of expenditure that are specified for projects included in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1937, under the caption "Bureau of Reclamation": Provided, That not to exceed $350,000 from revenues shall be available for the operation and maintenance of the Boulder dam, power plant, and other incidental operations. Boulder Canyon project (All-American Canal): For continuation of construction of a diversion dam, and main canal (and appurtenant structures) located entirely within the United States connecting the diversion dam with the Imperial and Coachella Valleys in California; to acquire by proceedings in eminent domain, or other 628 INTERIOR DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION ACT, 1937 wise, 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. Š. C., title 43, ch. 12A); to be immediately available and to remain available until advanced to the Colorado River Dam Fund, $6,500,000, which amount shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $15,000) and in the field without regard to the civilservice laws and the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and for all other objects of expenditure that are specified for projects included in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1937 under the caption "Bureau of Reclamation". No part of any appropriation in this Act for the Bureau of Reclamation shall be used for investigations to determine the economic and financial feasibility of any new reclamation project. Boulder Canyon project, Arizona and Nevada: For administration, protection, and maintenance of the recreational activities of the Boulder Canyon project and any lands that may be added thereto by Presidential or other authority, including not exceeding $1,050 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, $10,000. Appropriations herein made for the Department of the Interior shall be available for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of vehicles generally known as quarter-ton or half-ton pick-up trucks without such trucks being considered as passenger-carrying vehicles and without the cost of purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair being included in the limitation in the various appropriation items for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles. SPECIAL PROVISIONS OF THE FIRST DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION ACT, FISCAL YEARS 1936 AND 1937 [Extracts from] An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1936, and June 30, 1937, and for other purposes. (Act of June 22, 1936, 49 Stat. 1597) This title may be cited as the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1936. To continue to provide relief, and work relief on useful projects, in the United States and its Territories and possessions (including projects heretofore approved for the Works Progress Administration which projects shall not be subject to the limitations hereinafter specified in this paragraph), $1,425,000,000, to be used in the discretion and under the direction of the President, together with such unexpended balances of funds appropriated and made available by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 as the President may determine, which are hereby reappropriated and made available for the purposes of this paragraph, to remain available until June 30, 1937 (except as herein otherwise authorized): Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the following classes of public projects, Federal and non-Federal, and the amounts to be used for each class shall not, except as hereinafter provided, exceed the respective amounts stated, namely: (a) Highways, roads, and streets, $413,250,000; (b) public buildings, $156,750,000; (c) parks and other recreational facilities, including buildings therein, $156,750.000; (d) public utilities, including sewer systems, water supply and purification, airports, and other transportation facilities, $171,000,000; (e) flood control and other conservation, $128,250,000; (f) assistance for educational, professional, and clerical persons, $85,500,000; (g) women's projects, $85,500,000; (h) miscellaneous work projects, $71,250,000; (i) National Youth Administration, $71,250,000; and (j) rural rehabilitation, loans and relief to farmers and livestock growers, $85,500,000: Provided further, That the amount specified for any of the foregoing classes may be increased proportionately in accordance with the amount of such unexpended balances of funds as the President may transfer from the funds appropriated and made available by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 for the purpose of this paragraph: Provided further, That the amount specified for any of the foregoing classes may be increased by not to exceed 15 per centum thereof by transfer of an amount or amounts from any other class or classes in order to effectuate the purposes of the foregoing appropriation. 630 FIRST DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION ACT, 1936 AND 1937 The departments, agencies, or establishments having supervision of projects for which funds from the foregoing appropriation are made available shall not knowingly employ aliens illegally within the limits of the continental United States on such projects and they shall make every reasonable effort consistent with prompt employment of the destitute unemployed to see that such aliens are not employed, and if employed and their status as such alien is disclosed they shall thereupon be discharged. No Federal project shall be undertaken or prosecuted under the foregoing appropriation unless and until an amount sufficient for its completion has been allocated and irrevocably set aside for its completion. Appointments to Federal positions of an administrative or advis ory capacity under the foregoing appropriation in any State shall be made from among the bona-fide residents of that State so far as not inconsistent with efficient administration. The rates of pay for persons engaged upon projects under the foregoing appropriation shall be not less than the prevailing rates of pay for work of a similar nature as determined by the Works Progress Administration with the approval of the President. The President is authorized to prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of the foregoing appropriation: Provided, however, That in the employment of persons, applicants in actual need whose names have not heretofore been placed on relief rolls shall be given the same eligibility for employment as applicants whose names have heretofore appeared on such rolls: Provided further. That the fact that a person is entitled to or has received either adjusted-service bonds or a Treasury check in payment of an adjusted-compensation certificate shall not be considered in determining actual need of such employment. In carrying out the purpose of the foregoing appropriation the President is authorized to utilize agencies within the Government and to empower such agencies to prescribe rules and regulations to carry out the functions delegated to such agencies by the President. In order to increase employment by providing for useful public works projects of the kind and character for which the Federal Emergency Administrator of Public Works (hereinafter called the Administrator) has heretofore made loans or grants pursuant to Title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act or the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, the Administrator may, upon the direction of the President, use not to exceed $300,000,000 from funds on hand or to be received from the sale of securities, for the making of grants, to aid in the financing of such projects: Provided. That no part of the sum made available by this paragraph shall be granted for any project unless, in the determination of the Administrator, the completion thereof can be substantially accomplished prior to July 1, 1938, and adequate provision has been made or is assured for financing such part of the entire cost thereof as is not to be supplied through the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works: Provided further, That this limitation upon time shall not apply to any project enjoined in any Federal or State court: Provided further, That in no case shall the amount of the grant exceed |