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FIRST DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION ACT, 1936 AND 1937 631

forty-five per centum of the cost of the project. Nothing herein shall be construed to increase the amount of notes, bonds, debentures, and other such obligations which the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is authorized and empowered under existing law to issue and to have outstanding at any one time, and nothing herein shall be construed to limit or curtail in any way any powers which the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works or the Admin istrator is now authorized to exercise.

Any person who knowingly and with intent to defraud the United States makes any false statement in connection with any application for any project, employment, or relief aid under the foregoing appropriation, or diverts, or attempts to divert, or assists in diverting for the benefit of any person or persons not entitled thereto, any portion of the foregoing appropriation, or any services or real or personal property acquired thereunder, or who knowingly, by means of any fraud, force, threat, intimidation, or boycott, or discrimination on account of race, religion, or political affiliations, deprives any person of any of the benefits to which he may be entitled under the foregoing appropriation, or attempts so to do, or assists in so doing, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

No part of the foregoing appropriation shall be used to pay the salary or expenses of any person who is a candidate for any State, District, County or Municipal office (such office requiring full time of such person and to which office a salary attaches), in any primary, general or special election, or who is serving as a campaign manager or assistant thereto for any such candidate.

The provisions of the Act of February 15, 1934 (48 Stat. 351), relating to disability or death compensation and benefits shall apply to persons (except administrative employees qualifying as civil employees of the United States) receiving compensation from the foregoing appropriation for services rendered as employees of the United States, and to persons receiving assistance in the form of payments from the United States for services rendered under the National Youth Administration, created by Executive order of June 26, 1935: Provided, That so much of the foregoing appropriation as the United States Employees' Compensation Commission, with the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, estimates and certifies to the Secretary of the Treasury will be necessary for the payment of such compensation and administrative expenses shall be set aside in a special fund to be administered by the Commission for such purposes; and after June 30, 1937, such special fund shall be available. for such purposes annually in such amounts as may be specified therefor in the annual appropriation Acts: Provided further, That this paragraph shall also apply to persons employed and paid by the United States in those States in which the Federal Relief Administrator assumed control under section 3 (b) of the Federal Emergency Relief Act of 1933 but such compensation shall be limited to fatal cases and permanent partial and permanent total disability cases where claim is filed within one year from the date of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That this paragraph shall not apply in any case coming within the purview of the workmen's compensa

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tion law of any State or Territory, or in which the claimant has received or is entitled to receive similar benefits for injury or death. So much of the foregoing appropriation as may be determined by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget to be necessary for administrative expenses of any department, establishment, or agency of the United States for additional work incident to carrying out of the purposes of the foregoing appropriation shall be allotted by the President and shall remain available to such agencies until June 30, 1938; the funds so allotted shall be available for expenditure for the same purposes for which funds have been allotted for administrative expenses under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935.

The provisions of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) shall not apply to any purchase made or service procured in connection with the foregoing appropriation when the aggregate amount involved is less than $300.

Any Administrator or other officer named to have general supervision at the seat of Government over the program and work contemplated under the foregoing appropriation and receiving a salary of $5,000 or more per annum from such appropriation, and any State or regional administrator receiving a salary of $5,000 or more per annum from such appropriation, except persons now serving as such under other law, shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate: Provided, That the provisions of section 1761 of the Revised Statutes shall not apply to any such appointee and the salary of any person so appointed shall not be increased for a period of six months after confirmation.

The Federal Emergency Relief Administrator is hereby authorized and directed to liquidate and wind up the affairs of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration under the Act of May 12, 1933, as amended, and funds available to it shall be available for expenditure for such purpose until June 30, 1937.

A report of the operations under the foregoing appropriation shall be submitted by the President to Congress before the 10th day of January in each of the next two regular sessions of Congress. which report shall include a statement of the expenditures made and obligations incurred, by classes and amounts.

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Furniture, furnishings, and equipment, new Interior Department Building: The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to expend, directly or through the Procurement Division of the Treas ury Department, for furniture, furnishings, and office equipment necessary to the occupancy of the new Interior Department Building, and the reassignment of space in the present Interior Department Building, and for services, supplies, material, and equipment. including the reconditioning of old furniture, and necessary travel and subsistence in connection with the inspection of commodities to be contracted for or purchased, not to exceed $225,000 of the amount

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made available for the construction of the new Interior Department Building: Provided, That, in the procurement of such furniture, furnishings, and equipment, the Secretary of the Interior or the said Procurement Division is hereby authorized to make contracts, after advertising and competitive bidding, without regard to section 4 of the Act approved June 17, 1910 (36 Stat. 531): And provided further, That the cost of furniture, furnishings, and equipment, exclusive of duplicating and filing equipment in areas devoted exclusively to such purposes, shall be based on the square-foot areas of the rooms to be furnished and equipped, and shall not exceed the rates herein set forth, as follows: For suites of the Secretary and the Under Secretary, $1.75 per square foot; for suites of the Assistant Secretaries and of executive officers of equivalent compensation grade, $1.50 per square foot; for all other space, $1 per square foot.

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BUREAU OF RECLAMATION

North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming: Not to exceed $50,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal years 1936 and 1937 for the construction of an additional power circuit between the Guernsey and Lingle power plants.

Central Valley project, California: For continuation, $6,900,000, to remain available until June 30, 1937, of which $6,000,000 shall be available for construction of Friant Reservoir and irrigation facilities therefrom in the San Joaquin Basin and $250,000 for administrative expenses (including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere), to be available for the same purposes as those specified for projects included in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1937 under the caption "Bureau of Reclamation" and to be reimbursable under the Reclamation Law: Provided, That not to exceed $25,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.

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INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES, COMMISSIONS, BUREAUS, AND SO FORTH

International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico, United States Section-Rio Grande Diversion Dam: For beginning the construction of a diversion dam in the Rio Grande wholly in the United States, with appurtenant connections to existing irrigation systems, as authorized by law, fiscal year 1937, $1,000,000, under a total estimated cost not to exceed $1,400,000, to be immediately available and to be available also for the same objects of expenditure and under the same authority specified for other projects of the Commission in the second paragraph under the caption "International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico" contained in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1937.

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AMENDING EMERGENCY FARM MORTGAGE ACT OF 1933

An act to amend section 36 of the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act of 1933, as amended. (Act of June 22, 1936, 49 Stat. 1818)

SEC. 1. That the first two sentences of section 36 of the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act of 1933, as amended, are amended to read as follows:

"The Reconstruction Finance Corporation is authorized and empowered to make loans as hereinafter provided, in an aggregate amount not exceeding $125,000,000, including commitments and disbursements heretofore made, to or for the benefit of drainage districts, levee districts, levee and drainage districts, irrigation districts, and similar districts, mutual nonprofit companies and incorporated water-users' associations duly organized under the laws of any State or Territory, and to or for the benefit of political subdivisions of States and Territories which have or propose to purchase or otherwise acquire projects or portions thereof devoted chiefly to the improvement of lands for agricultural purposes. Such loans shall be made for the purpose of enabling any such district, political subdivision, company, or association (hereafter referred to as the "borrower") to reduce and refinance its outstanding indebtedness incurred in connection with any such project; or, whether or not it has any such indebtedness, to purchase, acquire, construct, or complete such a project or any part thereof, or to purchase or acquire additional drainage, levee, or irrigation works, or property, rights, or appurtenances in connection therewith, and to repair, extend, or improve any such project or make such additions thereto as are consonant with or necessary or desirable for the proper functioning thereof or for the further assurance of the ability of the borrower to repay its loan: Provided, That the terms of this Act shall not permit additional or new land to be brought into production outside of the present boundaries of any established or reorganized irrigation district."

SEC. 2. Such section is further amended by striking out the sentence therein which reads as follows: "When any loan is authorized pursuant to the provisions of this section and it shall then or thereafter appear that repairs and necessary extensions or improvements to the project of such district, political subdivision, company, or association are necessary or desirable for the proper functioning of its project or for the further assurance of its ability to repay such loan, and if it shall also appear that such repairs and necessary extensions or improvements are not designed to bring new lands into production, the Corporation, within the limitation as to total amount provided in this section, may make an additional loan or loans to such district, political subdivision, company, or association for such purpose or purposes."

SURVEY OF SURPLUS WATERS OF SAN JUAN RIVER

An act to provide for an examination and survey to determine the best utilization of the surplus waters of the San Juan River and the Animas River and to determine the feasibility and cost of storing such waters and of diverting them to the Rio Chama and Rio Grande. (Act of June 22, 1936, 49 Stat. 1806)

[SEC. 1. Survey of surplus water of San Juan River-$50,000 authorized, $17,500 of which may be expended on survey of Animas River.]--That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause an examination and survey to be made to determine the best utilization of the surplus waters of the San Juan River, a tributary of the Colorado River, and to determine the best possible use of such waters in the San Juan Basin without injury to the present users of the waters of the San Juan River and by diversion if feasible of a portion of such surplus waters to the Rio Chama, a tributary of the Rio Grande River, and to report the results of such surveys and examinations to the Congress as soon as possible. There is authorized to be appropriated the sum of $50,000, or so much thereof may be necessary, to carry out the purposes of this Act, Provided, That $17,500 of the above sum may be expended for a similar examination and survey of the surplus waters of the Animas River, a tributary of the Rio Grande River, with a view to the diversion, if feasible, of a portion of such surplus waters to the Rio Grande River.

NOTE

"Rio Grande" in the third line of the proviso is an error. The name of the river is Colorado.

1 So in original.

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