179

WAR DEPARTMENT CIVIL APPROPRIATION ACT, 1941

[Extract from] An act making appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, for civil functions administered by the War Department, and for other purposes. of June 24, 1940, 54 Stat. 595)

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HYDROELECTRIC POWER

Power plant, Fort Peck Dam, Montana: For continuing the construction of the hydroelectric power plant at Fort Peck Dam, Montana, as authorized by the Act approved May 18, 1938 (52 Stat. 403), $2,000,000.

Power plant, Bonneville Dam, Columbia River, Oregon: For continuing the construction of the hydroelectric power plant at Bonneville Dam, Columbia River, Oregon, as authorized by the Acts approved August 30, 1935 (49 Stat. 1038), and August 20, 1937 (50 Stat. 731), $3,400,000.

180

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATION ACT FOR 1941

[Extract from] An act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for other purposes. (Act of June 25, 1940, 54 Stat. 532)

WATER FACILITIES, ARID AND SEMIARID AREAS

To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to promote conservation in the arid and semiarid areas of the United States by aiding in the development of facilities for water storage and utilization, and for other purposes", approved August 28, 1937 (16 U.S. C. 590r-590x), including the employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; printing and binding; the purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of passenger-carrying vehicles; and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $500,000, of which not to exceed $25,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided, That not to exceed $50,000 of this appropriation shall be available for expenditure for any one project designed in whole or in part to benefit lands by the irrigation thereof, and all project facilities and appurtenances which depend for their utility in whole or in part upon each other or upon any common facility shall be deemed one project, and the authority contained in said Act shall not be deemed to authorize the construction of any project not in accord with this limitation.

181

LABOR-FEDERAL SECURITY APPROPRIATION ACT, 1941

[Extract from] An act making appropriations for the Department of Labor, the Federal Security Agency, and related independent agencies, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for other purposes. (Act of June 26, 1940, 54 Stat. 574)

CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS

For all authorized and necessary expenses to carry into effect the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to establish a Civilian Conservation Corps, and for other purposes", approved June 28, 1937, as amended, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; the purchase and exchange of lawbooks, books of reference, periodicals, and newspapers; rents in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; the purchase (including exchange), operation, maintenance and repair of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes; hire, with or without personal services, of work animals, animal-drawn and [ motor-propelled vehicles, and watercraft; printing and binding; travel expenses, including not to exceed $2,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the corps when specifically authorized by the Director; construction, improvement, repair, and maintenance of buildings, but the cost of any building erected hereunder shall not exceed $25,000; and all other necessary expenses; of which $176,880,000 shall be available only for pay, subsistence, clothing (and repair thereof), transportation, and hospitalization of enrollees; and $325,000 may be expended in the District of Columbia for salaries and expenses of the office of the Director; $280,000,000: Provided, That an enrollee in the Civilian Conservation Corps, or member, or former member of the Military Establishment, who shall furnish blood from his or her veins for transfusion to the veins of an enrollee or discharged enrollee of the Civilian Conservation Corps undergoing treatment in a Government or civilian hospital authorized to treat such patient, shall be entitled to be paid therefor a reasonable sum not to exceed $50 for each of such transfusions undergone: Provided further, That the Director may authorize the exchange of motor-propelled and horse-drawn vehicles, tractors, road equipment, and boats, and parts, accessories, tires, or equipment thereof, in whole or in part payment for vehicles, tractors, road equipment, or boats, or parts, accessories, tires, or equipment of such vehicles, tractors, road equipment, or boats which the corps has acquired: Provided further, That expenditures under the several classes of objects of expenditure for which this appropriation is available shall not exceed by more than 10 per centum the amounts estimated for such objects of expenditure by classes, in the schedule for the fiscal year 1941 appearing in the Budget for such fiscal year under this head, such amounts to be amended to reflect any proportionate change which each should bear in connection with the total amount appropriated herein, and any such excess up to 10 per centum must be approved in writing by the Federal Security Administrator in such amounts as he shall designate: Provided further, That the foregoing proviso shall not apply, to whatever extent the President shall direct, in the event of an emergency declared, by the President, to exist.

182

APPROPRIATIONS FOR WORK RELIEF AND RELIEF, 1941 [Extract from] An act making appropriations for work relief and relief, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941. (Act of June 26, 1940, 54 Stat. 611)

WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION

SECTION 1. (a) In order to continue to provide work for needy persons on useful public projects in the United States and its Territories and possessions, there is hereby appropriated to the Work Projects Administration, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, $975,650,000, together with all balances of appropriations under section 1 (a) of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1939, which remain unobligated on June 30, 1940, including such unobligated balances of funds transferred to other Federal agencies for nonconstruction projects under the provisions of section 11 (a) of such Act of 1939, or set aside for specific purposes in accordance with other law: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds heretofore irrevocably set aside for the completion of Federal construction projects under authority of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts of 1938 and 1939 shall remain available until June 30, 1941, for such completion, and any such funds which remain unobligated by reason of the completion or abandonment of any such Federal construction project shall be returned to this appropriation: Provided further, That the funds appropriated by this section may be apportioned for a lesser period than the twelve months of the fiscal year 1941, but not for less than eight months, as determined by the President, if in his judgment such action is required to meet unemployment conditions during such lesser period, but the funds so appropriated shall be so administered during such period as to constitute the total amount that will be furnished to such Administration during such period.

(b) The funds provided in this section shall be available for (1) administration; (2) the prosecution of projects approved by the President under the provisions of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts of 1937, 1938, and 1939; and (3) the prosecution of the following types of public projects, Federal and non-Federal, subject to the approval of the President, namely: Highways, roads, and streets; public buildings; parks, and other recreational facilities, including buildings therein; public utilities; electric transmission and distribution lines or systems to serve persons in rural areas, including projects sponsored by and for the benefit of nonprofit and cooperatve associations; sewer systems, water supply, and purification systems; airports and other transportation facilities; flood control; drainage; irrigation, including projects sponsored by community ditch organizations; water conservation; soil conservation, including projects sponsored by soil conservation districts and other bodies duly organized under State law for soil erosion control and soil conservation, preference being given to projects which will contribute to the rehabilitation of individuals and an increase in the national income; * *

183

AUTHORIZATION OF DETAIL OF EMPLOYEE

An act authorizing the temporary detail of John L. Savage, an employee of the United States, to service under the Government of the State of New South Wales, Australia, and the Government of the Punjab, India. (Act of June 29, 1940, 54 Stat. 691)

That the President of the United States is authorized, if he finds that the public interest renders such a course advisable, to detail J. L. Savage, chief designing engineer of the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior, for temporary service under the Government of the State of New South Wales, Australia, and the Government of the Punjab, India. Such detail, if authorized by the President, shall be made in accordance with and subject to the provisions of the Act of May 25, 1938 (52 Stat. 442), as amended May 3, 1939 (Public, Numbered 63, Seventy-sixth Congress).