Lower Colorado, and Tia Juana Rivers as authorized by the act of March 3, 1927, shall be covered into the Treasury. (45 Štat. 29.)

SEC. 6. Appropriations for the fiscal years 1926, 1927, 1928, and 1929 available for expenses of travel of civilian officers and employees of the executive departments and establishments shall be available also for expenses of travel performed by them on transfer from one official station to another when authorized by the head of the department or establishment concerned in the order directing such transfer: Provided, That such expenses shall not be allowed for any transfer effected for the convenience of any officer or employee. (45 Stat. 50.)

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In all cases in which it is proposed to charge the expense of transfers to the Government, administrative authorities covering such transfers should contain a showing, by proper certificate or otherwise, that the transfer was not made for the convenience of the employee. (7 Comp. Gen. 550.)

See note on page 67, under the head of Travel Expense.

SPECIAL PROVISIONS OF THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION ACT FOR 1929

[Extracts from] An act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, and for other purposes. (Act March 7, 1928, ch. 137, 45 Stat. 200)

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Provided further, That no part of any sum provided for in this act for operation and maintenance of any project or division of a project by the Bureau of Reclamation shall be used for the irrigation of any lands within the boundaries of an irrigation district which has contracted with the Bureau of Reclamation and which is in arrears for more than twelve months in the payment of any charges due the United States, and no part of any sum provided for in this act for such purpose shall be used for the irrigation of any lands which have contracted with the Bureau of Reclamation and which are in arrears for more than twelve months in the payment of any charges due from said lands to the United States.

Examination and inspection of projects: For examination of accounts and inspection of the works of various projects and divisions of projects operated and maintained by irrigation districts or water-users' associations, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for these purposes for the fiscal year 1928 is reappropriated for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1929.

For operation and maintenance of the reserved works of a project or division of a project when irrigation districts, water-users' associations, or Warren Act contractors have contracted to pay in advance but have failed to pay their proportionate share of the cost of such operation and maintenance, to be expended under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, $75,000.

Yuma project, Arizona-California: For operation and maintenance, $255,000; for continuation of construction of drainage, $20,000; for continuation of construction of protective works at Picacho and unnamed washes, $30,000; in all, $305,000: Provided, That of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $200,000 for the Yuma auxiliary project, contained in the second deficiency act, fiscal year 1925 (Forty-third Statutes at Large, page 1330), $35,000 is hereby made available for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1929: Provided further, That not to exceed $25,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1929 for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system.

Orland project, California: For operation and maintenance, $36,000: Provided, That the unexpected balance of the appropriation of $605,000 for construction of Stony Gorge Reservoir, con

tained in the act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year 1928 (Forty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 934), shall remain available for the fiscal year 1929 for completion of construction.

Grand Valley project, Colorado: For operation and maintenance, $50,000; continuation of construction, $25,000; in all, $75,000.

Boise project, Idaho: For continuation of construction, Payette division, $400,000: Provided, That of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1927 there is reappropriated for operation and maintenance, Payette division, $17,000; for investigations, examination, and surveys, Payette division, $18,000; for continuation of construction, Arrowrock and Payette divisions, $75,000.

Minidoka project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, reserved works, $29,000; continuation of construction, $1,075,000: Provided, That not to exceed $50,000 from the power revenues shall be avail able during the fiscal year 1929, for the operation of the commercial system; in all, $1,104,000.

Minidoka project, American Falls Reservoir, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, American Falls water system, $12,000; for acquiring rights of way, $5,000; construction of power plant, $550,000; in all, $567,000: Provided, That the unexpended balance of $700,000 for construction of power plant, contained in the act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year 1928 (Forty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 934), shall remain available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1929.

Milk River project, Montana: For operation and maintenance, $27,000; continuation of construction, $17,000; in all, $44,000.

Sun River project, Montana: For operation and maintenance, $19,500; continuation of construction, $1,139,500; in all, $1,159,000: Provided, That not to exceed $25,000 of the appropriation for continuation of construction, Greenfields division, contained in the act of January 12, 1927 (Forty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 934), shall remain available for drainage construction Greenfields division until June 30, 1929.

Lower Yellowstone project, Montana-North Dakota: For continuation of construction of drainage system, $180,000.

North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming: Not to exceed $75,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1929 for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system. Newlands project, Nevada: Not to exceed $100,000 of the appropriation of $125,000 for operation and maintenance contained in the act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year 1928 (Forty-fourth Statutes, page 934), is hereby made available until June 30, 1929, for the reconstruction of the Truckee Canal.

Carlsbad project, New Mexico: For operation and maintenance, $50,000.

Rio Grande project, New Mexico-Texas: For operation and maintenance, $350,000; continuation of construction, $80,000; in all, $430,000: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $400,000 for continuation of construction, contained in the act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the

fiscal year 1928 (Forty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 934), shall remain available for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1929. Owyhee project, Oregon: For continuation of construction, $2,000,000.

Umatilla project, Oregon: For operation and maintenance of reserved works, $5,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1927 shall be available for the fiscal year 1929, and the remainder of said unexpended balance shall be turned back to the reclamation fund upon the approval of this act.

Baker project, Oregon: The unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1928 is reappropriated and made available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1929.

Vale project, Oregon: For operation and maintenance, $6,000; continuation of construction, $744,000, of which amount not more than $150,000 shall be available for the purchase of a proportionate interest in the existing storage reservoir of the Warm Springs project; in all, $750,000.

Klamath project, Oregon-California: For operation and maintenance, $35,000; continuation of construction, $206,000; for refunds to lessees of marginal lands, Tule Lake, which lands because of flooding could not be seeded prior to June 1, 1927, and/or June 1, 1928, $30,000; in all, $271,000.

Belle Fourche project, South Dakota: For continuation of construction, $250,000.

Salt Lake Basin project, Utah, first division: For construction of Echo Reservoir and Weber-Provo Canal, $1,750,000.

Yakima project, Washington: For operation and maintenance, $288,000; continuation of construction, $500,000; in all, $788,000.

Yakima project (Kittitas division), Washington: For continuation of construction and operation and maintenance $1,500,000: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation_of $2,000,000 contained in the act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year 1928 (Forty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 934), shall remain available during the fiscal year 1929.

Riverton project, Wyoming: For operation and maintenance, $30,000; continuation of construction under force account, $400,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1926, which is hereby reappropriated: Provided, That not to exceed $20,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1929 for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system; in all, $430,000.

Shoshone project, Wyoming: For continuation of construction of drainage, Garland division, $115,000; Frannie division, $20,000; Willwood division, $25,000; in all, $160,000: Provided, That of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1927 there is reappropriated for operation and maintenance of the Frannie division, $11,000; and of the Willwood division, $10,000; in all, $21,000: Provided further, That not to exceed $20,000 from the power revenues shall be available during the fiscal year 1929 for the operation and maintenance of the commercial system. Secondary projects: For cooperative and general investigations, $75,000.

For investigations necessary to determine the economic conditions and financial feasibility of new projects and for investigations and other activities relating to the reorganization, settlement of lands, and financial adjustments of existing projects, including examination of soils, classification of land, land-settlement activities, including advertising in newspapers and other publications, and obtaining general economic and settlement data, $75,000: Provided, That the expenditures from this appropriation for any reclamation project shall be considered as supplementary to the appropriation for that project and shall be accounted for and returned to the reclamation fund as other expenditures under the reclamation act.

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 1929, 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 1929 exceed the whole amount in the "reclamation fund" for the fiscal year.

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.

Whenever, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation shall find that the expenses of travel, including the local transportation of employees to and from their homes to the places where they are engaged on construction or operation and maintenance work, can be reduced thereby, he may authorize the payment of not to exceed 3 cents per mile for a motor cycle or 7 cents per mile for an automobile used for necessary official business.

Total, from reclamation fund, $12,644,000.

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 (Forty-fourth Statutes, page 1010), $100,000, to be immediately available.

For investigations to be made by the Secretary of the Interior through the Bureau of Reclamation to obtain necessary information to determine how arid and semiarid, swamp, and cut-over timberlands in any of the States of the United States may be best developed, as authorized by subsection R, section 4, second deficiency act, fiscal year 1924, approved December 5, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes, page 704), including the general objects of expenditure enumerated and permitted in the fourth paragraph in this act under the caption "Bureau of Reclamation," and including mileage for motor cycles and automobiles at the rates and under the conditions authorized herein in connection with the reclamation projects, $15,000.