43 U.S.C. § 397 : US Code - Section 397: Advances by Government for completion of projects initiated prior to June 25, 1910

Search 43 U.S.C. § 397 : US Code - Section 397: Advances by Government for completion of projects initiated prior to June 25, 1910

To enable the Secretary of the Interior to complete Government
reclamation projects begun prior to June 25, 1910, the Secretary of
the Treasury is authorized, as of June 25, 1910, upon request of
the Secretary of the Interior, to transfer from time to time to the
credit of the reclamation fund created by section 391 of this
title, such sum or sums, not exceeding in the aggregate
$20,000,000, as the Secretary of the Interior may deem necessary to
complete the said reclamation projects, and such extensions thereof
as he may deem proper and necessary to the successful and
profitable operation and maintenance thereof or to protect water
rights pertaining thereto claimed by the United States, provided
the same shall be approved by the President of the United States;
and such sum or sums as may be required to comply with the
foregoing authority are appropriated, as of June 25, 1910, out of
any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided,
That the sums authorized to be transferred to the reclamation fund
shall be so transferred only as such sums shall be actually needed
to meet payments for work performed under existing law: And
provided further, That all sums so transferred shall be reimbursed
to the Treasury from the reclamation fund, as hereinafter provided:
And provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be
expended upon any project existing June 25, 1910, until it shall
have been examined and reported upon by a board of engineer
officers of the Army, designated by the President of the United
States, and until it shall be approved by the President as feasible
and practicable and worthy of such expenditure; nor shall any
portion of this appropriation be expended upon any project
initiated after June 25, 1910.