Grand Valley project, Colorado: For operation and maintenance, $50,000; continuation of construction, $30,000; in all, $80,000; Uncompahgre project, Colorado: For operation and maintenance, $145,000;

Boise project, Idaho: For continuation of investigation and 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, $16,000; for investigations, examination and surveys, Payette division, $16,000; for continuation of construction, Arrowrock division, $100,000;

Minidoka project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, reserved works, $71,000; continuation of construction, $75,000; in all, $146,000;

Minidoka project, American Falls Reservoir, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, American Falls water system, $9,000; for acquiring rights of way, $8,000; construction of power plant, $700,000; investigation and construction of gravity extension unit, $400,000: Provided, That none of the said sum of $400,000 shall be available for construction work until a contract or contracts shall be made with an irrigation district or districts embracing said unit which, in addition to other conditions required by law, shall require repayment of construction costs as to such lands as may be furnished supplemental water, within a period not exceeding twenty years from the date water shall be available for delivery; in all, $1,117,000; Huntley project, Montana: Not to exceed $60,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $118,000 for the fiscal year 1926, made available by the act of March 3, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes, page 1166), and heretofore made available for the fiscal year 1927, shall remain available for the fiscal year 1928;

Milk River project, Montana: For operation and maintenance, $36,800; continuation of construction, $15,000; in all, $51,800;

Sun River project, Montana: For operation and maintenance, $20,000; continuation of construction, Greenfields division, $37,000; continuation of construction, Gibson Dam, $1,000,000; in all, $1,057,000;

Lower Yellowstone project, Montana-North Dakota: For continuation of construction of drainage system, $100,000;

North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming: For operation and maintenance of reserved works, $75,000; continuation of construction of Guernsey Dam, $200,000; in all, $275,000: Provided, That of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1927 there is reappropriated for continuation of construction of the Guernsey power plant, $150,000; and for continuation of construction of drainage, $100,000; in all, $250,000;

Newlands project, Nevada: For operation and maintenance, $125,000; continuation of construction, $64,000; in all, $189,000: Provided, That no part of this amount shall be available for the reconstruction of the Truckee Canal unless a contract in form approved by the Secretary of the Interior shall have been made with the Truckee-Carson irrigation district providing for the payment of the reconstruction cost: Provided further, That the appro

priation of $245,000 made available by the act of June 5, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes, page 415), and reappropriated for the fiscal year 1926 by the act of March 3, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes, page 1167), shall remain available for the fiscal year 1928 for use for drainage purposes, but only after execution by the Truckee-Carson irrigation district of an appropriate reimbursement contract satisfactory in form to the Secretary of the Interior and confirmation of such contract by decree of a court of competent jurisdiction and final decision on all appeals from such decree;

For the survey and examination of water storage reservoir sites on the headwaters of the Truckee River, investigation of dam sites at such storage reservoirs, examination and survey of lands susceptible of irrigation from waters that may be practicably so impounded, and estimates of costs, reports, and recommendations with regard thereto, $50,000;

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, $400,000; in all, $750,000;

Owyhee project, Oregon: For continued investigations and commencement or continuation of construction, $2,000,000;

Umatilla project, Oregon: For operation and maintenance of reserved works, $10,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1927 shall remain available for the fiscal year 1928;

Baker project, Oregon: For commencement of construction, $450,000;

Vale project, Oregon: For continuation of construction, $850,000, of which amount not more than $100,000 shall be available for the purchase of a proportionate interest in the existing storage reservoir of the Warm Springs project, and the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year 1927 shall remain available for the fiscal year 1928;

Klamath project, Oregon-California: Of the unexpended, balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year 1927 there is reappropriated for operation and maintenance, $102,000; continuation of construction, $124,000; in all, $226,000;

Belle Fourche project, South Dakota: For continuation of construction of drainage, $125,000: Provided, That no part of this amount shall be available unless a contract or contracts in form approved by the Secretary of the Interior shall have been made with an irrigation district or districts organized under State law providing for payment of construction and operation and maintenance charges by such district or districts;

Salt Lake Basin project, Utah, first division: For continued investigations, construction of Echo Reservoir, Utah Lake control and Weber-Provo Canal, the unexpended balance of any appropriation available for these purposes for the fiscal year 1927 shall be available during the fiscal year 1928;

Okanogan project, Washington: For operation and maintenance,

Yakima project, Washington: For operation and maintenance, $288,000;

Yakima project (Kittitas division), Washington: For continuation of construction and operation and maintenance, $2,000,000;

Riverton project, Wyoming: For operation and maintenance, $55,000;

Shoshone project, Wyoming: For continuation of construction of drainage, Garland division, $150,000: 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, $12,500; of the Willwood division, $10,000; and of the power plant, $15,000; in all, $37,500: Provided further, That the expenditures in the fiscal year 1928 for operation and maintenance of the Willwood division shall in no case exceed $20,000, including advances by water users;

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, $100,000: 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 1928, 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 1928 exceed the whole amount in the reclamation fund" for the fiscal year;

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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, 1928, 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, $11,798,800.

For the share of the Government of the United States of the costs of operating and maintaining the Colorado River front work and levee system adjacent to the Yuma Federal irrigation project in Arizona and California, as authorized by the act entitled "An act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes," approved March 3, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes, page 1186), $35,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be transferred to the reclamation fund, special fund, created by the act of June 17, 1902 (Thirty-second Statutes, page 388), and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with the provisions applicable to appropriations made for the fiscal year 1928 from the reclamation fund.

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 under the second 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.

SEC. 2. Appropriations herein made for field work under the * * * Bureau of Reclamation, * * * shall be available for the hire, with or without personal services, of work animals and animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles and equipment.

YUMA PROJECT, COLORADO RIVER LEVEE SYSTEM

[Extract from] An act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes. (Act January 21, 1927, Pub. No. 560, 69th Congress)

[Colorado River front work-Annual appropriation authorized.]-That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and annually thereafter, the sum of $100,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be spent by the Reclamation Bureau under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, 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.

Section 16 (c), act approved March 3, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes at Large, page 1198), is hereby repealed.