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of the Secretary of Agriculture, finds that the same should be supplied in assistance of such improvement work, and for which the United States shall be reimbursed in such amounts as the President may fix for each project; and (2) such services, labor, materials, easements, or other property, including money, as may be contributed by any State or political subdivision thereof, State agency, municipal corporation, or other organization, or individuals. Moneys received and accepted under (2) of this subsection shall remain available for expenditure for the purposes for which contributed in like manner as if said sums had been specifically appropriated for said purposes.

(c) Where the aggregate amount involved does not exceed $300 the provisions of section 5 of Title 41 shall not apply to any purchase or service authorized for the Department of Agriculture under sections 590y to 590z-10 of this title or under the 1940 water conservation appropriation. (Aug. 11, 1939, ch. 717, § 5, as added Oct. 14, 1940, ch. 861, 54 Stat. 1122; July 16, 1943, ch. 242, § 6, 57 Stat. 568.)

§ 590z-4. Cooperative agreements with other agencies.-The Secretary, by cooperative agreements, may arrange with the Department of Agriculture or with such other Federal or State agencies, as the President may deem desirable, for cooperation in the investigations and surveys of projects proposed under the authority of sections 590y to 590z-10 of this title; and in connection with any such project which is undertaken the Secretary by such cooperative agreements may arrange for such cooperation in the construction or operation and maintenance of the project as he deems desirable. Any such cooperative agreement with the Department of Agriculture may provide, among other things (1) that the Secretary of Agriculture shall enter into the repayment contracts, required by section 590z-2 and shall handle the collections of repayments and shall take over the other administrative duties connected with the project, after the Secretary of the Interior announces that the project is ready for operation; (2) if such agreement be entered into after construction of the project has been undertaken by the Secretary of the Interior and after he has entered into the repayment contracts required by section 590z-2, that the Secretary of Agriculture shall take over the collection of repayments and other administrative duties connected with the project; (3) that no water shall be delivered to or for any land or party while the owner of said land or said party is in arrears for more than twelve months in the payment to the United States of money due and payable under a land contract entered into pursuant to section 590z-3 (a); and (4) that any repayment contract with a water user or water users' organization entered into pursuant to section 590z-2 and any land contract with the same water user or organization entered into pursuant to section 590z-3 (a), if said contracts involve the same land, may be combined in a single instrument. The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to carry out the provision of any such cooperative agreements. (Aug. 11, 1939, ch. 717, § 6, as added Oct. 14, 1940, ch. 861, 54 Stat. 1123.)

8590z-5. Limitation of expenditures of Federal funds for any one project under sections 590r-590x.-On any one project undertaken pursuant to sections 590r-590x of this title, as amended and supplemented, expenditures for the construction, maintenance, operation, rehabilitation or financial assistance of any one project, shall not exceed $50,000 of Federal funds, whether appropriated or allotted or both. 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 within the meaning of this section. (Aug. 11, 1939, ch. 717, § 7, as added Oct. 14, 1940, ch. 861, 54 Stat. 1124.)

§ 590z-6. Disposition of receipts from repayment contracts and project operations.-All payments made to the United States under repayment contracts on account of reimbursable construction costs, including penalties collected for delinquencies in such payments, and all other receipts from project operations pursuant to sections 590z-2 and 590z-7 shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts. Charges collected during the development period of a project under section 590z-2 (c) (1), excepting such amounts thereof as may be credited to reimbursable construction costs, and charges collected for the operation and maintenance of a project under section 590z-2 (c) (2) shall be available for expenditure for operation and maintenance of said project in like manner as if said funds had been specifically apropriated for said purposes. (Aug. 11, 1939, ch. 717, § 8, as added Oct. 14, 1940, ch. 861, 54 Stat. 1124.)

§ 590z-7. Provisions for furnishing surplus power and municipal or miscellaneous water supplies.-In connection with any project undertaken pursuant to sections 590y to 590z-10 of this title, provisions, including contracts of sale, may be made for furnishing municipal or miscellaneous water supplies, or for developing and furnishing power in addition to the power requirements of irrigation: Provided, That expenditures from appropriations made directly pursuant to the authority contained in section 590z-10 (1) to meet costs allocated to municipal or miscellaneous water supplies or surplus power shall not exceed $500,000 for any one project: Provided further, That no contract relating to a water supply for municipal or miscellaneous purposes or to electric power shall be made unless, in the judgment of the Secretary, it will not impair the efficiency of the project for irrigation purposes. On any project where such provisions are made, the Secretary shall allocate to municipal or miscellaneous water purposes or to surplus power the part of the estimated construction costs of the project which he deems properly so allocable; and such allocations shall not be included in the reimbursable construction costs covered by the repayment contract or contracts required under section 590z-2. All right, title, and interest in the facilities provided for such municipal or miscellaneous water supplies or surplus power and the revenues derived therefrom shall be and remain in the United States. Contracts for such municipal or miscellaneous water supplies or for such surplus power shall be at such rates as, in the Secretary's judgment, will produce revenues at least sufficient

to cover the appropriate share of the annual operation and maintenance cost of the project and such fixed charges, including interest, as the Secretary deems proper. Contracts for sale of surplus power shall be for periods not to exceed forty years and contracts for water supply for municipal or miscellaneous purposes shall be for such periods as the Secretary may determine and may include such renewal options as the Secretary deems desirable: And provided further, That in sales or leases of such power, preference shall be given to municipalities and other public corporations or agencies; and also to cooperatives and other nonprofit organizations financed in whole or in part by loans made pursuant to sections 901-914 of Title 7 and any amendments thereof. (Aug. 11, 1939, ch. 717, § 9, as added Oct. 14, 1940, ch. 861, 54 Stat. 1124.)

§ 590z-8. Authority of Secretary of the Interior over lands, contracts, water rights, etc.-(a) In connection with any project constructed pursuant to the provisions of sections 590y-590z-10 of this title, the Secretary shall have the same authority, with regard to the utilization of lands owned by the United States, other than lands acquired under section 590z-3 as he has in connection with projects undertaken pursuant to the Federal reclamation laws, sections 372, 373, 381, 383, 391, 392, 411, 416, 419, 421, 431, 432, 434, 439, 461, 491, and 498 of this title, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto.

(b) In connection with the construction or operation and maintenance of a project undertaken pursuant to the authority of sections 590y to 590z-10 of this title, the Secretary shall have with respect to construction and supply contracts, and with respect to the acquisition, exchange, and disposition of lands, interest in lands, water rights, and other property and the relocation thereof, the same authority, including authority to acquire lands and interests in land and water rights with titles and at prices satisfactory to him, which he has in connection with projects under the Federal reclamation laws. (Aug. 11, 1939, ch. 717, § 10, as added Oct. 14, 1940, ch. 861, 54 Stat. 1125.)

§ 590z-9. Powers and duties of Secretaries of Interior and Agriculture; rules and regulations.-The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture are hereby authorized to perform any and all Acts' and to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper for the purpose of carrying out their respective functions under sections 590y to 590z-10 of this title and for the purpose of carrying the provisions of sections 590y to 590z-10 of this title into full force and effect. (Aug. 11, 1939, ch. 717, § 11, as added Oct. 14, 1940, ch. 861, 54 Stat. 1125.)

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Delegation of powers and duties of Secretary of Interior, see section 590z-11 of this title.

§ 590z-10. Appropriations. To carry out the purposes of sections 590y to 590z-10 of this title there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other

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wise appropriated (1) for the Department of the Interior such sums as may be necessary to carry out its functions under sections 590y to 590z-10 of this title, and (2) for the Department of Agriculture such sums as may be necessary to carry out its functions under sections 590y to 590z-10 of this title. (Aug. 11, 1939, ch. 717, § 12; Oct. 14, 1940, ch. 861, 54 Stat. 1125.)

§ 590z-11. Delegation of powers and duties by Secretary of Interior. For the purpose of facilitating and simplifying the administration of the Federal reclamation laws (sections 372, 373, 381, 383, 391, 392, 411, 416, 419, 421, 431, 432, 434, 439, 461, 491, and 498 of Title 43 and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto) and sections 590y-590z-10 of this title, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to delegate, from time to time and to the extent and under such regulations as he deems proper, his powers and duties under said laws to the Commissioner of Reclamation, an Assistant Commissioner, or the officer in charge of any office, division, district, or project of the Bureau of Reclamation. (Dec. 19, 1941, ch. 595, 55 Stat. 842.)

PROTECTION OF TIMBER, AND DEPREDATIONS

§ 593. Protection of timber in Florida.-The President is authorized to employ so much of the land and naval forces of the United States as may be necessary effectually to prevent the felling, cutting down, or other destruction of the timber of the United States in Florida, and to prevent the transportation or carrying away any such timber as may be already felled or cut down; and to take such other and further measures as may be deemed advisable for the preservation of the timber of the United States in Florida. (R. S. § 2460.)

DERIVATION

Act Feb. 23, 1822, ch. 9, 3 Stat. 651.

§ 594a. White-pine blister rust control; contributions by local authorities; Indian lands.-To promote the stability of white-pine forest-using industries, employment, and communities through the continuous supply of white- and sugar-pine timber, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized in cooperation with such agencies as he may deem necessary to use such funds as have been, or may hereafter be, made available for the purpose of controlling whitepine blister rust, by preventing the spread to, and eliminating white-pine blister rust from, all forest lands, irrespective of the ownership thereof, when in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture the use of such funds on such lands is necessary in the control of the white-pine blister rust: Provided, That in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture no expenditures from funds provided under this authorization shall be made on private or State lands (except where such lands are intermingled with those which are federally owned and it is necessary in order to protect the property of the United States to work on those parts of the private or State-owned lands that immediately adjoin Federal lands) until a sum, or sums, at least equal to such expenditures shall have been appropriated, subscribed, or contributed

by State, county, or local authorities or by individuals or organizations concerned: Provided further, That no part of such appropriations shall be used to pay the cost or value of property injured or destroyed: And provided further, That any plan for the control and elimination of white-pine blister rust on lands owned by the United States or retained under restriction by the United States for Indian tribes and for individual Indians shall be subject to the approval of the Federal agency or Indian tribe having jurisdiction over such lands, and the Secretary of Agriculture may, in his discretion and out of any moneys made available under this section, make allocations to said Federal agencies in such amounts as he may deem necessary for white-pine blister-rust control and elimination on lands so held or owned by the United States, the moneys so allocated to be expended by said agencies for the purposes specified. (Apr. 26, 1940, ch. 159, 54 Stat. 168.)

§ 604. Cutting timber on certain mineral lands; permits to corporations; railroad corporations.-All citizens of the United States and other persons, bona fide residents of the States of Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho, or Montana, and all other mineral districts of the United States, are authorized and permitted to fell and remove, for building, agricultural, mining, or other domestic purposes, any timber or other trees growing or being on the public lands, said lands being mineral, and not subject to entry under existing laws of the United States, except for mineral entry, in said States or districts of which such citizens or persons may be at the time bona fide residents, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe for the protection of the timber and of the undergrowth growing upon such lands, and for other purposes. It shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Interior to grant permits in accordance with the provisions of this section, to corporations incorporated under a Federal law of the United States or incorporated under the laws of a State or Territory of the United States, other than the State in which the privilege is requested. Such permits to confer the same rights and benefits upon such corporations as are conferred upon corporations incorporated in the State in which the privilege is to be exercised, but all such corporations shall first have complied with the laws of that State so as to entitle them to do business therein. The provisions of this section and sections 605 and 606 of this title shall not extend to railroad corporations. (June 3, 1878, ch. 150, § 1, 20 Stat. 88; Jan. 11, 1921, ch. 22, 41 Stat. 1088.)

§ 605. Same; notice to Commissioner of General Land Office of unlawful cutting.-It shall be the duty of the register and the receiver of any local land office in whose district any mineral land may be situated to ascertain from time to time whether any timber is being cut or used upon any such lands, except for the purposes authorized by section 604 of this title, within their respective land districts; and, if so, they shall immediately notify the Commissioner of the General Land Office of that fact; and all

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