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585 Reclamation Fund.491 Automatic replenishment from rev- enues is provided for in the case of the continuing emergency funds available under the Bonneville Project, Fort Peck Proj- ect, and Tennessee Valley Authority Acts.492 So also as to the Southwestern Power Administration fund.493 Contributions.-Local contributions constitute another possible source of funds or other aids to development of water-resource projects. Authorizing statutes vary as to what may be accepted, specification of the contributor, and the underlying purpose. In the case of navigation projects, we earlier noted that every report on an authorized survey must contain a statement of "special or local benefit," and recommendations as to what "local cooperation" should be required, if any.494 On the basis of such reports, Congress may then on a project-by-project basis require local contribution in authorizing individual proj- ects.495 The Secretary of the Army has discretion to receive from "private parties" contributed "funds" to be expended with appropriated funds for any authorized improvement whenever such work and expenditure may be considered by the Chief of Engineers as advantageous to the "interests of naviga- tion." 496 In aid of "immediate prosecution" of an authorized "work of river and harbor improvement," advance "funds" may 481 Act of June 26,1948, § 1, 62 Stat. 1052, 43 U. S. C. 502 (Supp. Ill). 492 Act of August 20, 1937, § 11, 50 Stat. 731, 736, 16 U. S. O. 832j; Act of May 18, 1938, § 10, 52 Stat. 403, 406, 16 U. S. C. 8331; Act of May 18, 1933, § 26, 48 Stat. 58, 71, as amended, 16 U. S. C. 831y. 498 Act of December 23, 1943, 57 Stat. 611, 621, as amended by Act of October 12,1949, 63 Stat. 765, -. 494 Act of June 5, 1920, § 2, 41 Stat. 1009, 1010, 33 TJ. S. O. 547. 488 See, e. g., Act of March 2,1945, § 2, 59 Stat. 10,13, where local interests were required to contribute 50% of the first cost of improvement of Jones Inlet, N. Y., and to furnish necessary lands, easements, and rights-of-way. See Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, U. S. Army, pp. 232-233 (1949). 488 Act of March 4,1915, § 4,38 Stat. 1049,1053, 33 U. S. O. 560. When such contributions are in excess of the actual cost of the work properly chargeable to such contributions, such excess may be returned unless its retention is required by law.

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