An Act making appropriations for the Tennessee Valley Authority, certain; agencies of the Department of the Interior, and civil functions administered by the Department of the Army, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1957, and for other purposes.
PL 84-641 (H.R.11319), enacted 07/02/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 641-.JULY 2, 1956 
[70 ST A T . 
Public Law 641 
CHAPTER 490 
July 2, 1956 
[H. R. 11319] 
AN ACT 
Public Works Ap-
p r o p r i ation Act, 
1957. 
Making appropriations for the Tennessee Valley Authority, certain agencies of 
the Department of the Interior, and civil functions administered by the 
Department of the Army, for the fiscal year ending June 30,1957, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following 
sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30,1957, for the Tennes-
see Valley Authority, certain agencies of the Department of the In-
terior, and civil functions administered by the Department of the 
Army, and for other purposes, namely: 
TITLE I—TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY 
For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Tennessee 
Valley Authority Act of 1933, as amended (16 U. S. C , ch. 12A), 
including hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft, and purchase 
(not to exceed two hundred and eleven, for replacement only) and 
>mtn°"'*'* '^*'"^' ^i^® of passenger motor vehicles, $5,357,000: Provided, 
That there 
shall be available for resource development activities pursuant to the 
Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933, as amended, not to exceed 
$1,150,000: Provided further, That none of the funds provided herein 
may be used to acquire a building for use as an Administrative office 
of the Tennessee Valley Authority. 
REDUCTION IN APPROPRIATIONS 
48 Stat. 58. 
16 u s e 831. 
opment 
69 Stat. 355. 
The sum of $6,500,000 appropriated under this head in the Public 
Works Appropriation Act, 1956, for transmission connections with 
the Mississippi Valley Generating Company is rescinded as of July 1, 
1956, and shall be covered into the Treasury as of that date. 
TITLE 
II—DEPARTMENT 
OF 
THE 
INTERIOR 
OFFICE OF T H E SECRETARY 
58 Stat. B90. 
58 Stat. 890. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, SOUTHEASTERN POWER ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses of operation and maintenance of power 
transmission facilities and of marketing electric power and energy 
pursuant to the provisions of section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 
1944 (16 U. S. C. 825s), as applied to the southeastern power area, 
$1,378,000. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, SOUTHWESTERN POWER ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses of operation and maintenance of power 
transmission facilities and of marketing electric power and energy 
pursuant to the provisions of section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 
1944 (16 U. S. C. 825s), as applied to the southwestern power area, in-
cluding purchase of not to exceed four passenger motor vehicles for 
replacement only, $1,000,000. 
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475 
CONTINUING FUND, SOUTHWESTERN POWER ADMINISTRATION 
Not to exceed $6,400,000 shall be available during the current fiscal 
j'ear from the continuing fund for all costs in connection with the 
purchase of electric power and energy, and rentals for the use of trans-
mission facilities. 
BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction and acquisition of transmission lines, substations, 
and appurtenant facilities, as authorized by law, to remain available 
until expended, $18,700,000. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE 
For necessary expenses of operation and maintenance of the Bonne-
ville transmission system and of marketing electric power and energy, 
$7,400,000. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Appropriations of the Bonneville Power Administration shall be 
available to carry out all the duties imposed upon the Administrator 
pursuant to law, including purchase of not to exceed thirty-two pas-
senger motor vehicles for replacement only. 
Appropriations made 
herein to the Bonneville Power Administration shall be available in 
one fund, except that the appropriation herein made for operation and 
maintenance shall be available only for the service of the current fiscal 
year. 
Other than as may be necessary to meet local emergencies, not to 
exceed 12 per centum of the appropriation for construction herein made 
for the Bonneville Power Administration shall be available for con-
struction work by force account or on a hired-labor basis. 
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION 
For carrying out the functions of the Bureau of Reclamation as 
provided in the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 
Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto) 
^^ use 485a. 
and other Acts applicable to that Bureau, as follows: 
GENERAL INVESTIGATIONS 
For engineering and economic investigations of proposed Federal 
reclamation projects and studies of water conservation and develop-
ment plans; formulating plans and preparing designs and specifica-
tions for authorized Federal reclamation projects or parts thereof 
prior to initial allocation of appropriations for construction of such 
{)rojects or parts; and activities preliminary to the reconstruction, re-
labilitation and betterment, financial adjustment, or extension of exist-
ing projects; to remain available until expended, $5,680,000 of which 
$4,970,000 shall be derived from the reclamation fund and $500,000 
shall be derived from the Colorado River development fund: Provided, 
That none of this appropriation shall be used for more than one-half 
of the cost of an investigation requested by a State, municipality, or 
other interest. 
CONSTRUCTION AND REHABILITATION 
For construction and rehabilitation of authorized reclamation proj-
ects or parts thereof (including power transmission facilities) and for 
Restrictions. 
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[70 STAT. 
other related activities, as authorized by law, to remain available until 
expended, $131,225,500, of which $63,083,000 shall be derived from 
the reclamation fund: Provided^ That no part of this appropriation 
shall be available for other than the completion of field engineering, 
survey work, and preliminary designs of the Southwest Contra Costa 
County Water District System and no repayment contract shall be 
executed or construction begun until plans have been submitted to and 
approved by the Congress through its legislative and appropriation 
procedures, after submission of a report to the Congress by the Secre-
tary of the Interior (1) on the cost and feasibility of said project, 
including the necessary distribution system and (2) on the rates re-
quired to be charged to the ultimate consumers: Provided 
further^ 
That not to exceed $208,000 of this appropriation shall be available 
for the construction of fish protective facilities at Savage Rapids Dam, 
Oregon, to be nonreimbursable and nonreturnable: Provided 
further^ 
That not to exceed $200,000 of this appropriation shall be available 
for lighting the spillway of Grand Coulee Dam and shall be non-
reimbursable and nonreturnable: Provided further^ That not to ex-
ceed $233,800 shall be available for the emergency protection of medic-
inal waters of Soap Lake, Washington, from irrigation operations 
of the Columbia Basin project, which amount beyond the ability of 
the water users to repay shall be repayable from surplus power reve-
nues of Grand Coulee Dam: Provided 
further^ That not to exceed 
$520,000 shall be available toward emergency rehabilitation of the 
works of the Hayden Lake unit, Rathdrum Prairie project, Idaho, to 
be repaid in full under conditions satisfactory to the Secretary of the 
Interior: Provided further^ That no part of this appropriation shall 
be used to initiate the construction of transmission facilities within 
those areas covered by power wheeling service contracts which include 
provision for service to Federal establishments and preferred cus-
tomers, except those transmission facilities for which construction 
funds have been heretofore appropriated, those facilities which are 
necessary to carry out the terms of such contracts or those facilities 
for which the Secretary of the Interior finds the wheeling agency is 
unable or unwilling to provide for the integration of Federal projects 
or for service to a Federal establishment or preferred customer: Pro-
vided further^ That no part of this or prior appropriations shall be 
used for construction, nor for further commitments to construction 
of Moorhead Dam and Reservoir, Montana, or any feature thereof 
until a definite plan report thereon has been completed, reviewed, by 
the States of ^Vyoming and Montana, and approved by the Congress. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE 
For operation and maintenance of reclamation projects or parts 
thereof and of other facilities, as authorized by law; and for a soil 
and moisture conservation program on lands under the jurisdiction 
of the Bureau of Reclamation, pursuant to law, $27,267,000, of which 
$22,055,700 shall be derived from the reclamation fund and $2,115,000 
shall be derived from the Colorado River dam fund, including (not-
withstanding the provisions of the First Deficiency Appropriation 
58 Stat. 157. 
Act, 1944, relating thereto) operation and maintenance of Palo Verde 
weir: Provided^ That funds advanced for operation and maintenance 
of reclamation projects or parts thereof shall be deposited to the credit 
of this appropriation and may be expended for the same objects and 
in the same manner as sums appropriated herein may be expended, 
and the unexpended balances of such advances shall be credited to the 
appropriation for the next succeeding fiscal year. 
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477 
GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of general administration and related func-
tions in the offices of the Commissioner of Reclamation and in the 
regional offices of the Bureau of Reclamation, $3,942,000 to be derived 
from the reclamation fund and to be nonreimbursable pursuant to the 
Act of April 19, 1945 (43 U. S. C. 377) : Provided, That no part of 
S9 stat. S4. 
any other appropriation in this Act shall be available for activities or 
functions budgeted for the current fiscal year as general administra-
tive expenses. 
UPPER COLORADO RIVER BASIN FUND 
For payment to the "Upper Colorado River Basin fund", authorized 
by section 5 of the Act of April 11,1956 (Public Law 485), $13,000,000, 
to remain available until expended. 
SPECIAL FUNDS 
Ante, p. 107. 
32 Stat. 388. 
Sums herein referred to as being derived from the reclamation fund, 
the Colorado River dam fund, or the Colorado River development 
fund, are appropriated from the special funds in the Treasury created 
by the Act of June 17, 1902 (43 U. S. C. 391), the Act of December 
21,1928 (43 U. S. C. 6l7a), and the Act of Julv 19, 1940 (43 U. S. C. 
« stat. 1057. 
H18a), respectively. 
Such sums shall be transferred, upon request of 
S4 stat. 774. 
the Secretary, to be merged with and expended under the heads herein 
specified; and the unexpended balances of sums transferred for ex-
penditure under the heads "Operation and Maintenance" and "General 
Administrative Expenses" shall revert and be credited to the special 
fund from which derived. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Appropriations to the Bureau of Reclamation shall be available for 
purchase of not to exceed seventy-five passenger motor vehicles for 
replacement only; purchase of two aircraft for replacement only, pay-
ment of claims for damage to or loss of property, personal injury, or 
death arising out of activities of the Bureau of Reclamation; payment, 
except as otherwise provided for, of compensation and expense of 
persons on the rolls of the Bureau of Reclamation appointed as author-
ized by law to represent the United States in the negotiation and 
administration of interstate compacts without reimbursement or return 
under the reclamation laws; rewards for information or evidence con-
cerning violations of law involving property under the jurisdiction 
of the Bureau of Reclamation; performance of the functions specified 
under the head "Operation and Maintenance Administration", Bureau 
of Reclamation, in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1945; 
ss stat. 487. 
preparation and dissemination of useful information including record-
ings, photographs, and photographic prints; and studies of recrea-
tional uses of reservoir areas, and investigation and recovery of 
archeological and paleontological remains in such areas in the same 
manner as provided for in the Act of August 21, 1935 (16 U. S. C. 
461-467) : Provided, That no part of any appropriation made herein 
^9 stat. 666. 
shall be available pursuant to the Act of April 19, 1945 (43 U. S. C. 
377), for expenses other than those incurred on behalf of specific 
59 stat. 54. 
reclamation projects except "General Administrative Expenses" 
and amounts provided for reconnaissance, basin surveys, and general 
engineering and research under the head "General Investigations". 
Allotments to the Missouri River Basin project from the appropria-
tion under the head "Construction and Rehabilitation" shall be avail-
able additionally for said project for those functions of the Bureau 
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[70 STAT. 
of Reclamation provided for under the head "General Investigations" 
(but this authorization shall not preclude use of the appropriation 
under said head within that area), and for the continuation of inves-
tigations by agencies of the Department on a general plan for the 
development of the Missouri River Basin. 
Such allotments may be 
expended through or in cooperation with State and other Federal 
agencies, and advances to such agencies are hereby authorized. 
Sums appropriated herein Avhich are expended in the performance 
of reimbursable functions of the Bureau of Reclamation shall be re-
turnable to the extent and in the manner provided by law. 
No part of any appropriation for the Bureau of Reclamation, con-
tained in this Act or in any prior Act, which represents amounts 
earned under the terms of a contract but remaining unpaid, shall be 
obligated for any other purpose, regardless of when such amounts 
are to be paid: Provided, That the incurring of any obligation pro-
hibited by this paragraph shall be deemed a violation of section 3679 
64 Stat. 765. 
^f ^^iQ Reviscd Statutes, as amended (31 U. S. C. 665). 
No funds appropriated to the Bureau of Reclamation for operation 
and maintenance, except those derived from advances by water users, 
shall be used for the particular benefit of lands (a) within the bound-
aries of an irrigation district, (b) of any member of a water users' 
organization, or (c) of any individual, when such district, organiza-
tion, or individual is in arrears for more than twelve months in the 
payment of charges due under a contract entered into with the United 
States pursuant to laws administered by the Bureau of Reclamation. 
Not to exceed $225,000 may be expended from the appropriation 
"Construction and Rehabilitation" for work by force account on any 
one project or Missouri Basin unit and then only when such work is 
unsuitable for contract or no acceptable bid has been received and, 
other than otherwise provided in this paragraph or as may be neces-
sary to meet local emergencies, not to exceed 12 per centum of the con-
struction allotment for any project from the appropriation "Construc-
tion and Rehabilitation" contained in this Act shall be available for 
construction work by force account, 
ojecu*' ^^"^"^ 
Sums which have heretofore been expended for construction pur-
poses on the Boulder Canyon project from operation and maintenance 
appropriations and revenue receipts shall be considered as having been 
advanced to the Colorado River dam fund and repaid to the Secretary 
of the Treasury as of May 31 of the same operatmg year. 
Funds made available herein and hereafter to the Trinity division. 
Central Valley project, shall be available for the design and construc-
tion of power and hydraulic facilities totaling not to exceed approxi-
mately four hundred thousand kilowatts. 
All funds expended for construction, operation, and maintenance 
of the two thousand-second-foot Wahluke siphon, Columbia Basin 
project, shall be reimbursable, but repayment of those parts thereof 
and of other expenditures for said project which the Secretary finds 
properly allocable to irrigable lands located on the Wahluke slope shall 
be deferred until they are no longer needed in connection with oper-
ations of the Atomic Energy Commission and have been irrigated. 
project. 
Att endance at 
meetings. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 201. Appropriations in this title available for travel expenses 
shall be available for expenses of attendance of officers and employees 
at meetings or conventions of members of societies or associations con-
cerned with the work of the bureau or office for which the appropria-
tion concerned is made. 
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SEC. 202. Appropriations in this title shall be available for expendi-
ture or transfer (within each bureau or oflSce), with the approval of 
the Secretary, for the emergency reconstruction, replacement or repair 
of buildings, utilities, or other facilities or equipment damaged or 
destroyed by fire, flood, storm, or other unavoidable causes: Provided^ 
That no funds shall be made available under this authority until funds 
specifically made available to the Department of the Interior for 
emergencies shall have been exhausted. 
SEC. 203. The Secretary may authorize the expenditure or transfer 
(within each bureau or office) of any appropriation in this title, in 
addition to the amounts included in the budget programs of the sev-
eral agencies, for the suppression or emergency prevention of forest 
or range fires on or threatening lands under jurisdiction of the Depart-
ment of the Interior. 
SEC. 204. Appropriations in this title shall be available for opera-
tion of warehouses, garages, shops, and similar facilities, wherever 
consolidation of activities will contribute to efficiency or economy, and 
said appropriations shall be reimbursed for services rendered to any 
other activity in the same manner as authorized by the Act of June 30, 
1932 (31 U. S. C. 686) : Provided, That reimbursements for cost of 
supplies, materials and equipment, and for services rendered may 
be credited to the appropriation current at the time such reimburse-
ments are received. 
E m e r g e ncy re-
constructiotw 
Fire preventioiia 
O p e r a t i o n 
of 
warehouses, etc. 
47 Stat. 417. 
TITLE III—CIVIL FUNCTIONS, DEPARTMENT OF THE 
ARMY 
CEMETERTAL EXPENSES 
For necessary cemeterial expenses as authorized by law, including 
maintenance, operation, and improvement of national cemeteries, and 
purchase of headstones and markers for unmarked graves; purchase 
of two passenger motor vehicles; maintenance of that portion of Con-
gressional Cemetery to which the United States has title, Confederate 
burial places under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Army, 
The Surrender Tree site in Cuba, and graves used by the Army in com-
mercial cemeteries; $6,765,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall 
not be used to repair more than a single approach road to any national 
cemetery: Provided further, That this appropriation shall not be obli-
gated for construction of a superintendent's lodge or family quarters 
at a cost per unit in excess of $14,000, but such limitation may be in-
creased by such additional amounts as may be required to provide 
office space, public comfort rooms, or space for the storage of Govern-
ment property within the same structure. 
RIVERS AND HARBORS AND FLOOD CONTROL 
The following appropriations shall be expended under the direction 
of the Secretary of the Army and the supervision of the Chief of En-
gineers for authorized civil functions of the Department of the Army 
pertaining to rivers and harbors, flood control, beach erosion, and 
related purposes: 
GENERAL INVESTIGATIONS 
For expenses necessary for the collection and study of basic informa-
tion pertaining to river and harbor, flood control, shore protection, 
and related projects, and when authorized by law, preliminary exam-
inations, surveys and studies (including cooperative beach erosion 
studies as authorized in Public Law Numbered 520, Seventy-first Con-
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[TO S T A T , 
33use426 465 g^^^s, approvcd July 3,1930, as amended and supplemented), of proj-
46 Stat. 918. 
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S69a,607a; 48USC ects prioF to authorization for construction, to remain available until 
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expended, $9,322,000. 
Payment to Indi-
ans. 
Qrand Forks. 
CONSTRUCTION, GENERAL 
For the prosecution of river and harbor, flood control, shore pro-
tection, and related projects authorized by law; detailed studies, and 
plans and specifications, of projects (including those for development 
with participation or under consideration for participation by States, 
local governments, or private groups) authorized or made eligible for 
selection by law (but such studies shall not constitute a commitment of 
the Government to construction); and not to exceed $1,400,000 for 
transfer to the Secretary of the Interior for conservation of fish and 
wildlife as authorized by law; to remain available until expended, 
$455,949,500, of which $300,000 shall be for the project "Mississippi 
River-Gulf Outlet, Louisiana": Provided, 
That funds appropriated 
herein may at the discretion and under the direction of the Chief of 
Engineers be used in payment to the accounts of the Confederated 
Tribes of the Yakima Reservation; the Confederated Tribes of the 
Warm Springs Reservation; the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla 
Reservation; or other recognized Indian tribes, and those individual 
Indians not enrolled in any recognized tribe, but who through domicile 
at or in the immediate vicinity of the reservoir and through custom and 
usage are found to have an equitable interest in the fishery, all of 
whose fishing rights and interests will be impaired by the Govern-
ment incident to the construction, operation, or maintenance of The 
Dalles Dam, Columbia River, Washington and Oregon, and must be 
subordinated thereto by agreement or litigation: Provided 
further, 
That in view of the physical conditions that developed during con-
struction which increased the cost of land acquisition beyond the legal 
authority of the city of Grand Forks to provide, the Chief of Engineers 
is authorized to expend, for land acquisition, not to exceed the sum of 
$100,000 of the amount herein appropriated for the Grand Forks unit 
of the Red River of the North project: Provided further, That in lieu 
of protecting the Lewis and Clark Irrigation District, the sum of 
$1,935,000 of the funds herein or hereafter appropriated for the Garri-
son Dam and Reservoir project on the Missouri River shall be available 
for the purchase of lands and improvements in the Lewis and Clark 
Irrigation District, and the sum of $1,196,000 shall be available for the 
relocation of highways and utilities therein. The substitution of land 
acquisition for the protection shall be made and the Secretary of the 
Army shall acquire such land and improvements if all of the land-
owners, on or before June 30, 1957, have offered to sell their property 
on terms agreeable to said landpwners, and within the amount provided 
Buforjd-Trantwj herein for such land acquisition: Provided further, 
That in lieu of 
^»o»j«., ni=-4^. pj.^^gg^^j^g ^j^g -gj^g^ Bottom of the Buford-Trenton Irrigation District, 
the sum of $1,341,891 of the funds herein or hereafter appropriated for 
the Garrison Dam and Reservoir project on the Missouri River shall 
be available for the purchase of lands and improvements in and con-
tiguous to the Buford-Trenton Irrigation District, and not to exceed 
$2,000,000 shall be available to the Corps of Engineers for protection 
of the intake structure of the pumping plant in Zero Bottom and for 
the construction of bank protection to prevent erosion in the Missouri 
River adjacent to the Buford-Trenton irrigation project. The substi-
tution of land acquisition for protection shall be made and the Secre-
tary of the Army shall acquire such land and improvements if all of 
the landowners, except the heirs of Louis Morin, Junior, on or before 
June 30,1957, have offered to sell their property on the terms agreeable 
Lewis and Clark 
Irrigation District. 
Irrigation District. 
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to said landowners, and within the amount provided for such land 
acquisition: Provided^ That the Chief of Engineers, United States 
Army, is authorized to acquire by condemnation proceedings, in the 
appropriate United States district court, the public domain allotment 
of Louis Morin, Junior, now deceased, described as the west half south-
west quarter, section 16, and the north half southeast quarter, section 
17, township 153 north, range 102 west, fifth principal meridian, North 
Dakota, in connection with the construction and operation of the Garri-
son Dam and Reservoir: Provided further^ That in the event land 
acquisition is undertaken in lieu of protection of the East Bottom, 
that in recognition of the increased per acre annual operation and 
maintenance cost of the remaining lands in the Buford-Trenton Irri-
gation District, the construction charge obligation assignable to the 
remaining lands of said district pursuant to the Act of October 14, 
1940 (54 Stat. 1119), as amended, and the proposed contract between 
i^ use 590y. 
the United States and Buford-Trenton Irrigation District, approved 
as to form February 23,1955, shall be nonreimbursable, and the Secre-
tary of the Interior is authorized and directed to enter into a contract 
with the Buford-Trenton Irrigation District to transfer operation and 
maintenance responsibility for project works constructed by the Bureau 
of Reclamation for the benefit of the Buford-Trenton Irrigation 
District to such district: Provided 
further^ 
That not to exceed 
smaii projects. 
$2,500,000 of the funds provided herein shall be available for the 
construction of small authorized projects selected by the Secretary of 
the Army the cost of which is not in excess of $150,000 and any such 
project shall be completed within the funds herein appropriated. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, GENERAL 
For expenses necessary for the preservation, operation, maintenance, 
and care of existing river and harbor, flood control, and related works, 
including such sums as may be necessary for the maintenance of harbor 
channels provided by a State, municipality, or other public agency, 
outside of harbor lines, and serving essential needs of general com-
merce and navigation; surveys and charting of northern and north-
western lakes and connecting waters; clearing and straightening 
channels; removal of obstructions to navigation; rescue work, and 
repair, restoration, or maintenance of flood control projects threatened 
or destroyed by flood; and not to exceed $1,250,000 for transfer to the 
Secretary of the Interior for conservation of fish and wildlife as 
authorized by law; to remain available until expended, $95,900,000. 
GENERAL EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for general administration and related func-
tions in the Office of the Chief of Engineers and offices of the Division 
Engineers; activities of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Har-
bors, the Beach Erosion Board, and the California Debris Commission; 
administration of laws pertaining to preservation of navigable waters; 
commercial statistics; and miscellaneous investigations; $10,400,000. 
FLOOD CONTROL, MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES 
For expenses necessary for prosecuting work of flood control, and 
rescue work, repair, restoration or maintenance of flood control proj-
ects threatened or destroyed by flood, as authorized by law (33 U. S. C. 
^s stat. 534. 
702a, 702g-l), to remain available until expended, $62,791,000. 
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NIAGARA REMEDIAL WORKS 
For financing a part of the United States share of the cost of 
remedial works in the Niagara River, to be undertaken in accordance 
1 usT 696. 
with article I I of the treaty between the United States of America 
and Canada, ratified hj the United States Senate on August 9
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, 1950, 
to remain available until expended, $500,000. 
UNITED STATES SECTION, SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER J O I N T BOARD OF 
ENGINEERS 
For necessary expenses of the United States section of the Saint 
Lawrence River Joint Board of Engineers, established by Executive 
g j fp^ ^ H ! ^ ^ ^ Order 10500, dated November 4,1953, including services as authorized 
^e'stat. 81*0. 
by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), at rates 
not to exceed $100 per day for individuals; $150,000: Provided, That 
no part of these funds shall be obligated until agreement has been 
entered into, by the United States Government and the United States 
entity authorized to construct the power works in the International 
Rapids section of the Saint Lawrence River, providing for the reim-
bursement of the expenditures of the United States section of this 
Board by the construction entity. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Appropriations in this title shall be available for expenses of attend-
ance at meetings of organizations concerned with the work for which 
the appropriation is made, for uniforms, or allowances therefor, as 
5usc2i3inote. authorized by the Act of September 1, 1954 (68 Stat. 1114), as 
amended, and for printing, either during a recess or session of Con-
gress, of survey reports authorized by law, and such survey reports as 
may be printed during a recess of Congress shall be printed, with 
illustrations, as documents of the next succeeding session of Congress; 
and during the current fiscal year the revolving fund, Corps of Engi-
neers, shall be available for purchase (not to exceed two hundred and 
forty-seven for replacement only) and hire of passenger motor 
vehicles. 
Short title. 
'pjjjg j^ct may be cited as the "Public Works Appropriation Act, 
1957". 
Approved July 2, 1956. 
Public Law 642 
CHAPTER 491 
July 2, 1956 
AN ACT 
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To amend the Act of April 28, 1953, relating to daylight-saving time in the 
District of Columbia. 
Be It enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
time^^D.^^.' °*^^"^ United States of America m Congress assembled, That the Act entitled 
"An Act to permit the Board of (Commissioners of the District of 
Columbia to establish daylight-saving time in the District", approved 
67 Stat. 23. 
^p^.jj 28, 1953 (D. C. Code, sec. 28-2804), is hereby amended by strik-
ing out the words "last Sunday of September" and inserting in lieu 
tliereof the words "last Sunday of October". 
Approved July 2, 1956.