PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

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Congress must approve money each year for projects under the reclamation law, and spending for those projects can only come from those yearly approvals. Each year’s Budget must include and send to Congress an estimate of how much money is needed to do any or all work allowed by the reclamation law, including finishing or expanding current projects and building new ones. The funds Congress approves are paid from the reclamation fund.

Title 43, §414

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Expenditures shall not be made for carrying out the purposes of the reclamation law except out of appropriations made annually by Congress therefor, and there shall annually, in the Budget, be submitted to Congress estimates of the amount of money necessary to be expended for carrying out any or all of the purposes authorized by the reclamation law, including the extension and completion of existing projects and units thereof and the construction of new projects. The annual appropriations made hereunder by Congress for such purposes shall be paid out of the reclamation fund provided for by the reclamation law.

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The reclamation law, referred to in text, is defined in section 472 of this title. Codification Words “there shall annually, in the Budget, be submitted to Congress” substituted for “the Secretary of the Interior shall annually in the regular Book of Estimates, submit to Congress” in view of the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, act June 10, 1921, ch. 18, 42 Stat. 20. See section 1104 and 1105 of Title 31, Money and Finance.

§414 Appropriation for Projects Essential

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Title 43, §414

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