Third Supplemental Appropriation Bill for 1948: Additional Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, First Session. Bureau of Reclamation, Social Security AdministrationU.S. Government Printing Office, 1947 - 223 pages |
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additional amount asked available funds awarded balance BANKS BATSON bids Big Thompson Big Thompson River Budget allowed Bureau of Reclamation California canal and laterals carry-over Central Valley project Chairman Colorado Colorado-Big Thompson project Columbia Basin project committee Congress continue contractors cost Dam and Reservoir Davis Dam project Delta-Mendota canal Denver DOUGLASS earnings Electric engineering equipment Estes Park exhaustion of funds existing contracts Federal feeder canal FENTON fiscal year 1948 force account Friant Dam Friant-Kern canal funds available gentlemen going Government Grand Coulee Dam grouting Horsetooth Reservoir installation Irrigation facilities JENSEN Joint facilities June 30 KEEFE KIRWAN Lake MARKWELL materials necessary NORRELL operation Parker Power facilities progress payments pumping plant request River schedule SCHWABE Senate Shasta Dam specifications spillway STRAUS Subtotal supplemental appropriation supplemental estimate switchyard tion Total transmission line tunnel units WAGENET
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Page 127 - Government may require, to revise or amend the specifications or drawings or both, prior to the date set for opening bids. Such revisions and amendments, If any, will be announced by an amendment or amendments to this Invitation for Bids.
Page 147 - Where settlements had been effected in good faith prior to June 25, 1910, on lands embraced within second-form withdrawals, persons showing such settlement are entitled to complete entry in the manner and within the time provided by law. The Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902, and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto are hereinafter referred to generally as the reclamation law.
Page 90 - Where the operations of this contract extend beyond the current fiscal year, the contract is made contingent upon Congress making the necessary appropriation for expenditures hereunder after such current year shall have expired. In case such appropriation as may be necessary to carry out this contract is not made, the Contractor hereby releases the United States from all liability due to the failure of Congress to make such appropriation.
Page 126 - ... board, in a sum not less than one-half of the total amount payable by the terms of the contract; such bond shall be executed by the contractor, and at least two sureties.
Page 126 - Whenever the total amount payable by the terms of the contract shall be not more than $1,000,000 the said payment bond shall be in a sum of one-half the total amount payable by the terms of the contract. Whenever the total amount payable by the terms of the contract shall be more than $1,000,000 and not more than $5,000,000, the...
Page 126 - This invitation for bids does not cover the purchase of materials which are to be furnished by the Government. Materials to be furnished by the contractor and those furnished by the Government are described in the specifications which will be a part of the contract. The...
Page 106 - SEC. 4 (a) For the purposes of assisting in the permanent settlement of farm families, protecting project land...
Page 126 - Guarantee will be required with each bid In an amount not less than 10 percent of the amount of the bid. Performance bond will be required In an amount not less than 50 percent of the estimated aggregate payments to be made under the contract...
Page 126 - ... the contract. Whenever the total amount payable by the terms of the contract is not more than $1,000,000, the payment bond shall be one-half the total amount payable by the terms of the contract. Whenever the total amount payable by the terms of the contract is more than $1,000,000...
Page 106 - If the operations of this contract extend beyond the current fiscal year, it is understood that the contract is made contingent upon Congress making the necessary appropriation for expenditures thereunder after such current year has expired. In case such appropriation as may be necessary to carry out this contract is not made, the contractor hereby releases the Government from all liability due to the failure of Congress to make such appropriation.