delivery or performance offered, and whether the bidder has complied with the specifications. SEC. 9. (a) The administrator, subject to the requirements of the Federal Water Power Act, shall keep complete and accurate accounts. of operations, including all funds expended and received in connection with transmission and sale of electric energy generated at the Bonneville project. (b) The administrator may make such expenditures for offices, vehicles, furnishings, equipment, supplies, and books; for attendance at meetings; and for such other facilities and services as he may find necessary for the proper administration of this Act. (c) In December of each year, the administrator shall file with the Congress, through the Secretary of the Interior, a financial statement and a complete report as to the transmission and sale of electric energy generated at the Bonneville project during the preceding governmental fiscal year. SEC. 10. The administrator, the Secretary of War, and the Federal Power Commission, respectively, shall appoint such attorneys, engineers, and other experts as may be necessary for carrying out the functions entrusted to them under this Act, without regard to the provisions of the civil-service laws and shall fix the compensation of each of such attorneys, engineers, and other experts at not to exceed $7,500 per annum; and they may, subject to the civil-service laws, appoint such other officers and employees as may be necessary to carry out such functions and fix their salaries in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923 as amended. SEC. 11. All receipts from transmission and sale of electric energy generated at the Bonneville project shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of miscellaneous receipts, save and except that the Treasury shall set up and maintain from such receipts a continuing fund of $500,000, to the credit of the administrator and subject to check by him, to defray emergency expenses and to insure continuous operation. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated from time to time, out of moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act, including installation of equipment and machinery for the generation of electric energy and facilities for its transmission and sale. SEC. 12. The administrator may, in the name of the United States, under the supervision of the Attorney General, bring such suits at law or in equity as in his judgment may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act; and he shall be represented in the prosecution and defense of all litigation affecting the status or operation of Bonneville project by the United States Attorneys for the districts, respectively, in which such litigation may arise, or by such attorney or attorneys as the Attorney General may designate as authorized by law, in conjunction with the regularly employed attorneys of the administrator. SEC. 13. If any provision of this Act or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid shall not be affected thereby. [CHAPTER 47-3D SESSION] AN ACT To amend the Bonneville Project Act. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 2 (a) of chapter 720 of the Acts of the Seventy-fifth Congress, first session (50 Stat. 731, 732), is hereby amended by inserting after the second sentence ending "in the vicinity of the Bonneville project.", the following sentence: "The Secretary of the Interior shall also appoint, without regard to the civil-service laws, an Assistant Administrator, chief engineer, and general counsel and shall fix the compensation of each at not exceeding $7,500 per annum. The Assistant Administrator shall perform the duties and exercise the powers of the Administrator, in the event of the absence or sickness of the Administrator until such absence or sickness shall cease, and, in the event of a vacancy in the office of Administrator until a successor is appointed." SEC. 2. Section 2. (a) of said Act is hereby further amended by adding at the end of said section the following: "The office of the Administrator of the Bonneville project is hereby constituted an office in the Department of the Interior and shall be under the jurisdiction and control of the Secretary of the Interior. All functions vested in the Administrator of the Bonneville project under this Act may be exercised by the Secretary of the Interior and, subject to his supervision and direction, by the Administrator and other personnel of the project." SEC. 3. Section 4 (b) of the said chapter is hereby amended by striking out the words and figures "January 1, 1941" wherever they occur therein and by substituting in lieu thereof the words and figures "January 1, 1942”. Approved, March 6, 1940. [CHAPTER 827-1ST SESSION] AN ACT To authorize an appropriation for the construction of small reservoirs under the Federal reclamation laws. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from the special fund in the Treasury of the United States created by the Act of June 17, 1902, and therein designated "The Reclamation Fund", there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $500,000 for expenditure by the Secretary of the Interior, under the Federal reclamation laws, in the construction of small storage reservoirs at such locations within the States subject to the Federal reclamations laws, as the said Secretary may select, no reservoir to be constructed hereunder the estimated cost of which exceeds $50,000. Approved, August 26, 1937. [PUBLIC NO. 475-75TH CONGRESS] (H. R. 3786] AN ACT Providing for the allocation of net revenues of the Shoshone power plant of the Shoshone reclamation project in Wyoming. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the net revenues from the Shoshone power plant of the Shoshone irrigation project, properly and equitably allocable to the unconstructed portions of the Shoshone project from the operation of the Shoshone power plant, shall be applied, first, to the repayment of the proportionate construction cost of the power system; second, to the repayment of the proportionate construction cost of the Shoshone Dam; and, third, thereafter such net revenues shall be paid into the reclama tion fund, and that the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to apply the net revenues properly and equitably apportioned or to be apportioned to the Garland and Frannie Divisions of said project, in accord with the terms and provisions of existing contracts with the water users on said project. SEC. 2. That all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Approved, April 9, 1938. [CHAPTER 250-3D SESSION] [8. 2650] AN ACT To authorize the completion, maintenance, and operation of the Fort Peck project for navigation, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the pur pose of improving navigation on the Missouri River, and for other purposes incidental thereto, the dam and appurtenant works now under construction at Fort Peck, Montana, and a suitable power plant for the production of hydroelectric power (which dam, power plant, and appurtenant works are hereinafter called Fort Peck project), shall be completed, maintained, and operated under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, subject to the provisions of this Act relating to the powers and duties of the Bureau of Reclamation (hereinafter called the Bureau), as provided for in section 2 (a), respecting the transmission and sale of electric energy generated at said project. The Secretary of War shall provide, construct, operate, maintain, and improve at Fort Peck project such machinery, equipment, and facilities for the generation of electric energy as the Bureau may deem necessary to develop such electric energy as rapidly as markets may be found therefor. The electric energy thus generated and not required for the operation of the dam at such project and the navigation facilities employed in connection therewith shall be delivered to the Bureau for disposition as provided in this Act. SEC. 2. (a) The electric energy generated in the operation of the said Fort Peck project shall be disposed of by the Bureau as hereinafter provided. The Bureau shall exercise the powers and perform the duties provided for in this Act under the supervision and direction of the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with the Act of May 26, 1926 (44 Stat. 657). The Bureau shall, as hereinafter provided, make all arrangements for the sale and disposition of electric energy generated at the Fort Peck project not required for the operation of the dam at such project and the navigation facilities employed in connection therewith. The form of administration herein established for the Fort Peck project is intended to be provisional pending the establishment of a permanent adminis tration for Fort Peck and other projects in the Missouri River Basin. The Secretary of War shall install and maintain additional machinery, equipment, and facilities for the generation of electric energy at the Fort Peck project when in the judgment of the Bureau such additional generating facilities are desirable to meet actual or potential market requirements for such electric energy. The Secretary of War shall schedule the operations of the several electrical generating units and appurtenant equipment of the Fort Peck project in accordance with the requirements of the Bureau. The Secretary of War shall provide and maintain for the use of the Bureau at said Fort Peck project adequate station space and equipment, including such switches, switchboards, instruments, and dispatching facilities as may be required by the Bureau for proper reception, handling, and dispatching of the electric energy produced at the said project, together with transformers and other equipment required by the Bureau for the transmission of such energy from that place at suitable voltage to the markets which the Bureau desires to serve. (b) In order to encourage the widest possible use of all electric energy that can be generated and marketed and to provide reasonable outlets therefor, and to prevent the monopolization thereof by limited groups, the Bureau is authorized and directed to provide, construct, operate, maintain, and improve such electric transmission lines and substations, and facilities and structures appurtenant thereto, as it finds necessary, desirable, or appropriate for the purpose of transmitting electric energy, available for sale, from the Fort Peck project to existing and potential markets, and, for the purpose of interchange of electric energy, to interconnect the Fort Peck project with either private or with other Federal projects and publicly owned power systems now or hereafter constructed. (c) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in the name of the United States, to acquire, by purchase, lease, condemnation, or donation, such real and personal property, or any interest therein, including lands, easements, rights-of-way, franchises, electric transmission lines, substations, and facilities and structures appurtenant thereto, as he finds necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of this Act. Title to all property and property rights acquired by said Secretary shall be taken in the name of the United States. (d) The Secretary of the Interior shall have power to acquire any property or property rights, including patent rights, which in his opinion are necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act, by pur-. chase, lease, donation, or by the exercise of the right of eminent domain and to institute condemnation proceedings therefor in the same manner as is provided by law for the condemnation of real estate. (e) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in the name of the United States, to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of such personal property as in his judgment is not required for the purposes of this Act and such real property and interests in land acquired in connection with construction or operation of electric transmission lines or substations as in his judgment are not required for the purposes of this Act. (f) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Bureau is authorized, in the name of the United States, to negotiate and enter into such contracts, agreements, and arrangements as it shall find necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of this Act. SEC. 3. As employed in this Act, the term "public body," or "public bodies," means States, public power districts, counties, and municipalities, including agencies or subdivisions of any thereof. As employed in this Act, the term "cooperative," or "cooperatives," means any form of nonprofit-making organization or organizations of citizens supplying, or which may be created to supply, members |