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Show 188 terment" costs, that is, maintenance costs which the water users cannot finance currently.227 The 1939 Reclamation Project Act broadened the scope of examinations and surveys undertaken in connection with irri- gation projects. It prohibits expenditures or submission of estimates for construction of any new project, new division of a project, or new supplemental works on a project, until the Secretary has submitted to the President and to Congress his report and findings on:228 (1) the engineering feasibility of the proposed con- struction ; (2) the estimated cost of the proposed construction; (3) the part of the estimated cost which can properly be allocated to irrigation and probably be repaid by the water users; (4) the part of the estimated cost which can properly be allocated to power and probably be returned to the United States in net power revenues; (5) the part of the estimated cost which can properly be allocated to municipal water supply or other mis- cellaneous purposes and probably be returned to the United States. Findings are also required as to any "allocation to flood control or navigation," as provided for by the statute.229 Recent appropriation legislation contains indications of the scope of examinations and surveys expected. For example, the 1950 Interior Department Appropriation Act provided funds for:230 engineering and economic investigations of proposed Federal reclamation projects and surveys, investigations, and other activities relating to reconstruction, rehabili- tation, extensions, or financial adjustments of existing projects, and studies of water conservation and develop- m Act of October 7,1949, 63 Stat. 724. 428 Act of August 4, 1939, § 9(a), 53 Stat. 1187,1193, 43 U. S. 0. 485b. (a). "• Id.; § 9 (b), 53 Stat. 1187,1194,43 U. S. 0. 485h(b). 280 Act of October 12,1949, 63 Stat. 765, -. |