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Show 203 Correspondingly, revenues derived from project operations were covered into the Reclamation Fund and credited to the project. For example, when Congress authorized the lease of surplus power or power privilege at reclamation projects, it required that the moneys derived be covered into the Reclama- tion Fund and placed to the credit of the project.298 A like re- quirement was specified in a statute authorizing contracts to supply water "for other purposes than irrigation."2" Similarly covered into the Reclamation Fund for the credit of the project are the proceeds from sales of lands acquired or withdrawn, but no longer needed for project purposes.800 In 1924, Congress directed that, whenever the water users take over project operation and maintenance, net profits from "operation of project power plants, leasing of project grazing and farm lands, and the sale or use of town sites" be credited to the project.301 Such profits may then be used by the water users to be credited annually, first to the construction charge, second to operation and maintenance charges, and third "as the water users may direct."302 By the 1938 Hayden-O'Mahoney amendment, as previously noted, Congress directed that all moneys received in connection with irrigation projects, "including the incidental power fea- tures thereof," be covered into the Reclamation Fund, except where provision had been made by law or contract for the use of such revenues for the benefit of the water users.303 It was 298 Act of April 16,1906, § 5, 34 Stat. 116, 117, as amended, 43 U. S. 0. 522. "• Act of February 25,1920, 41 Stat. 451, 43 U. S. G. 521. 800 Act of February 2, 1911, § 3, 36 Stat. 895, 43 U. S. C. 374; Act of May 20,1920, § 3, 41 Stat. 605, 606, 43 U. S. O. 375. 801 Act of December 5, 1924, § 4, subsection I, 43 Stat. 672, 703, 43 U. S. C. 501. 302 Id. See also Act of May 25,1926, § 45, 44 Stat. 636, 648. 303 Act of May 9, 1938, § 1, 52 Stat. 322, 43 U. S. C. 392a. In the case of the Boise and Shoshone Projects, Congress had in 1929 directed in effect that net power revenues be applied to repayment of costs of project power development, and thereafter covered into the Reclamation Fund. Act of March 4, 1929, 45 Stat. 1562, 1590, 1592. Similarly, Congress in 1937 made provision for relieving the water users of the obligation of making payment of the construction costs "chargeable to the development of power" of the Elephant Butte Dam in the amount determined as equitable by the Secre- tary. Act of August 9,1937, 50 Stat. 564, 593. |
