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Show 459 project were authorized under Reclamation Law.298 The entire project was reauthorized by Congress, for construction by the Secretary of the Interior as a multiple-purpose project, in 1937 and again in 1940.299 The latter reauthorization declares the project: to be for the purposes of improving navigation, regu- lating the flow of the San Joaquin River and the Sacra- mento River, controlling floods, providing for storage and for the delivery of the stored waters thereof, for construction under the provisions of the Federal recla- mation laws of such distribution systems as the Secre- tary of the Interior deems necessary in connection with lands for which said stored waters are to be delivered, for the reclamation of arid and semiarid lands and lands of Indian reservations, and other beneficial uses, and for the generation and sale of electric energy as a means of financially aiding and assisting such undertakings, and in order to permit the full utilization of the works constructed to accomplish the aforesaid purposes. In 1949, the Central Valley project was again reauthorized, this time to include the American River development.300 The Army Engineers are to construct the Folsom Dam and Reser- voir. Upon its completion to the extent where water from the reservoir is ready to be turned either into the power plant or the conduits, the project is to be turned over to the Bureau of Reclamation for "operation and maintenance under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior together with other features of the American River development herein authorized for construction by the Bureau of Reclamation, all in accord- ance with the Federal reclamation laws."301 298 See United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclama- tion Project Feasibilities and Authorizations, pp. 117-122 (1949). See also Act of June 22,1936, 49 Stat. 1597, 1622. ""Acfof August 26, 1937, § 2, 50 Stat. 844, 850; Act of October 17, 1940, 54 Stat. 1198,1199-1200. 800 Act of October 14,1949, § 1, 63 Stat. 852. For a further reauthorization see Act of September 26, 1950, 64 Stat. 1036. 801 § 2, 63 Stat. 852. The Army's flood-control jurisdiction is preserved in accordance with § 7 of the Act of December 22, 1944, 58 Stat. 887, 890. |