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Show 525 A second type of legislative control over project selection is that incident to the provision of funds. Here, agency activi- ties are reviewed by the appropriation committees of Congress. Generally, all water-resource agencies require annual appro- priations. Even where special funds are available for water- resource development, an affirmative appropriation act is usu- ally prerequisite to their use, as we shall later see.170 On the other hand, we shall also discuss a few instances where special funds are available without appropriation action, and other arrangements similarly permitting expenditures without spe- cific appropriation action.171 But even in these cases, detailed reports on proposed programs must be submitted to Congress.172 A like requirement exists in the case of government corpora- tions.178 Through these means, therefore, Congress is provided with information upon which it may pass legislation affirmatively preventing any project activity. Before turning to an examination of the statutes providing for varying legislative review of proposed water-resource proj- ects, we should first note certain limitations which Congress has imposed upon its own action. Limitations on Legislative Consideration.-Prescribing cer- tain restrictions for itself, Congress in 1922 prohibited commit- tee consideration of any navigation project with a view to its adoption, except with a view to a survey, if five years have and Indians go to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, formerly called Committee on Public Lands; matters relating to navigation and flood control, water power, and pollution of navigable waters go to the Committee on Public Works. The situation is substantially the same in the House. See Act of August 2,1946, §§ 102,121, 60 Stat. 812, 814, 822. See also Rule XI, Rotes op the House op Repbesbntattves, H. Doc. No. 766, 80th Cong., 2d sess., pp. 326-352 (1949); Rule XXV, Senate Manual, Sen. Doc. No. 11, 81st Cong., 1st sess., pp. 28-40 (1949). 170 See infra, p. 578. TO See infra, p. 574. in Act of June 10, 1921, 42 Stat. 20, as amended, 31 U. S. C. 1 et seq.; Ex. O. No. 9384, October 4,1943, 8 F. R. 13782, 31 U. S. C. 21 note following. See also Act of September 12, 1950, §§ 101,102, 64 Stat. 832, -. 174 Act of December 6,1945, § 102, 59 Stat. 597, 598, as amended, 31 U. S. C. 847. |
