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Show 593 users' repayment ability are in practice assigned for return by revenues from other reimbursable purposes.532 Somewhat different is the situation with respect to irrigation works at Army dam and reservoir projects, authorized pursuant to Section 8 of the Flood Control Act of 1944.533 While this Section provides for the construction, operation, and mainte- nance of such works under Reclamation Law, it adds a provision affecting return of project costs. Here, the project feasibility report of the Secretary of the Interior may, "within the limits of the water users' repayment ability," be predicated on the allocation to irrigation of an appropriate portion of the cost of structures and facilities used for irrigation and other pur- poses. The feasibility report may therefore not be predicated upon an allocation to irrigation beyond the "limits of the water users' repayment ability."534 No corresponding limi- tation exists with respect to projects authorized under Reclama- tion Law; rather costs beyond the water-users' repayment BM See supra, n. 307, p. 204. A more flexible situation exists with respect to those reclamation projects under the Water Conservation and Utilization Act. It includes a provision for cost allocations patterned after section 9(a) of the 1939 Reclamation Project Act. Act of October 14,1940, § 3, 54 Stat. 1119,1120, as amended, 16 U. S. 0. 590z-l. In addition, it authorizes use of relief funds and contribu- tions from federal and nonfederal agencies, reducing the need for direct appropriations. § 2, 54 Stat. 1120,16 TJ. S. C. 590z. Cost allocations to irri- gation are made reimbursable so far as met by expenditures from appropri- ated funds plus such amounts of other funds as the President may determine to be reimbursable. § 4(b), 54 Stat 1121, as amended, 16 U. S. O. 590z-2(b). The contributions by federal agencies are to be reimbursed in such amounts as the President may fix "within the limits of the water users' ability to repay." § 2,54 Stat. 1120,16 U. S. 0.590z. Furthermore, a 1943 amendment permitted use of direct appropriations in lieu of relief labor and contributions from federal agencies and provided that expenditures may be excluded from returnable project costs to the extent necessary "for the successful prose- cution of the project." Act of July 16,1943, § 5, 57 Stat. 566, 567,16 U. S. O. 590z-2(d). m Act of December 22,1944, § 8, 58 Stat. 887, 891, 43 U. S. C. 390. 834 In connection with the authorization for the Secretary of the Interior to construct additional irrigation works at the Hungry Horse Dam, the same limitation, "within the limits of the water users' repayment ability," is included in substantially the same manner as in the 1944 Flood Control Act. Act of June 5,1944, § 3, 58 Stat. 270, 43 U. S. C. 593b. |