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Show 602 nized purpose of irrigation projects under the 1939 legislation, as we have seen, Reclamation Law includes none of the fore- going provisions for local contribution. Indeed, such is the framework of the 1939 Act that allocations to navigation are nonreimbursable.581 Flood Control.-The situation here is much the same as in the case of navigation. Except to the extent that the law makes provision for "local contribution," flood-control benefits are nonreimbursable. Express provision is made for local contribution in the case of Army Engineer flood-control projects other than dam and reservoir projects.582 Here, as a condition precedent to the use of federal funds, the law requires assurances from "States, political subdivisions thereof, or other responsible local agen- cies" that they will: (a) provide without cost to the United States all necessary lands, easements, and rights-of-way; (b) hold and save the United States free from damages due to the construction work; and (c) maintain and operate all the works after completion.583 To this extent, local contribution is thus required for such flood-control work as levees, channel improve- ments, and channel rectification. In the case of flood-control work performed by the Depart- ment of Agriculture, its Secretary has discretionary authority to require, as a condition of extending benefits in prosecuting au- thorized works, "contributions in money, services, materials, or otherwise."584 In the case of Reclamation projects, nonreimbursable allo- 581 See supra, p. 195. 882 See supra, pp. 144-146, and especially notes 103-104. eS3Id. Pertinent also is the authority of the Secretary of the Army to receive contributed funds from "States and political subdivisions thereof" to be expended with appropriated funds for authorized flood-control work, whenever such work and expenditure are recommended by the Chief of Engineers as advantageous in the public interest. When such contributions are in excess of the actual cost properly chargeable to such contributions, such excess may be returned to the proper representatives of the contributing interests. Act of June 22, 1936, § 5, 49 Stat. 1570, 1572, as added by Act of July 19,1937, § 1, 50 Stat. 515, 518, 33 U. S. C. 701h. 584 Act of June 22,1936, § 3, 49 Stat. 1570,1571, as added by Act of August 28,1937, § 4, 50 Stat. 876, 877, 33 U. S. C. 701c. |