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Show 192 ports and recommendations must be made an integral part of any report submitted by the Bureau.241 In addition to these general provisions for cooperation, spe- cial provisions are made from time to time. For example, in connection with the continuation of investigations on the gen- eral plan for development of the Missouri River Basin, the General Appropriations Act, 1951, authorizes the Bureau to expend allotments "through or in cooperation with State and other Federal agencies," advances to such agencies being also authorized.242 We have earlier mentioned the jurisdiction of international commissions over certain international waters.243 Cooperation with such agencies is at times an incident of opera- tions of the Bureau.244 In the course of examinations and surveys, therefore, the Bureau cooperates with international and interstate agencies, state and other nonfederal agencies, and interdepartmental and intradepartmental agencies.245 A final feature concerning general investigations remains to be noted. The cost and expense of all such investigations, except when incurred on behalf of specific projects, shall be charged to the Reclamation Fund and not as a part of the reimbursable construction or operation and maintenance costs.248 Reports on Examinations and Surveys.-The 1902 Act originally required the Secretary to report annually to Con- 841 Id. See also infra, pp. 329-330. 242 Act of September 6,1950, ch. VII, § 101, 64 Stat. 595, -. 248 See supra, pp. 121-123, 148-149. *** In connection with the Mexican Water Treaty of 1944, there was for- mulated a Memorandum Agreement between the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Interior for cooperation between the United States Section, International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, and the Bureau of Reclamation, concerning the Rio Grande and the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers, dated February 14, 1945, approved by the President on June 18, 1945, H. Doc. No. 717, 80th Cong., 2d sess., App. 1407, p. A889 (1948). 445 For a discussion of participation by the Department of the Interior in interdepartmental coordination of federal water-resource activities, and of its own program for intradepartmental coordination, see infra, pp. 438-439, 431-433. 844 Act of December 5,1924, § 4, subsection O, 43 Stat. 672, 704, as amended, 43 U. S. C. 377. |