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Show 533 project shall be deemed authorized and may be undertaken after the Secretary of the Interior has submitted his report and feasibility findings "to the President and to the Congress."216 As earlier noted, such findings concern engineering feasibility, estimated construction costs, and the parts of those costs prop- erly allocable to irrigation, power, and municipal water supply or other miscellaneous purposes, together with any nonreim- bursable allocations to navigation, flood control, and preserva- tion and propagation of fish and wildlife.217 But if the Act's pay-out requirement is not met, individualized legislative approval is required.2*18 So also if an "affected" state or the Secretary of the Army objects to the plans or proposals.219 However a proposal for the construction of irrigation works in connection with Army dam and reservoir projects may be undertaken only after a report and finding, as described above, and after "subsequent specific authorization" by Congress.220 Here, it is provided that, "within the limits of the water users' repayment ability" the report may be predicated upon "the allocation to irrigation of an appropriate portion of the cost of the structures and facilities used for irrigation and other purposes."221 This authorization procedure is made expressly inapplicable to any dam or reservoir constructed by the Army Engineers prior to December 22,1944, which provides conserva- tion storage of water for irrigation purposes.222 The Secretary of the Interior is generally authorized in con- nection with the construction or operation and maintenance of any project to acquire lands or interests therein for the "re- location of highways, roadways, railroads, telegraph, telephone, or electric transmission lines, or any other properties whatso- ever," the relocation of which is necessitated by project con- 816 Act of August 4, 1939, § 9(a), 53 Stat. 1187, 1193, 43 U. S. C. 485h(a). See also supra, n. 257, p. 194. m See supra, pp. 194-196. 218 See supra, p. 195. 218 Act of December 22,1944, § l(c), 58 Stat. 887, 889. 320 Act of December 22, 1944, § 8, 58 Stat. 887, 891, 43 U. S. 0. 390. 231 Id. Of. Act of June 5, 1944, § 3, 58 Stat. 270, 43 U. S. 0. 593b (Hun- gry Horse Project). 828 Id. |