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secure engineering and other services and to employ en- 

 gineers, except in projects not providing for municipal 

 or Industrial water supplies, when the local organization 

 may or may not employ engineers, provided for reimburse- 

 ment of costs of engineers, authorized the Secretary to 

 contract for engineers or to utilize engineers employed 

 by the Federal Government when local organizations do 

 not employ any. permitted advances, required transmit- 

 tal of plans when Federal contributions to construction 

 costs are more than $250,000 or the works include any 

 structures with more thr.n 2.500 acre-feet of total capac- 

 ity, eliminated provisions which required transmittal 45 

 days prior to commencement of insUUation. and reduced 

 the period for submission of plans to the Secretaries of 

 the Interior and the Army from 60 days to 30 days prior 

 to transmittal to Congress. 



Act July 19. 1956. substituted "ftfteen" for "forty-five." 



§ 1006. Cooperative programs. 



The Secretary is authorized in cooperation with 

 other Federal and with States and local agencies to 

 make investigations and surveys of the watersheds of 

 rivers and other waterways as a basis for the de- 

 velopment of coordinated programs. In areas where 

 the programs of the Secretary of Agriculture may 

 affect public or other lands under the jurisdiction of 

 the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of the 

 Interior is authorized to cooperate with the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture in the planning and development 

 of works or programs for such lands. (Aug. 4, 1954, 

 ch. 656, § 6, 68 Stat. 668.) 



§ 1006a. Loans or advancements for financing local 

 share of costs; repayment; interest; maximum 

 amount. 



The Secretary is authorized to make loans or ad- 

 vancements (a) to local organizations to finance the 

 local share of costs of carrying out works of improve- 

 ment provided for in this chapter, and (b) to State 

 and local agencies to finance the local share of costs 

 of carrying out works of improvement (as defined 

 in section 1002 of this title) in connection with the 

 eleven watershed improvement programs authorized 

 by section 13 of the Act of December, 22, 1944 (58 

 Stat. 887). as amended and supplemented: Provided, 

 That the works of improvement in connection with 

 said eleven watershed improvement programs shall 

 be integral parts of watershed or subwatershed work 

 plans agreed upon by the Secretary of Agriculture 

 and the concerned State and local agencies. Such 

 loans or advancements shall be made under con- 

 tracts or agreements which will provide, under such 

 terms and conditions as the Secretary deems appro- 

 priate, for the repayment thereof in not more than 

 fifty years from the date when the principal benefits 

 of the works of improvement first become available, 

 with interest at the average rate, as determined by 

 the Secretary of the Treasury, payable by the Treas- 

 ury upon its marketable public obligations outstand- 

 ing at the beginning of the fiscal year in which the 

 loan or advancement is made, which are neither due 

 nor callable for redemption for fifteen years from 

 date of issue. With respect to any single plan for 

 works of improvement, the amount of any such loan 

 or advancement shall not exceed five million dollars. 

 (Aug. 4, 1954. ch. 656, § 8, as added Aug. 7, 1956, 

 ch. 1027, § Kg) , 70 Stat. 1090, and amended May 13, 

 1960. Pub. L. 86-468, § 1. 74 Stat. 131.) 



Ameksments 



1980 — Pub. L 86-468 authorized the Secretary to make 

 loans or advancements to state and local agencies to 

 finance the local share of costs of carrying out works of 

 Improvement in connection with the 11 watershed 

 Improvement programs authorized by section 13 of the 

 act of Dec. 22, 1944. 



§ 1006b. Territorial application. 



The provisions of this chapter shall be applicable 

 to Hawaii, Alaska. Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Is- 

 lands. (Aug. 4, 1954, ch. 656, § 9, as added Aug. 7, 

 1956. ch. 1027, § 1 (g) , 70 Stat. 1090.) 



PSOJCCTS ATTTHORCZD BErOBZ AOG. 7, 1966 



Section as applicable to all works of improvement and 

 plans for such works under the provisions of this chapter, 

 see section 2 of act Aug 7, 1956. set out as a note under 

 section 1001 of this title. 



Admission of Alaska and Hawaii to Statehood 

 Alaska was admitted Into the Union on Jan. 3. 1959, 

 upon the issuance of Proc. No. 3269. Jan. 3, 1959. 24 F.R. 

 81. 73 Stat cl6. and Hawaii was admitted into the Union 

 on Aug. 21. 1959. upon the issuance of Proc. No. 3309, 

 Aug 21. 1959, 24 FR. 6868. 73 Stat. c74. For Alaska State- 

 hood Law. see Pub L. 85-508. July 7. 1958, 72 Stat 339, 

 set out as a note preceding section 21 of Title 48, Terri- 

 tories and Insular Possessions. For Hawaii Statehood 

 Law. see Pub. L. 86-3, Mar. 18. 1959. 73 Stat. 4, set out 

 as a note preceding section 491 of Title 48. 



§ 1007. Appropriations. 



There are hereby authorized to be appropriated 

 such sums as may be necessary to carry out the pur- 

 poses of this chapter, such sums to remain available 

 until expended. No appropriation hereafter avail- 

 able for assisting local organizations in preparing 

 and carrying out plans for works of improvement 

 under the provisions of section 1003 of this title or 

 clause (ai of section 1006a of this title shall be avail- 

 able for any works of improvement pursuant to this 

 chapter or otherwise in connection with the eleven 

 watershed improvement programs authorized by 

 section 13 of the Act of December 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 

 887), as amended and supplemented, or for making 

 loans or advancements to State and local agencies as 

 authorized by clause (b) of section 1006a of this title. 

 (Aug. 4, 1954. ch. 656, § 10. formerly I 8, 68 Stat. 668, 

 renumbered Aug. 7, 1956, ch. 1027, § Kg). 70 Stat. 

 1090, and amended May 13. 1960, Pub, L. 86-468, § 3. 

 74 Stat. 132.) 



AMENDMD«TS 

 1960 — Pub. L. 86-468 prohibited appropriations avail- 

 able for assisting local organizations in preparing and 

 carrying out plans for works of improvement under 

 sections 1003 and 1006a(a) of this title from being used 

 for works of improvement in connection with the 11 

 watershed improvement programs authorized by section 

 13 of the act of Dec. 22, 1944. or for making loans or 

 advancements to state and local agencies as authorized 

 by section 1006a(b) of this title. 



§ 1008. Notification of Secretary of Interior of ap- 

 proval of assistance; surveys and investigations; 

 report and recommendations; consideration; cost 

 of surveys, investigations and reports. 



When the Secretary approves the furnishing of 

 assistance to a local organization in preparing a 

 plan for works of improvement as provided for in 

 section 1003 of this title. 



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