Chapter 19. Making supplemental appropriations to provide for emergency construction on certain public works during the remainder of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, with a view to increasing employment
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CHAP. 19.— An Act Making supplemental appropriations to provide for emergency construction on certain public works during the remainder of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, with a view to increasing employment. December 20, 1930.[[H. R. 14804](/us/bill/71/hr/14804).][[Public, No. 550](/us/pl/71/550).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Emergency construction appropriations, fiscal year 1931. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of providing for emergency construction on certain public works during the remainder of the fiscal year 1931 with a view to increasing employment, namely. 1031 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUREDepartment of Agriculture. forest serviceForest Service.
Improvement of National Forests: For the construction and maintenanceNational forests.Roads, bridges, etc., for development of. of roads, trails, bridges, fire lanes, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931, $3,000,000. special road itemsSpecial Road Items. National Forest Highways: For the construction and improvementHighways improvements. of highways within the boundaries of the national forests, fiscal year 1931, $3,000,000.
Roads on Unappropriated or Unreserved Public Lands, NontaxableIndian lands.Cooperative road construction through unappropriated, etc., other than forest reserves. Indian Lands, and so forth: For the survey, construction, reconstruction, and maintenance of main roads through unappropriated or unreserved public lands, nontaxable Indian lands, or other Federal reservations other than the forest reservations, under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act To amend the Act entitled ‘An Act to*Ante*, p. 805.*Post*, p. 1563. provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes,’ approved July 11, 1916, as amended and supplemented, and for other purposes,” approved June 24, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 805), fiscal year 1931, $3,000,000.
Federal-Aid Highway System: For apportionment to the several Federal Aid Highway Act.Apportionment to States of temporary advances, for expenditure under.*Post*, p. 1086.*Provisos*.Term for reimbursement.States under the provisions of the Federal Highway Act, as amended, as a temporary advance of funds to meet the provisions of such Act as to State funds required on Federal-aid projects, $80,000,000: *Provided*, That the sums so advanced shall be reimbursed to the Federal Government over a period of five years, commencing with the fiscal year 1933, by making deductions from regular apportionments made from future authorizations for carrying out the provisions of such Act as amended and supplemented: *Provided further*,Limited to work performed by September 1, 1931.
That the amounts advanced in consequence hereof shall be limited in each case to the sum actually paid out by a State under such advance for work performed before September 1, 1931, for the construction of Federal-aid projects: *Provided further*, That should anyDisposition of unclaimed allotments. State fail to claim any part of its allotment hereunder the President may reapportion such unclaimed funds to States capable of using them prior to September 1, 1931. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORDepartment of the Interior. national park serviceNational Parks.
Roads and Trails: For the construction, reconstruction, andRoads and trails, construction, etc., in parks and monuments. improvement of roads and trails, inclusive of necessary bridges, in the national parks and national monuments under the jurisdiction*Ante*, p. 319.*Post*, p. 1069. of the Department of the Interior, fiscal year 1931, $1,500,000. WAR DEPARTMENTWar Department. corps of engineersEngineer Corps. Rivers and harbors: For the preservation and maintenance ofRivers and harbors.Preservation, construction, etc., of existing projects.*Ante*, p. 463. existing river and harbor works, and for the prosecution of such projects heretofore authorized as may be most desirable in the interests of commerce and navigation, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931, $22,500,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers and to remain available until expended. 1032 Mississippi, etc., Rivers.Flood control work.Vol. 45, p. 534.*Ante*, p. 787.*Post*, pp. 1030, 1086.[U.
S. C., Supp. IV, p. 475](/us/usc/p475).Interchangeable appropriations.Flood control, Mississippi River and tributaries: For prosecuting the work of flood control in accordance with the provisions of the Flood Control Act, approved May 15, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 33, sec. 702a), $3,000,000, to remain available until expended. Sec. 2. The sums herein appropriated shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named in this Act upon order of the President stating the amounts and the appropriations between which such interchanges are to be made.
Sec. 3. Detailed report to Congress. A report shall be submitted to Congress on the first day of the next regular session showing, by projects or other appropriate detailed classification, the amounts allocated under each of the foregoing appropriations, the expenditures under each allocation, and such other information which the President may deem pertinent in advising Congress as to the allocation and expenditure of such appropriations. Approved, December 20, 1930.