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...... lllIlJ~JJ -5- SPECIAL CONTRACTS I LAND RECLASSI FI CATION Seotion 7 authorizes the negotiation of special contracts for projects which have repayment problems requiring special trea1mant. Speoial investi- gations are authori zoo but no contract would be exeout.ed wit.hout. specifio congressional authority. Seotion 8 provides for olassification or reclassification of land on projects. Applications must be made to the Seoretary within a year from the data of the aot for any olassification desired by a'district, with a list of lands of law productivi~ or asserted to be non-productive. After a preliminary investigation determines the request has meri.t, tho Seoretary may direct a reolassification. One-half of the expense is to ba borne by the organization and one-half charged t.o the nan-reimbursable maintenance operations of the Bureau of Reclamation. No adjustment of a repayment contract, as a result of suoh classification or reclassifioation, may be made without authorization by the Congress. COlllSTRUCTION OF NEW PROJECTS Secti.on 9 relates to the construction of new projects, new divisions ofprojects and new supplemental works on projects. The provisions of this seotion would require, as a condition preoedent to the authorization of any such construction or expenditure of IJDneys therefor, findings by the Secretary of the Interior as to any appropriate allooations of the estimated costs of irrigation, power and miscellaneous purposes and a report thereon submitted by him to the President and the Congress. Such allocations for flood oontrol or navigation as the Seoretary of the Interior might find to be proper, on consultation with the Chief of Engineers and the Seoretary of War, would be permitted. Any such construction would be doemed authorized by this section only if the total amotmt of the allooations made for the above-mentioned purposes were equal to the estimated cost of construction. Tho provisions of this section are substantially in accordance with recont acts of tho Congress relating to multipla-purpose projeots constructed by tho Bureau of Reclamation. They recognize the widespread and multiplo benefits derivad from construction under the reclolIls:tion program and provi ,a for an oqui tabla and mora widespread distribution of the costs of those benofits.