Bureau of Reclamation, Interior Department: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eightieth Congress, Second SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1948 - 988 pages Investigates contractor work stoppage at Central Valley Project, Calif., due to depletion of appropriated funds. |
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administrative allocated amount answer Antideficiency Act apportionment available funds BABB BATSON believe BOKE Bureau of Reclamation CALLAND carry-over Central Valley project Chairman Columbia Basin project Commissioner committee Congress construction contract earnings contracting officer contractors correct cost December Delta-Mendota canal district engineer equitable adjustment exhaustion of funds expenditures fact figures fiscal year 1948 FRASER Friant Friant-Kern canal funds available GENDRON going GOLZÉ Government hearings irrigation January KASTL KUBACH letter MARKWELL MARTIN memorandum months notice November 26 November 30 obligation payments Peter Kiewit Sons PETERSON provision question record regional director request rights-of-way Sacramento schedule Secretary Senator CORDON Senator DOWNEY Senator DwORSHAK Senator HAYDEN Senator KNOWLAND Senator O'MAHONEY Senator WHERRY Shasta Shasta Dam shut shut-down situation specifications statement STRAUS supplemental appropriation teletype testified testimony thing tion understand unobligated balance WARNE Washington
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Page 217 - WORK (a) The Contracting Officer may order the Contractor in writing to suspend all or any part of the work for such period of time as he may determine to be appropriate for the convenience of the Government.
Page 128 - Unless such suspension unreasonably delays the progress of the work and causes additional expense or loss to the Contractor, no increase in contract price will be allowed. In the case of suspension of all or any part of the work for an unreasonable length of time, causing additional expense or loss, not due to the fault or negligence of the Contractor, the Contracting Officer shall make an equitable adjustment in the contract price and modify the contract accordingly.
Page 201 - All appropriations made for contingent expenses or other general purposes, except appropriations made in fulfillment of contract obligations expressly authorized by law, or for objects required or authorized by law without reference to the amounts annually appropriated therefor...
Page 457 - Where the operations of this contract extend beyond the current fiscal year, the contract is made contingent upon Congress making the necessary appropriation for expenditures hereunder after such current year shall have expired. In case such appropriation as may be necessary to carry out this contract is not made, the Contractor hereby releases the United States from all liability due to the failure of Congress to make such appropriation.
Page 451 - River and the Sacramento River, controlling floods, providing for storage and for the delivery of the stored waters thereof...
Page 303 - Commission, and the International Boundary and Water Commission of the United States and Mexico.
Page 130 - ... construction or operation and maintenance of any project, the Secretary may, in connection with such construction or operation and maintenance, enter into contracts for miscellaneous services, for materials and supplies, as well as for construction, which may cover such periods of time as the Secretary may consider necessary but in which the liability of the United States shall be contingent upon appropriations being made therefor.
Page 127 - Congress will make additional appropriations applicable to work under this contract, but as to this it must be distinctly understood and agreed that the Government is in no case to be made liable for damages in connection with this contract on account of delay in payments on same due to a lack of available funds. Should it become apparent to the contracting officer that the available funds will be exhausted before additional funds are appropriated, the contracting officer will give 30 days...
Page 257 - Senator COBDON. That would help? Mr. HASLER, That is right, sir. Senator CORDON. And the sound, sensible, workable relationship between the two, the Government on the one hand and the contractor on the other, is to set up spelled-out provisions under which these accommodations to available funds can be had and had as early in the fiscal year as possible? That is the proper answer; is it not ? Mr.
Page 93 - ... the Contracting Officer shall make an equitable adjustment in the contract price, the delivery schedule, or both, and shall modify the contract.