UNEXPENDED BALANCE

Mr. ROONEY. One further question before we leave this item. Did you have any unexpended balance at the end of the fiscal year 1950? Mr. FRANK B. CLAYTON. Yes, sir; we did.

Mr. ROONEY. How much?

Mr. COLLINS CLAYTON. Is that for construction, sir?

Mr. ROONEY. No; I am talking of salaries and expenses.

Mr. WILBER. Under "Salaries and expenses," Mr. Chairman, our balance is estimated to be $18,826.

Mr. ROONEY. The next item is for construction, which appears at page 37 of the committee print and 403 of the justifications. At this point in the record we shall insert pages 403 and 404 of the justifications.

(The matter referred to is as follows:)

Summary of requirements, fiscal year 1952

Mr. ROONEY. You have a requested increase in the amount of $13,200,000 above the current year's appropriation. The largest single item contained under this title, "Construction," is for the Falcon Dam. What is the present estimated cost of the United States share of the construction of the Falcon Dam? This changes every year, so I am interested in what it is this year.

Mr. FRANK B. CLAYTON. The total estimated cost of everything for the United States Section is $36 million.

Mr. ROONEY. When did you arrive at that figure?

Mr. FRANK B. CLAYTON. That figure was arrived at after the bids were received. Our estimates were higher than that, but after the bids were received we decreased them. These bids are for the dam and power plants alone. There is also acquisition of land and removal of highways and the building of construction camps in the United States, items that are not divided between the United States and Mexico.

Mr. ROONEY. What is your current estimated cost of the dam alone, without the other items you describe and without the cost of the power plant or the power units?

Mr. FRANK B. CLAYTON. The estimate, I believe-Mr. Collins Clayton will check me on the dam alone $33,407,000, of which 58.6 percent is allocated to the United States and 41.4 percent to Mexico. The power plants are estimated to cost $12,658,000 which is divided on an equal basis, 50-50, between the United States and Mexico.

Mr. ROONEY. What is the breakdown of the figure $36 million that you gave me a while ago; how much for the dam itself and how much for the power units?

Mr. COLLINS CLAYTON. There is quite a list of figures. Would you like me to submit this?

Mr. ROONEY. Let me see it, please. Please furnish each member of the committee with a copy of this estimate of the construction program.

Mr. COLLINS CLAYTON. Yes, sir; we shall submit it.

(The statement submitted follows:)

International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and MexicoEstimated construction program and rate of expenditures-Falcon Dam and power plants

UNQBLIGATED BALANCE, 1950

Mr. ROONEY. What was your unobligated balance as of the close of the last fiscal year?

Mr. COLLINS CLAYTON. The unobligated balance at the close of the fiscal year 1950 was $4,053,896.

Mr. ROONEY. Are you sure that it was not $9,027,126?

Mr. COLLINS CLAYTON. No, sir; that sounds like the total appropriated and allotted to the dam.

Mr. ROONEY. What was the other figure you gave me?

Mr. COLLINS CLAYTON. $4,053,896. That is the unobligated balance at the end of June 30, 1950.

Mr. ROONEY. Is it not $4,917,733?

Mr. WILBER. Yes, sir; that is the correct figure, Mr. Chairman. Mr. ROONEY. You were about $900,000 short.

UNEXPENDED BALANCE, 1951

What is the expected unexpended balance at the end of the current fiscal year?

Mr. COLLINS CLAYTON. Approximately $200,000, at the most. Mr. ROONEY. You said something a while ago, Mr. Clayton, with regard to revising your estimate after the bids were in.

Mr. FRANK B. CLAYTON. Yes, sir.

Mr. ROONEY. What is the date of the estimates which I hold in my hand-the formal 1952 budget estimates?

Mr. FRANK B. CLAYTON. There is no date on that, Mr. Rooney: I do not know the date. The only thing I know is, that was made up after we received the bids. The bids were lower than we had estimated.

Mr. COLLINS CLAYTON. It was revised in November, sir; the exact date I do not have here.

ELIMINATED PROJECTS

Mr. ROONEY. On page 403 of the justifications you set forth three projects that will be eliminated in the coming fiscal year-"Nogales sanitation," "Western land boundary fence," and "Douglas-Agua Prieta sanitation."

Mr. FRANK B. CLAYTON. Yes, sir. The Nogales sanitation will be completed this fiscal year.

Mr. AINSWORTH. The contractor's date of completion is April 15,

1951.

Mr. ROONEY. How about the western land boundary fence? Mr. FRANK B. CLAYTON. It has been stopped. We have done a little over a third of the construction work on it. The Douglas-Agua Prieta sanitation has been completed.

Mr. ROONEY. Why have you stopped building the fence?

Mr. FRANK B. CLAYTON. That seemed to be one item that could be eliminated in the light of the emergency.

Mr. ROONEY. Is that the only project in this item which has been recommended to be eliminated by the Bureau of the Budget?

Mr. FRANK B. CLAYTON. I believe there was an item on the Calexico sanitation project. That is the sanitation project at Calexico, Calif., and at Mexicali