ADMINISTRATIVE.

ACCIDENTS.

Accidents involving loss of life or property or extraordinary incidents should be reported promptly to the Washington office by wire or mail, with copy to the Denver office, giving the principal facts and sufficient information to enable these offices to answer ordinary inquiries.

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ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION.

1. Secretary of the Interior.-The Reclamation Service is under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. He is responsible to Congress for operations and expenditures under the reclamation acts as well as for action concerning public lands in connection with the reclamation work and the appointment of employees. His approval of all important features must be obtained in advance.

WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.

2. Reclamation Commission. An office is maintained in Washington as the headquarters of the service. This office is in charge of the Reclamation Commission, composed of the director and chief engineer (chairman), the chief counsel, and the comptroller. These officers determine matters of general policy and recommend appropriate action thereon to the Secretary of the Interior; but no action of the members, individually or collectively, becomes effective unless it is in pursuance of authority previously given by the Secretary of the Interior.

3. Director and chief engineer.-The director and chief engineer is the executive officer of the service. He governs and controls all employees engaged in investigating, constructing, operating, and maintaining projects. He issues all instructions required to carry out approved policies and for executing the necessary work through the executive office at Denver. He controls an administrative examination of all accounts in Washington. He has power to sign any contracts and make any commitments authorized by the Secretary of the Interior and has control of all employees except those under the chief counsel.

4. Chief counsel.-The chief counsel is the head of the legal division and conducts all investigations involving the legal rights and privileges of the service. He controls all employees of his division, corresponding direct with the district counsel in regard to legal affairs, but communicates with the executive department through the director and chief engineer and regular channels.

5. Comptroller.-The comptroller is the head of the inspection division and conducts the inspection of fiscal practices and accounts. For this purpose he controls a force of inspectors and accountants to insure the thorough inspection of methods and practices and audit of the accounts kept in all offices of the service, and to collect and

compile information as to fiscal affairs required by the Secretary of the Interior and the service. The comptroller advises the director and chief engineer of all irregularities and the latter rectifies the matter through regular channels.

6. Legal division. The legal division handles all land and legal matters pertaining to the service. (See also District counsel, instructions to.)

7. Engineering section. The engineer in charge of the engineering section assists the director and chief engineer in the handling of correspondence and administrative details of an engineering nature, supervises the designing and drafting work of the office, the review and publication of plans and specifications, and the compilation of construction records and statistics. A reference library in the section contains several thousand volumes of project histories, specifications, cost data, engineering investigations, United States Geological Survey water supply papers, State engineers' reports, technical periodicals, and technical books on irrigation.

8. Accounting section. The chief accountant in the Washington office has general supervision of all fiscal and accounting matters of the service and reports to the director and chief engineer. He also has charge of all accounting and cost-keeping records in the Washington office. The clerical employees handling accounting matters who are located in the field offices are under the administrative direction of the project managers.

9. Examiners of accounts.-The examiners of accounts, or fiscal inspectors, travel from project to project, reporting to the comptroller upon the efficiency of the fiscal work in the field and upon the personnel engaged in this work, together with all other matters upon which the director and chief engineer may call for report. The engineers in the field should cooperate with the inspectors and render them all necessary assistance.

10. Reclamation settlement section. The statistician in charge of the reclamation settlement or information division has charge of all matters pertaining to the dissemination of information concerning the lands and opportunities for home-making or procuring reclaimed lands.

. 11. Chief clerk.-The chief clerk is in charge of the supplies, mails and files, appointments, and stenographic sections, the messenger, janitor, and elevator services.

DENVER (COLO.) OFFICE.

12. Executive office. An executive office is maintained at Denver in charge of the chief of construction, who is appointed by the Secretary of the Interior on the recommendation of the director and chief engineer. All matters relating to the management and execution of

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the work in the field pass through the Denver office, except when, in the opinion of the director and chief engineer, an emergency or special conditions warrant a departure from this practice. Under the latter circumstances copies of all instructions are forwarded promptly to the Denver office for its information and files.

13. Chief of construction.-The chief of construction represents the director and chief engineer in the field and is in charge of all matters relating to the management and execution of the work in the field and all employees engaged in the construction, operation, and maintenance of the projects and works incident thereto. All instructions issued from the office of the chief of construction on administrative and engineering matters relating to the management and execution of the work in the field are issued over the signature of the chief of construction or the acting chief of construction in case of the absence of the former from the office.

14. Assistant chief of construction.-The assistant chief of construction acts as principal assistant to the chief of construction and is senior engineer for the central division.

15. Office engineer.-The office engineer assists the chief of construction on engineering details, examines contracts and specifications, and supervises the inspection of materials purchased under contract. 16. Drainage engineer.-The drainage engineer assists the chief of construction on drainage matters and acts in an advisory capacity to the project managers on drainage problems. When there is apparent need of drainage or assistance is desired in working out details of drainage investigations or construction, the project manager should call the matter to the attention of the chief of construction, who will authorize such studies, investigations, and assistance as may seem necessary.

17. Electrical engineer. The electrical engineer advises the chief of construction on mechanical and electrical engineering matters and supervises the design and examination of plans submitted for approval of permanent mechanical and electrical installations. He also acts in an advisory capacity to project officers on the construction and operation of such installations.

18. Designing engineer. The designing engineer supervises all designing and drafting done in the Denver office and acts in an advisory capacity in the examination of all plans and designs submitted for approval with the exception of mechanical and electrical work.

19. Cement expert. The cement expert supervises all work in connection with testing and shipping cement.

20. Chief clerk. The chief clerk has charge of the clerical division. including mails and files, stenographic, disbursing, bookkeeping, and fund accounting.

21. Purchasing agent.-The purchasing agent supervises all purchases made through the Denver office and has charge of the purchasing division.

22. Cost and property section. The officer in charge of this section supervises costkeeping methods of the service, maintains files of all project cost reports, and compiles and assembles data from cost reports in such manner as to afford proper information and comparison. He also has oversight of all equipment, arranges transfers and maintains records of all equipment, materials, or supplies available for transfer on the various projects, and keeps a record of all nonexpendable property for which the various projects are accountable. He makes periodical inspection to enable him to advise as to the suitability of equipment when transfer is considered, makes recommendation when new equipment is purchased, advises as to care of equipment, and instructs as to disposition of surplus or worthless articles.

PROJECT OFFICES.

A local office is maintained on each project, in charge of a project manager or engineer, who controls all the employees engaged in the construction or operation of the project and who is held strictly responsible for the economical and efficient administration of the project office.

23. Senior engineers. For convenience of administration and report the arid region is divided by the Reclamation Service into four divisions, namely, Northern, Pacific, Central, and Southern. In each division is located a senior engineer in charge of one of the important projects in that division, who is expected to be more or less familiar with the problems in all of the projects of his division, and to be available for consultation in connection therewith upon short notice, although his time is given mainly to the management of the project where he is located.

24. Project managers.-Project managers are in sole and responsible charge of all work on their respective projects and such territory contiguous thereto as may be assigned by the chief of construction. They report to the chief of construction and receive from him all instructions in regard to administrative and engineering details in connection with the management and execution of the work in the field.

25. Project employees. On each project under the direction of the project manager or engineer are employed irrigation superintendents, engineers, and assistants assigned to particular features of the work, a chief clerk, fiscal agent, bookkeeper, and other necessary clerks, mechanics, and laborers.