The program on the Santa Ynez River Watershed is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Acting Secretary of Agriculture in House Document Numbered 518, Seventy-eighth Congress, Second Session, and approved by the act of Congress approved December 22, 1944, Public Law 534, Seventy-eighth Congress, Second Session, and as further authorized by act of Congress approved May 17, 1951, Public Law 516, Eighty-first Congress, Second Session, at an estimated cost to the State of one hundred six thousand dollars ($106,000).