Section 2
SEC. 2. Between paragraphs (a) and (b), between paragraphs (b) and (c), and after paragraph (f) of Section two of the same Act, there are hereby inserted paragraphs (a-1), (b-1), and (g) and (h), respectively, to read as follows: "(a-1) All applications for reparations shall be accompanied by project studies with an evaluation report on the estimated cost of the project together with a detailed breakdown thereof based on the specifications. The evaluation report and its supporting documents shall be made under oath certifying to the genuineness of the information, data, figures, or other evidences submitted. "(b-2) An evaluation report under oath on the estimated cost of the consumer goods shall accompany every application for goods other than capital goods. "(g) Any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, the government shall, in the purchase of supplies, equipment and materials, other things being equal, give preference to supplies, equipment and materials made, produced and manufactured out of capital goods obtained from reparations. "(h) Size of the tentative schedule.&mdashEffective July twenty-three, nineteen hundred sixty-two, the value of the tentative schedule, including any and all additional projects, to be submitted to the Japanese Government, and any and all changes therein, whether by way of addition, substitution, or deletion, whether in kind, quantity, or value, whether partial or total, whether made before or after the conclusion of the agreed schedule, as may be authorized pursuant to this Act, shall not in any case exceed the total of (1) the funds available for the corresponding reparations year and (2) one-half of the funds available for one reparations years, as certified by the Chief of the Philippine Reparations Mission: Provided, That no item which can be manufactured in a single year shall be spread out in more than one year's schedule."