Section 35. Certain federal aid improvements

This article shall not impair
  nor affect provisions of chapter six hundred eighty-eight of the laws of
  nineteen  hundred thirty-four which authorize and direct compliance with
  the  federal  laws,  rules,  regulations  and  conditions  which  govern
  contracts  and  expenditures  for  the  canal improvements authorized or
  prosecuted by or under such chapter, with financial aid from the federal
  government; and this article shall apply to  such  improvements  and  to
  contracts  therefor  only  in  so  far  as  it  is  consistent with such
  provisions.