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 81ST CONG., IST SESS.-CH. 93-MAY 6, 1949 Secretary is hereby authorized to execute them on behalf of the United States. BITTER ROOT PROJECT, MONTANA SEC. 2. The contract dated September 16, 1948, with the Bitter Root irrigation district. (a) The Act of July 3, 1930 (46 Stat. 852), entitled "An Act for the rehabilitation of the Bitter Root irrigation project, Montana", and the Act of August 26, 1935 (49 Stat. 799), amending that Act, are hereby repealed. KLAMATH PROJECT, OREGON SEC. 3. The contract dated August 20, 1948, with the Shasta View irrigation district. OKANOGAN PROJECT, WASHINGTON SEC. 4. The contract dated September 20, 1948, with the Okanogan irrigation district. (a) The Act of May 25, 1928 (45 Stat. 739), entitled "An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to transfer the Okanogan project, in the State of Washington, to the Okanogan irrigation dis- trict upon payment of charges stated", is hereby repealed. SHOSHONE PROJECT, WYOMING SEC. 5. The contract with the Willwood irrigation district which was approved by the electors of said district on December 18, 1948. (a) The construction charge obligation in the amount of $9,843 on account of eighty-five and eighty-three one-hundredths acres of land classified in a paying class under the Act of December 5, 1924, and found to be permanently unproductive under the reclassification of lands to be approved under said contract shall be deducted from the contractual obligation of said Willwood irrigation district. (b) The construction charge obligation on account of two hundred thirty-six and eighty-five one-hundredths acres of land classified under the Act of December 5, 1924, as productive and found to be of insuffi- cient productive power to be continued in a paying class under the reclassification of lands to be approved under said contract shall be suspended until the Secretary of the Interior shall declare them to be of sufficient productive power properly to be placed in the paying class. While said lands are so classified as temporarily unproductive and the construction charge obligation on account of them is sus- pended, water for irrigation purposes may be furnished upon payment of the usual operation and maintenance charges or such other charges as may be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, the advance payment of which may be required in the discretion of the said Secretary. Should said lands temporarily classified as unproductive, or any of them in the future, be found by the Secretary of the Interior to be permanently unproductive, the construction charge obligation on account of them shall be charged off as a permanent loss to the reclamation fund at the per acre rates originally announced for the tracts, including any such lands in the public orders affecting such tracts. UNCOMPAHGRE PROJECT, COLORADO SEC. 6. The contract dated December 13, 1948, with the Uncom- pahgre Valley Water Users' Association. (a) The June 1948 report of the Secretary of the Interior on the reclassification of the land of the Uncompahgre project, made in Repeal. Repeal. 43 Stat. 672, 701. 43U.S.C.§371et seq. Suspension of con- struction charge obli- gation. 43 Stat. 672, 701. 43U.S.C.§371et seq. Water for Irrigation purposes. 63 STAT.] 63

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