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 PUBLIC LAW 578-JULY 17, 1952

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SEC. 4, Nothing in this Act shall modify in any way the requirements and provisions of existing laws with respect to the availability of funds for construction and operation and maintenance of the Chief Joseph Dam and power plant. Approved July 17, 1952.

Public Law 578 July 17, 1952 [H. R. 6723]

Approval of certain irrigation contracts.

53 Stat. 1192. 43 USC 485f.

North P l a t t e Federal r e c l a m a tion project.

CHAPTER 926 AN ACT

To approve contracts negotiated with the Gering and Fort Laramie Irrigation District, the Goshen Irrigation District, and the Pathfinder Irrigation District, and to authorize their execution; and to authorize the execution of contracts with individual water right contractors on the North Platte Federal reclamation project, and for other purposes.

Be it sTiacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the contract with the Gering and Fort Laramie Irrigation District, which was approved by the district electors on November 15, 1951; the contract with the Goshen Irrigation District, which was approved by the district electors on November 15, 1951; and the contract with the Pathfinder Irrigation District, which was approved by the district electors on November 15, 1951, all of which have been negotiated by the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the Secretary), pursuant to subsection (a) of section 7 of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187; 43 U.S.C. 485), are hereby approved and the Secretary is hereby authorized to execute them on behalf of the United States. SEC. 2. The Secretary is hereby authorized to execute on behalf of the United States— (a) contracts with individual water right contractors on the North Platte Federal reclamation project whose lands are not included within the boundaries of a project irrigation district which contracts shall provide, among other things, (i) that said water user shall relinquish his interest in the present and potential power revenues of or related to the North Platte project; (ii) that the power acquisition consideration for each contractor, which shall be the proportionate part of $6,636,873 represented by the ratio of the contractor's irrigable acreage to the total irrigable acreage of the project, as determined by the Secretary, shall be applied as a credit upon the water user s obligation to the United States for construction charges and for future charges for operation and maintenance of project works; (iii) that the miscellaneous revenues accruing to the benefit of the water user, pursuant to subsections I and J of section 4 of the Act of December 5, 1924 (43 Stat. 672, 703), shall be retained by the United States for the establishment and maintenance of a fund in an amount fixed by the Secretary to be used by the Secretary for replacement and operation and maintenance of project works operated and maintained by the United States. SEC. 3. The authority granted in section 2 of this Act to make contracts shall continue for five years from the effective date of this Act, but the power acquisition consideration provided in section 2 of this Act for the individual water right contractors shall be reduced by whatever amount of net power revenues shall have accrued to the benefit of such individual water right contractors after June 30, 1950, by virtue of their not having previously relinquished their respective interests in said power revenues.

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