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PUBLIC LAW 364-MAY 18, 1954

departmeiit, independent establishment, or agency of the United States which is to use water therefrom a suitable meter or meters and incidental vaults, valves, piping and recording devices, and such other equipment as the Commissioners in their discretion deem necessary to control and record the use of water through each such connection. Payment shall be made as provided in subsection (b) of this section. Whenever any payment authorized by this section is made, such payment shall be in lieu of so much of the annual payment authorized by article VI of the Act approved July 16, 1947 (61 Stat. 328, 361), as pertains to the Water Fund of the District. The provisions of sections 102, 103, and 104 of this title, relating, respectively, to enforcement of payment for water charges by penalty charge for late payment, by shutting off of the water supply for nonpayment, and the imposition of lien and sale of property, shall not apply in any case where water or water service is furnished to a building, establishment, or other place owned by the Government of the United States and occupied by a department, independent establishment, or agency thereof. (b) For the purpose of effectuating the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, there shall be included annually in the budget estimates of the Commissioners the value, as determined by the Commissioners, of the water and water services furnished to the United States during the most recent preceding fiscal year for which such value can be determined, based on the water rates prevailing during the period of consumption, and there shall be appropriated annually for the District to the credit of the said Water Fund, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated (to be advanced on July 1 of each fiscal year beginning July 1, 1954), a sum corresponding to the value of the water and water services furnished the United States. SEC. 107. The first proviso of section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and for other purposes", approved July 1, 1882 (22 Stat. 144; sec. 43-1504, D. C. Code, 195} edition), is amended by striking the word "annually" and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "at least once every twelve months, or whenever practicable in the judgment of the Commissioners, at least once every six months". SEC. 108. (a) Subsection (a) of section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act authorizing loans from the United States Treasury for the expansion of the District of Columbia water system", approved June 2, 1950 (64 Stat. 195; sec. 43-1540, D. C. Code, 1951 edition), is amended by striking the figures "23,0CK),000", and inserting in lieu thereof the figures "35,000,000". (b) Subsections (c) and (d) of section 2 of such Act approved June 2, 1950, are amended to read as follows: "(c) Any loan advanced pursuant to this section shall be repaid to the Secretary of the Treasury in substantially equal annual payments, including principal and interest, within a period of thirty years beginning on July 1 of the second fiscal year following the date on which each such advance is credited to the Water F u n d: Provided, That any such loan advanced prior to the effective date of this amendatory section shall, for the purpose of determining the time when repayment thereof shall begin, be deemed to have been credited to the Water Fund on such effective date, and interest accrued on any such loan advanced prior to the effective date of this amendatory section shall be paid at such time and in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury shall determine: Provided further, That the Commissioners may, in their discretion, make repaymeaits in larger amounts at any

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Budget mates.

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Water sy stem expansion. Loans.

D. C. Code 431540.

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