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 Public Laws ENACTED

DURING

THE

SECOND SESSION OF THE EIGHTY-THIRD CONGRESS OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday, January 6, 1954, the House of Representatives adjourning sine die on Friday, August 20, 1964, and the Senate adjourning sine die on Thursday, December 2, 1954. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President; RICHARD M. NIXON, Vice President; J O S E P H W. M A R T I N, Jr., Speaker oj the House oj Representatives.

Public Law 289

CHAPTER 1

AN ACT To provide that certain costs siiul expenses incurred in connection with certain repayment contracts with irrigation districts approved by the Acts of Congress of May 6, 1949 ((J3 Stat. 62), Octol)er 27, 1949 (63 Stat. 941), and June 23, 1652 (66 Stat. 151, 153), shall be nonreimbursable.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all costs and expenses, not in excess of a total of $100,000, incurred by the United States in negotiating and completing contracts with the Deaver, Prosser, and Belle Fourche irrigation districts approved by the Act of Congress of October 27, 1949 (63 Stat. 941), and with the Willwood, Bitterroot, Kittitas, and Okanogan irrigation districts approved by the Act of Congress of May 6, 1949 (63 Stat. 62), and with the Frenchtown irrigation district approved by the Act of Congress of June 23, 1952 (66 Stat. 151, 153) in making the investigation in connection therewith, and in future determinations under said contracts with respect to the productivity of temporarily unproductive lands shall be, to the extent that such costs and expenses have not been included in the restated repayment obligations of the irrigation districts involved, nonreimbursable and nonreturnable under the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto). Approved January 30, 1954. 3

January 30, 1954 [S. 72^]

Irr i gat ion d i stricts. Repayment contracts.

43 USC 371.

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