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PUBLIC LAW 541-JULY 27, 1954

SEC. 2. I n the construction, operation and maintenance of the Foster Creek division, the Secretary shall be governed by the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902,32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto) except that (a) the period provided in subsection (d), section 9, of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187), for repayment of construction costs properly chargeable to any block of lands and assigned to be repaid by the irrigators may be extended to fifty years, exclusive of a development period, from the time water is first delivered to that block or to as near that number of years as is consistent with the adoption and operation of a variable payment formula as hereinafter provided; (b) any repayment contract entered into may provide that the amounts to be paid annually thereunder shall be determined in accordance with a formula, mutually agreeable to the parties, which reflects economic conditions pertinent to the irrigators payment capacity; and (c) all construction costs which are beyond the ability of the irrigators to repay as hereinbefore provided shall be charged to, and returnable to the reclamation fund from, net revenues derived from the sale of power from the Chief Joseph Dam project which are over and beyond those required to amortize the power investment in said project and to return interest on the unamortized balance thereof. Power and energy required for irrigation pumping for the Foster Creek division authorized shall be made available by the Secretary from the Chief Joseph Dam powerplant and other Federal plants interconnected therewith at rates not to exceed the cost of such power and energy from the Chief Joseph Dam taking into account all costs of the dam, reservoir, and powerplant which are determined by the Secretary under the provisions of the Federal reclamation laws to be properly allocable to such irrigation pumping power and energy. SEC. 3. Reports on additional reclamation units in the vicinity of the Chief Joseph Dam project proposed to be constructed as units of the project shall be submitted by the Secretary from time to time in accordance with the provisions of the Act of July 17, 1952, supra. SEC. 4. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $4,798,000 plus or minus such amounts, if any, as may be justified by reason of ordinary fluctuations in the cost of said type of construction without endangering the economic feasibility of the Foster Creek division of the Chief Joseph Dam project, Washington. Approved July 27, 1954. Public Law 541

43 USC 371 note. 43 USC 485h.

Reports to Congress.

Appropriation.

CHAPTER 586

AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to convey a certain parcel of land to the city of Clifton, New Jersey.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed to the city of Clifton, New Jersey, upon payment by said city of 75 per centum of the appraised fair market value therefor as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to a parcel of land comprising the westerly portion of the United States Animal Quarantine Station, Clifton, New Jersey, lying along the southerly side of Colfax Avenue and containing approximately fourteen and one-quarter acres more or less, subject to the reservations, conditions, and restrictions of this Act.

July 27, 1954 [H. R. 4928]

Clifton, N. J. Conveyance.

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