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PUBLIC LAW 375-AUG. 12, 1955

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(c) the district will, in addition to the amounts specified under (a) above, pay to the United States such sums as may be required to cover the cost, including the cost of electrical pumping energy, of furnishing more than two acre-feet per irrigated acre as hereinbefore provided; (d) the district acknowledges and will cause each landowner to whom water is delivered to acknowledge that the contract confers upon it and them no right to the continued operation and maintenance of said works beyond the period during which it is in force unless, prior to the expiration thereof, the district shall have entered into a long-term contract conforming to the provisions of the Federal reclamation laws and that no permanent right to the use of water arises, attaches to their lands, or is claimed to arise or attach to their lands by virtue of the delivery of water through said works or the application to their lands of such water; (e) the district will comply fully with all provisions of the Federal reclamation laws which are not inconsistent with this Act and the contract executed pursuant to the authority contained herein; and (f) the contract shall, subject to the district's compliance with all of its terms and conditions, continue in force until December 31, 1955, and shall be renewed automatically for each of the nine succeeding calendar years unless either of the parties shall, on or before November 1 of any year, serve written notice of its intention that the contract shall not be renewed. Approved August 12, 1955. Public Law 375 August 12, 1955 [S. 756]

Wildlife restoration. Appropriation.

50 Stat. 917.

16 USC 669g.

CHAPTER 861

AN ACT To authorize the appropriation of accumulated receipts in the Federal aid to wildlife-restoration fund established by the Pittman-Robertson Act and to authorize the expenditure of funds apportioned to a State under such Act for the management of wildlife areas and resources.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of the Federal aid to wildlife restoration fund established by the Act entitled "An Act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in wildlife-restoration projects, and for other purposes", approved September 2, 1937, as amended (16 U.S.C. secs. 669-6691), for the 1956 fiscal year and for each fiscal year thereafter, an amount equal to 20 per centum of the accumulated unappropriated receipts in such fund on the date of enactment of this Act, until the accumulated unappropriated receipts in such fund on such date have been appropriated and expended. Funds appropriated under the authority of this section shall be made available to the States in accordance with the provisions of, and under the apportionment formula set forth in, such Act of September 2, 1937, and shall be in addition to the funds appropriated under section 3 of such Act. SEC. 2. Section 8 of such Act of September 2, 1937, as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, funds apportioned to a State under this Act may be expended by the State for management (exclusive of law enforcement and public relations) of wildlife areas and resources, but not more than 30 per centum of the total amount apportioned to a State for any fiscal year may be expended for such purpose." Approved August 12, 1955.

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