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PUBLIC LAW 877-AUG. 1, 1956

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said allocation, by application of (a) net revenues heretofore received from the sources described in article 4 of said contract, (b) those net revenues hereafter received from the same sources which are in excess of the amounts to be credited or paid to the district in accordance with said article, and (c) other net project revenues heretofore or hereafter received from project sources which are properly creditable to the Tule Lake division under the Federal reclamation laws. (c) the lands of the Klamath project, presently within its Tule Lake division, which lie in Siskiyou County, California, west of range 4 east. Mount Diablo meridian, and in the vicinity of Lower Klamath Lake, including lands heretofore uncovered by the changing level of that lake, are hereby severed from said division, and appropriate portions of the costs of the works of the Klamath project heretofore or hereafter constructed which serve said lands shall be allocated by the Secretary to those lands. Any repayment contract entered into under the Federal reclamation laws with respect to them shall require water users thereon to assume such equitable share of said allocation as is within their repayment ability. Construction costs, if any, in excess of that amount shall be accounted for by the application of net revenues derived after December 31, 1942, from the leasing of Government-owned lands in the area aforesaid. Nothing contained in this subsection shall authorize the levying or collection of charges on account of project construction on lands utilized by the Fish and Wildlife Service in any national wildlife refuge. Any project construction costs assigned by the Secretary to such refuge lands shall be nonreimbursable. (d) the allocations provided for in subsections (b) and (c) of this section shall extend to all past and future expenditures except those for which special provision was made by section 15 of the Act of May 25, 1926 (44 Stat. 636, 639). Repeals. (e) the proviso attached to the item in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1941, appropriating funds for construction of the Klamath project (54 Stat. 406, 436), is repealed. Section 2, subsection (d), of the Act of June 17, 1944 (58 Stat. 279, 43 U. S. C, sec. 612) is repealed, but this repeal shall not affect the application of net revenues received prior to January 1, 1943, which was made by the second sentence thereof. (f) the Secretary is authorized to withdraw any public notice heretofore issued on the Klamath project which is applicable to lands of the Tule Lake division. enuer*in^to*'/ecir ^^^- ^' ^^^ rcvcuues of the Tulc Lake division which are derived mation fund. from sources other than those described in subsections (a), (b), and (c) of section 2 of this Act or which, although derived from said sources, are in excess of the amounts required for the purposes therein stated, shall be covered into the reclamation fund for application, to the extent necessary, in aid of divisions or units of the Klamath project, including lands within the Tule Lake Irrigation District, hereafter authorized for construction pursuant to law. SEC. 4. Nothing contained in this Act or in the aforesaid contract shall be construed to affect the homesteading of the now unentered public lands within the Tule Lake Irrigation District as promptly as the United States may deem desirable consistent with other authorized Leases. uses, but the Secretary shall, in the meantime, continue the leasing of public lands to provide adequate funds for the purposes of this Act and said contract and to prepare and make said lands available for the designated purposes. Approved August 1, 1956.

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