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 32 67 Stat. 5.

68 Stat. 402.

Effective date.

PUBLIC LAW 423--MAR. 1, 1966

V e n t u r a River project, Calif.

Construction, etc. 43 USC 371 note.

A l i o c a t i o n of costs.

ST A T.

SEC. 2. (a) Clause (1) of section 2 of such Act of June 23, 1949, as amended (2 U.S.C. sec. 46g), is amended by striking out "1,800" both times it appears therein and inserting in lieu thereof "3,000". (b) The eighth paragraph under the subheading "Contingent Expenses of the House" under the heading "House of Representatives" m the Legislative Appropriation Act, 1955, is amended by striking out ": Provided, That effective July 1, 1954, the number of minutes of official long-distance telephone calls allowed each Member shall not exceed 2,700 per annum". (c) Clause (2) of section 2 of such Act of June 23, 1949, is amended to read as follows: "(2) charges on strictly official telegrams, cablegrams, and radiograms sent by or on behalf of the Member aggregating during the year not more than 20,000 words of which not more than 2,000 may be in telegrams, cablegrams, and radiograms sent to or from a point outside the United States, or its Territories or possessions except that if a Member is elected for a portion of a term the aggregate number of words with respect to which charges may be paid under the first section shall be reduced, with respect to the year in which he commences his service, to a number which is the same percentage of 20,000 as the number of days of his service in such year is of the total number of days in such year." SEC. 3. The amendments made by this Act shall take effect as of noon on January 3, 1956. Approved February 27, 1956. CHAPTER 75

Public Law 423 March 1, 1956 [S. 926]

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AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Ventura River reclamation project, California.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemhJed, That, for the purpose of supplying water for the irrigation of lands in Ventura County, California, and for municipal, domestic, and industrial use therein, and for other incidental beneficial purposes, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain the Ventura River reclamation project comprising, as its principal works, Casitas Dam and Reservoir on Coyote Creek, Robles diversion dam on Ventura River, a canal to carry water from the Robles diversion dam to Casitas Reservoir, and other conduits and related facilities to deliver water to the lands and area to be served by the project. SEC. 2. (a) Li constructing, operating, and maintaining the Ventura River project, 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 as is otherwise provided in this Act. (b) In furnishing water for irrigation and for mimicipal, domestic, and industrial uses from the Ventura River project the Secretary shall charge rates with the object of returning to the United States during a fifty-year payment period (including any development period) all of the costs incurred by it in constructing, operating, and maintaining the project which the Secretary finds to be properly allocable to the purposes aforesaid and of interest, as hereinafter provided, on the portion of the construction cost which is allocated to municipal, domestic, and industrial water.

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