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PUBLIC LAW 85-112-JULY 24, 1957

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there is in effect an election by it not to have the amendments made by such section apply to it. Any such election shall be in effect for a fiscal year only if notice of the election has been filed with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare at some time prior to May 16 of the preceding fiscal year, except that any such election shall be in effect for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1957, if notice of the election is filed with the Secretary prior to A u ^ s t 1, 1957. An election by a State under this subsection shall continue in effect until the close of any fiscal year designated in a notice of termination of such election which is filed with the Secretary of Health, Education, and AVelfare prior to May 16 of such year. Elections hereunder shall be made, and notices thereof and notices of termination shall be filed, on such form or forms and in such manner as the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare may prescribe." Approved July 17, 1957. Public Law 85-111 AN ACT To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act, as amended.

, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 508 of the Federal Crop Insurance Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1508), is amended by adding a new subsection (f) to read as follows: "(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, the corporation is hereby authorized, under such terms and conditions as it deems consistent with sound reinsurance principles, to provide reinsurance on any crop or plantation insurance provided in Puerto Rico by a duly authorized agency of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico: Provided, That, no application for reinsurance authorized herein shall be approved, unless the corporation shall have determined that the reinsurance deemed necessary is not available from recognized private sources at reasonable cost." Approved July 23, 1957.

July 23, 1957 [H. R. 632]

Crop r e insurance. 52 Stat. 74.

Public Law 85-112 AN ACT To suspend and to modify the application of the excess land provisions of the Federal reclamation laws to lands in the East Bench unit of the Missouri River Basin project.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the er United States of America in Congress assembled, Tlmt, except as pro- B aMissouri t R iev c h sin, Eas B n vided in section 2 of this Act, the excess land provisions of the Federal unit reclamation laws shall not apply to lands in the Beaverhead Valley, ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ Montana, lying below the proposed Clark Canyon Dam of the East Bench unit of the Missouri River Basin project, authorized in section 9(a) of Public Law 534, Seventy-eighth Congress, approved December 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 887), that are irrigated under existing State water rights, whether the waters used for their irrigation are passed through, regulated by, or stored in the Clark Canyon Reservoir by the United States. SEC. 2. Any lands of the East Bench unit which are held in private ownership by a person whose holdings of bench lands alone or of bench and valley lands combined exceed the equivalent of one hundred and

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