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PUBLIC LAW 85-123-AUG. 13, 1957

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Public Law 85-123 August 13, 1957 [H. R. 3071]

AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into and to execute amendatory contract with the Northport Irrigation District, Nebraska.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to enter into a contract with the Northport Irrigation District, Nebraska, amendatory of the contract between said district and the United States dated August 19, 1948, which amendatory contract shall provide, among other things, for (i) the relinquishment by the district of any interest that it may have in all present and potential power revenues from or related to the North Platte Federal reclamation project, (ii) application by the United States of the consideration for said relinquishment, namely $479,602, in amounts of not more than $8,000 per annum toward payment of the annual cost of carrying the district's water through the Farmers' Irrigation District canal, and (iii) retention by the United States of that portion of miscellaneous project revenues which the Secretary determines are properly creditable to the district, which revenues shall be covered into the special deposit account established by section 4 of the Act of July 17, 1952 (66 Stat. 754, 755), and expended for the purposes and in the manner therein provided. North Platte projSEC. 2. Nothing coiitaiiied in this Act shall be construed to diminisli or enlarge the adjusted construction charge obligations of the Gering and Fort Laramie, the Goshen, and the Pathfinder Irrigation Districts, or any other party as set forth in the contracts between the United States and said districts and parties which were approved by the Act of July 17, 1952, or which have been or shall be entered into pursuant to the authority contained in said Act or to alter the basis upon which said adjusted construction charge obligations have been or shall be computed. The share of each participant in the cost of operating and maintaining the reserved works of the North Platte ' '.>i; /*'-'* project shall be computed by the Secretary on the basis of the project acreages in the Fort Laramie and Interstate divisions as set forth in the aforementioned district contracts and sixteen thousand one hundred and seventy acres in the Northport division, but said basis of computation shall not entitle the Northport Irrigation District to any larger amount of credit from miscellaneous project revenues than is consistent with the amounts apportioned to the other districts and parties in accordance with the aforesaid contracts.

Northport Irrigation District, Nebr. Contracts.

Repeal.

Payment to Farmers' I r r i g a t i o n District.

SEC. 3. The heading "Northport Division" in section 26 of the Act of May 25, 1926 (44 Stat. 636, 642) and paragraph (a) thereunder are hereby repealed, but this repeal shall not affect the obligation of the Northport Irrigation District as expressed in its contract with the United States dated August 19, 1948. SEC. 4. The paragraph under the heading "Appropriation of Certain Payments" in that portion of chapter VII, title I, of the Act of September 6, 1950, which pertains to the Bureau of Eeclamation (64 Stat. 595,689) is hereby amended to read as follows: "The Secretary may, without further appropriation, pay from the reclamation fund to the Farmers' Irrigation District, Nebraska, such sums, but not more than $8,000 per annum, as are required for water carriage in accordance with contracts between the United States and the Northport Irrigation District authorized by and entered into pursuant to law. The authority contained in this paragraph shall expire when the total of svich payments shall be $479,602."

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