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PUBLIC LAW 85-152-AUG. 16, 1957

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to irriojation and assigned to be paid by the contracting organization may provide for repaj-ment of the portion of the construction cost of the project assigned to any project contract unit or, if the contract unit be divided into two or more irrigation blocks, to any such block over the period specified in said section 9, subsection (d), or as near thereto as is consistent with the adoption and operation of a variable payment formula which, being based on full repayment within said period under normal conditions, permits variance in the required annual payments in the light of economic factors pertinent to the ability of the irrigators to pay: Provided, That for a period of ten years from the date of enactment of this Act, no water from the project shall be delivered to any water user for the production on newly irrigated lands of any basic agricultural commodity, as defined in the Agricultural Act of 1949, or any amendment thereof, if the 1

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total supply oi such commodity tor the marketing year in which the bulk of the crop would normally be marketed is in excess of the normal supply as defined in section 301(b) (10) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, unless the Secretary of Agri- f^jfc^'iaVi. culture calls for an increase in production of such commodity in the interest of national security. (e) Contracts relating to municipal, domestic, and industrial water supply may be entered into without regard to the last sentence of section 9, subsection (c), of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939, and "^^^^^ 37inote. such contracts may recognize the relative priorities of domestic, municipal, industrial, and irrigational uses. (f) Upon request of a contracting organization, the Secretary may M'^I^'^* Tan°ce at any time and shall, after payment of the reimbursable costs of the etc. project has been completed, transfer to the requesting organization, or to another organization designated by it and satisfactory to him, the care, operation, and maintenance of any project works which serve the requesting organization and do not serve any other contracting organization. The care, operation, and maintenance of project works which serve two or more contracting organizations may or shall, as the case may be, be transferred in like circumstances to an organization satisfactory to all of said organizations and to the Secretary. Any transfer made pursuant to the authority of this section shall be upon terms and conditions satisfactory to the Secretary, and the works transferred shall be operated and maintained without further expense to the United States. If the transferred works serve a flood control or fish and wildlife function, they shall be operated and maintained in accordance with regulations with respect thereto prescribed by the Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of the Interior, respectively, and upon failure so to operate or maintain them they shall, upon demand, be returned immediately to the Secretary of the Interior. SEC. 3. The Secretary is authorized to construct minimum basic rec- Recreational fareational facilities at the Twin Buttes Reservoir and to operate and maintain or arrange for the operation and maintenance of the same. The costs of constructing, operating, and maintaining such facilities, and like costs of the San Angelo project allocated to flood control and to the preservation and propagation of fish and wildlife shall, except as is otherwise provided in this Act, be nonreimbursable and nonreturnable under the reclamation laws. The Secretary shall, upon conclusion of a suitable agreement with a qualified agency and subject to such conditions as may be set forth in the repayment contracts, permit said agency to construct, operate, and maintain additional public recreational facilities and parks in connection with the project to the extent determined by the Secretary to be consistent with its primary purposes and subject to terms and conditions satisfactory to him.

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