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PUBLIC LAW 85-801-AUG. 28, 1958

[72 S T A T.

Public Law 85-801 August 28. 1958 [H. R. 9239]

^^ ACT rj-Q provide for the construction of an irrigation distribution system and drainage worljs for restricted Indian lands within the Coachella Valley County Water District in Riverside County, California, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and Flouse of Representatives of the rfi^*i°*rf^'^**'^ ^"" ^^^^^^ States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of ^ig^io^n. the Act of August 25, 1950 (64 Stat. 470), is amended to read as follows: " (a) The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to— " (1) designate the trust or restricted Indian lands on the Cabazon, Augustine, and Torres-Martinez Indian Reservations which may be irrigated from distribution facilities administered by the Coachella Valley County Water District in Riverside County, California; "(2) construct an irrigation distribution system and drainage w'orks within improvement district numbered 1 of the Coachella Valley County Water District that connect with the distribution system and drainage works now administered by Coachella Valley County Water District and that will irrigate and drain the Indian lands designated therein pursuant to this section: Provided, That such irrigation and distribution system and drainage works shall be constructed on the Torres-Martinez Indian Reservation only upon the request of the Indian owners of the lands to be irrigated thereby and a determination by the Secretary of the Interior that the construction of the irrigation distribution system and drainage works is economically feasible; "(3) contract with the Coachella Valley County Water District, prior to the construction of the irrigation distribution system and drainage works authorized by this section, for engineering and supervision services in connection with such construction, and for the care, operation, and maintenance thereof after construction. Such contract shall provide, among other things, that— "(i) the irrigation distribution system and drainage works authorized to be constructed by this section, or any major part thereof, when completed and ready for use as determined by the Secretary, shall be turned over to the district for care, operation, and maintenance and the district shall assume the care, operation, and maintenance thereof upon sixty days written request therefor made by the Secretary; "(ii) water shall be delivered to the lands within improvement district numbered 1 designated pursuant to this section, through the irrigation distribution system authorized to be constructed, under the same rules and regulations, to the same extent, and for the same charges as water is delivered by the district to other lands similarly located within the district. As long as said Indian lands for which an irrigation distribution system is constructed pursuant to this section remain in a trust or restricted status the Secretary shall guarantee payment to the district for all such charges for the delivery of water, including standby charges, as well as payment of an amount of money during each year equal to the amount which would be levied by or on behalf of the district in the form of taxes on said lands if said lands were on the assessment rolls of Riverside County;

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