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PUBLIC LAW 85-393-MAY 5, 1958

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SEC. 3. The following provisions of law are hereby repealed: (1) the paragraph relating to the advertisement of mail lettings under the heading "Office of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General", contained in the Act of May 12, 1910 (36 Stat. 366;39 U.S.C.421);and (2) the first section of the Act of July 26, 1892 (27 Stat. 268), as amended (54 Stat. 228; 39 U.S.C. 422). SEC. 4. This Act shall not apply to contracts for the transportation of mail— (1) by mail messengers under the Act of March 3, 1887, as amended (24 Stat. 492, 68 Stat. 1116; 39 U.S.C. 578), (2) by highway post office service under the Highway Post Office Service Act of 1955 (70 Stat. 781; Public Law 862, Eightyfourth Congress; 39 U.S.C. 1051-1056), and (3) by steamships under section 5 of the Act of May 17, 1878 (20 Stat. 62; 39 U. 8. 0. 4 4 9). Approved May 1, 1958.

Public Law 85-393 May 5, 1958 p. 1031]

Chief Joseph Dam project. Wash.

43 USC 371 and note.

63 Stat. 1051. 7 USC 1421 note.

52 Stat. 4 1. 7 USC 1301 (b).

AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain four units of the Greater Wenatchee division, Chief Joseph project, Washington, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Seriate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of furnishing water for the irrigation of approximately ei^ht thousand seven hundred acres of land in Chelan and Douglas Counties, Washington, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain the East, Moses Coulee, Brays Landing, and Howard Flat units of the Greater Wenatchee division, Chief Joseph Dam project, in accordance with the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto). SEC. 2. Prior to initiating construction of any of the works authorized by section 1 of this Act, there shall have been organized under the laws of the State of Washington an irrigation or reclamation district, satisfactory in form and powers to the Secretary, which embraces all of the lands within the East, Moses Coulee, Brays Landing, and Howard Flat units to which it is then proposed to furnish water, and the authority to construct works contained in section 1 shall not be exercised save with respect to lands which are then in, or thereafter come into, such district: 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 total supply of such commodity for 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 Agriculture calls for an increase in production of such commodity in the interest of national security. SEC. 3. The provisions of section 2 of the Act of July 27, 1954 (68 Stat. 568, 569), shall be applicable to the Greater Wenatchee division of the Chief Joseph Dam project. The term "construction costs" used therein shall include any irrigation, operation, and maintenance costs during the development period which the Secretary finds it proper

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