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PUBLIC LAW 86-307-SEPT. 21, 1959

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after June 30, 1945, on which such United States Commissioner renders service in such capacity", and (2) by striking out in the second sentence thereof "for more than three hundred and thirteen days in any one year'- and inserting in lieu thereof "for more than three hundred and thirteen days in any one year prior to July 1, 1945, or for more than two hundred and sixty days in any one year after June 30, 1945". SEC. 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, benefits ]jayable by reason of the amendments made by the first section of this Act shall be paid from the civil service retirement and disability fund. Approvea September 21, 1959.

Public Law 86-307 September 2 I, 1959 [H. R. 616]

stillhouse H o l low Dam, T e x. 68 Stat. 1259.

AN ACT

To designate the dam across the Lampasas River in Texas as Stillhouse Hollow Dam. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the dam across the Lampasas River in Bell County, Texas, authorized to be constructed by section 11 of the Flood Control Act of 1954, is hereby designated as Stillhouse Hollow Dam. Any law, regulation, map, document, record, or other paper of the United States in which such dam is referred to shall be held to refer to such dam by the name of Stillhouse Hollow Dam. Approved September 21, 1959. Public Law 86-308

September 21, 1959 [H. R. 1778]

53 Stat. 1198. 43 USC 485b note. Construction charges. D e f e r m e n t of payments.

AN ACT To amend section 17(b) of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 17, subsection (b), of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939, as amended, is hereby further amended to read as follows: "The Secretary is hereby authorized, subject to the provisions of this subsection, to defer the time for the payment of such part of any installments of construction charges under any repayment contract or other form of obligation as he deems necessary to adjust such installments to amounts within the probable ability of the water users to pay. Any such deferment shall be effected only after findings by the Secretary that the installments under consideration probably cannot be paid on their due date without undue burden on the water users, considering the various factors which in the Secretary's judgment bear on the ability of the water users so to pay. "The Secretary may effect the deferments hereunder subject to such conditions and provisions relating to the operation and maintenance of the project involved as he deems to be in the interest of the United States. If, however, any deferments would affect installments to accrue more than twelve months after the action of deferment, they shall be effected only by a formal supplemental contract. Such a contract shall provide by its terms that, it being only an interim solution of the repayment problems dealt with therein, its terms are not, in them-

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