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PUBLIC LAW 87.168-AUG. 30, 1961

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booklet shall remain in the United States Government. This booklet shall be available for inspection as provided in this Act and for surrender to the United States Government pursuant to regulations of the Secretary. SEC. 14. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums Ap.p'op"'stionauas may be necessary to carry out the provisions oi this Act. SEC. 15. I f a provision of this Act or the application of such pro- separability. vision to any person or circumstances shall be held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those to which it is held invalid shall not be affected thereby. SEC. 16. Nothing in this Act or in regulations issued hereunder shall be construed to modify or amend the provisions of the Oil Pollution Act, 1924 (33 U.S.C. 4 3 1 ^ 3 7), or of section 89 of title 14, United ^^ Stat. 604. States Code. 63 Stat. 502. SEC. 17. This Act shall become effective upon the date of its enact- Effective date, ment or upon the date the United States becomes a party to the convention, whichever is the later date. Approved August 30, 1961.

Public Law 87-168 AN ACT To approve the amendatory repayment contract negotiated with the Huntley Project Irrigation District, Montana, to authorize its execution, and for other purposes.

August 30, 1961 [s. 1697]

Be it enacted by the Seriate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the contract i,^"^!®^ Di'*t^f*^* with the Huntley Project Irrigation District, which was negotiated Mont. src, by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to subsection (a) of section trSrtf^^'"*"* ^°'^' 1 of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187) and approved 43 USC 485f. as to form by the Department of the Interior on November 20, 1959, is hereby approved for execution, and the Secretary is authorized to execute and perform the same on behalf of the United States. SEC. 2. The 1956 reclassification of lands of the Huntley Project Irrigation District is approved. SEC. 3. There shall be deducted from the total cost of the Huntley project and from the construction charge obligation of the Huntley Project Irrigation District, contingent upon execution of the contract with the Huntley Project Irrigation District, approved in section 1 hereof, the amount of the unmatured construction charges against the two thousand five hundred and thirty acres found to be permanently unproductive by the 1956 reclassification of lands. SEC. 4. All costs and expenses incurred by the United States in negotiating and completing the contract approved under section 1 of this Act and in making the investigations in connection therewith shall not exceed the sum of $13,000, and shall, contingent upon the final confirmation and execution of that contract, be nonreimbursable and nonreturnable under the Federal reclamation laws. SEC. 5. This Act is declared to be a part of the Federal reclamation laws as those laws are defined in the Reclamation Project Act of 1939, supra. 43 USC 485a. Approved August 30, 1961.

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