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 PUBLIC LAW 88-584-SEPT. 7, 1964

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Water users contracts. Amendment authority.

Reports to President and Congress.

Appropriation.

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(b) Costs of means and measures to prevent loss of and damage to fish and wildlife resources shall be considered as project costs and allocated as may be appropriate among other division functions. SEC. 4. (a) The Secretary is authorized to amend contracts heretofore made under the Acts of September 30, 1950 (64 Stat. 1083), and of August 31, 1954 ([68 Stat. 1026), whereby the water users assumed an obligation for winter power replacement based on the winter water savings program at the Minidoka powerplant to relieve the contractors ratably by one-third of that obligation, and to make new contracts under these Acts on a like basis. To the extent such annual obligations are reduced, the cost thereof shall be included in the cost to be absorbed by the power operations of the Federal power system in Idaho. (b) The actual construction of the facilities herein authorized shall not be undertaken until at least 80 per centum of the conservation capacity in Fremont Reservoir is under subscription, nor until negotiations have been undertaken in accordance with the provisions of (a) of this section. (c) No construction shall be undertaken on facilities of the Lower Teton division which are required solely to provide a full water supply to lands in the Rexburg Bench area until the Secretary has submitted his report and finding of feasibility on this phase of the division to the President and to the Congress. SEC. 5. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the construction of the Lower Teton division of the Teton Basin Federal reclamation project, the sum of $52,000,000, plus or minus such amounts, if any, as may be justified by reason of ordinary fluctuations in construction costs as indicated by engineering cost indexes applicable to the types of construction involved therein, and, in addition thereto, such sums as may be required to operate and maintain said division. Approved September 7, 1964.

Public Law 88-584 September 7, 1964

[^- ^^^^ Guam. Technical agricultural services.

AN ACT To establish Federal agricultural services to Guam, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to establish and maintain an agricultural program in Guam which will include such programs administered by the United States Department of Agriculture, hereinafter referred to as "Department", as are determined by the Secretary will promote the welfare of that island. This authority may be exercised without regard to section 25 fb) of the Organic Act of Guam (64 Stat. 390; 48 U.S.C. 1421c(b)), or any other provision of law under which Guam may have been excluded from such programs. The Secretary is authorized to provide for such modification of any such programs extended to Guam as he deems necessary in order to adapt it to the needs of Guam. The program authorized by this section shall be developed in cooperation with the territorial government of Guam and shall be covered by a memorandum of understanding agreed to by the territorial government and the Department. The Secretary may also utilize the agencies, facilities, and employees of the Department, and may cooperate with other public agencies and with private organizations and individuals in Guam and elsewhere: Provided, That the number of employees of the United States Department of Agriculture stationed on Guam to carry out the purposes of this Act shall not exceed three at any one time.

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