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PUBLIC LAW 90-136-NOV. 14, 1967

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TITLE III—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 47 f^ A Ina^' rc " 47 USC 609.

SEC. 301. This Act does not modify in any manner the provisions "^ ^^^ Comnuinications Act of 1934, as amended. SEC. 302. There are anthorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Defense such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisioiis of this Act. Approved November 14, 1967. '-

Public Law 90-136 November 14, 1967

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To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Nebraska Mirt-State diA'ision, Missouri River Basin project, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United iStaten of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to construct, operate, and maintain in accordance with the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 43use 391 note. 1902 (32 Stat. 388), and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto) the Nebraska Mid-State division, Missouri River Basin project, Nebraska, for the principal purposes of furnishing a surface irrigation water supply for approximately one hundred and forty thousand acres of land, aiding in the replenishment of the ground water supply of the area for domestic and agricultural use, controlling floods, conserving and developing fish and wildlife, enhancing recreation opportunities, and producing hydroelectric power. The principal works of the project shall consist of a diversion dam on the Platte River, a main supply canal, an interconnected reservoir system, hydroelectric power facilities, wasteways, pumps, drains, canals, laterals, distribution facilities, and related works. SEC. 2. The Nebraska Mid-State division shall be integrated, physically and financially, with the other Federal works in the Missouri River Basin constructed or authorized to be constructed under the comprehensive plans approved by section 9 of the Act of December 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 891), as amended and supplemented, and shall be a division of the Missouri River Basin project therein approved and authorized. SEC. 3, The interest rate used for computing interest during construction and interest (m the unpaid balance of the capital costs allocated to interest-bearing features of the Nebraska Mid-State division shall be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury as of the beginning of the fiscal year in which construction is initiated, on the basis of the computed average interest rate payable by the Treasury upon its outstanding marketable public obligations, which are neither due nor callable for redemption for fifteen years from date of issue. SEC. 4. For a period of ten years from the date of enactment of this Act, no water from the project authorized by this Act 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 7^us*c*i4*2f' 1949, or any amendment thereof, if the total supply of such commodity note. 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 52 Stat. 41. 301(b) (10) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, 7 USC 1301. unless the Secretary of Agriculture calls for an increase in production of such commodity in the interest of national security. Missouri River Basin project.

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