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PUBLIC LAW 90-503-SEPT. 21, 1968

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(B) inserting "except the Supply Corps and the Civil Engineer Corps" after "any staff corps of the Navy". (2) Subsection (b) is redesignated as subsection " (c) " and is amended by inserting "or (b) " after "subsection (a) ". (3) Subsection (c) is redesignated as subsection " (d) " and is amended by striking out " (b) " and inserting " (c) " in place thereof. (4) Subsection (d) is redesignated as subsection " (e) ". (5) Subsection (e) is redesignated as subsection " (f) " and is amended by striking out " (d) " and inserting " (e) " in place thereof. (6) A new subsection (a) is inserted reading as follows: " (a) For the purpose of the preceding sections of this chapter, the total commissioned service of each officer on the active list of the Navy in the Supply Corps or the Civil Engineer Corps who was initially appointed as a Eegular or as a Reserve in the grade of ensign in the line or any staff corps or in the grade of lieutenant (junior grade) in the Civil Engineer Corps and who has served continuously on active duty since that appointment shall be computed from June 30, of the fiscal year in which he accepted that appointment." SEC*. 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an officer of the Navy in the Supply Corps or the Civil Engineer Corps who is not selected for promotion to a higher grade after the enactment of this Act may not be retired under chapter 573 of title 10, United States Code, earlier than he would have been retired had this Act not been ^ lo use 637i6410.

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enacted. Approved September 20, 1968. Public Law 90-503 AN ACT

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Mountain Park reclamation project, Oklahoma, and for other purposes.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Mountain United States of America in Congress assembled. That the Secretary _^__.^^ Park reclamation projof the Interior is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain the ec^rokra Mountain P a r k reclamation project, Oklahoma, under the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902; 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto) for the principal purposes of ^3 USC 371. storing, regulating, and furnishing water for municipal, domestic, and industrial uses, conserving and developing fish and wildlife resources, providing outdoor recreation opportunities, and controlling floods. The principal features of the project shall consist of a dam and reservoir on Otter Creek, a diversion dam on Elk Creek, a canal from the diversion dam to a storage reservoir on Otter Creek, aqueducts from the storage reservoir to the cities of Altus and Snyder, Oklahoma, a wildlife management area, and basic public outdoor recreation facilities. Construction of the project may be undertaken in such units or stages as in the determination of the Secretary will best serve project requirements and meet water needs. SEC. 2. (a) Costs of the project, or any unit or stage thereof, alio- g^j^^^^'"^"* cated to municipal water supply, shall be repayable, with interest, by the municipal water users over a period of not more than fifty years from the date that water is first delivered for that purpose, pursuant to contracts with municipal corporations or other organizations, as defined in section 2(g) of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187), Such contracts shall be precedent to the commencement of ^^ ^^^ '*^^^ construction of any unit or stage of the project. The contracting organization shall be responsible for the disposal and sale of water surplus

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