Volume 50
Public Law 75–619
To provide for studies and plans for the development of a hydroelectric power project at Cabinet Gorge, on the Clark Fork of the Columbia River, for irrigation pumping or other uses, and for other purposes.
Approved August 14, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for studies and plans for the development of a hydroelectric power project at Cabinet Gorge, on the Clark Fork of the Columbia River, for irrigation pumping or other uses, 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 the Interior is hereby authorized: (a) To conduct surveys and investigations in order to determine the feasibility and economic usefulness of the development of a hydroelectric power project at the Cabinet Gorge site on the Clark Fork of the Columbia River (near the Montana-Idaho boundary line) for irrigation pumping or other uses; and (b), if such development is determined to be feasible and economically useful, to prepare cost estimates and designs for the construction of a dam at such site and such additional or incidental facilities as are necessary to carry out such development.
Sec. 2.
There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $25,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Approved, August 14, 1937.