Volume 60 · 718
Public Law 79–706
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct the Lewiston Orchards project, Idaho, in accordance with the Federal reclamation laws.
Approved July 31, 1946
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct the Lewiston Orchards project, Idaho, in accordance with the Federal reclamation laws.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That for the purposes
Lewiston Orchards project, Idaho.
of irrigating lands and for purposes incidental thereto, there is hereby authorized to be constructed, operated, and maintained the Lewiston Orchards project, Idaho, substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the regional director of the Bureau of Reclamation, region numbered I, in his report dated December 3, 1945, as concurred in by the Commissioner of Reclamation and the Secretary
Reimbursable costs.
of the Interior: Provided, That, notwithstanding any recommendations to the contrary contained in said report, all costs of said project allocated to irrigation and all costs of said project allocated to municipal water supply shall be reimbursable under the Federal reclamation laws but within repayment periods to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior and not to exceed fifty years.
Sec. 2.
There are hereby authorized to be appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be required for the purposes of this Act.
Approved July 31, 1946.