Volume 68
Public Law 83–289
To provide that certain costs and expenses incurred in connection with certain repayment contracts with irrigation districts approved by the Acts of Congress of May 6, 1949 (63 Stat. 62), October 27, 1949 (63 Stat. 941), and June 23, 1952 (66 Stat. 151, 153), shall be nonreimbursable.
Approved January 30, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide that certain costs and expenses incurred in connection with certain repayment contracts with irrigation districts approved by the Acts of Congress of May 6, 1949 (63 Stat. 62), October 27, 1949 (63 Stat. 941), and June 23, 1952 (66 Stat. 151, 153), shall be nonreimbursable.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That all costs and expenses, not in excess of a total of $100,000, incurred by the United States in negotiating and completing contracts with the Deaver, Prosser, and Belle Fourche irrigation districts approved by the Act of Congress of October 27, 1949 (63 Stat. 941), and with the Willwood, Bitterroot, Kittitas, and Okanogan irrigation districts approved by the Act of Congress of May 6, 1949 ( 63 Stat. 62), and with the French-town irrigation district approved by the Act of Congress of June 23, 1952 (66 Stat. 151, 153) in making the investigation in connection therewith, and in future determinations under said contracts with respect to the productivity of temporarily unproductive lands shall be, to the extent that such costs and expenses have not been included in the restated repayment obligations of the irrigation districts involved, nonreimbursable and nonreturnable under the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory
thereof or supplementary thereto).
Approved January 30, 1954.