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Public Law 83–573
To approve an amendatory repayment contract negotiated with the North Unit irrigation district, to authorize construction of Haystack Reservoir on the Deschutes Federal reclamation project, and for other purposes.
Approved August 10, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To approve an amendatory repayment contract negotiated with the North Unit irrigation district, to authorize construction of Haystack Reservoir on the Deschutes Federal reclamation project, 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 contract with the North Unit irrigation district in form substantially similar to that approved by the district directors on July 31, 1953, which has been negotiated by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to section 7, subsection (a), of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187, 1192; 43 U. S. C., 1946 edition, sec. 485), is approved and the Secretary
of the Interior is authorized to execute it on behalf of the United States.
Sec. 2.
The Secretary is authorized to construct the Haystack Dam
Haystack Dam, etc.
Construction.
and equalizing reservoir and related works as a feature of the Deschutes Federal reclamation project at a cost not in excess of an amount which, together with other project costs reimbursable and returnable to the United States pursuant to the terms and provisions of the contract approved by section 1 of this Act, does not exceed the maximum construction charge obligation of the North Unit irrigation district.
Approved August 10, 1954.