Public Law 84–277

That the proviso in the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a Federal reclamation project to furnish a water supply for the lands of the Arch Hurley Conservancy District in New Mexico”, approved August 2, 1937,

52 Stat. 211.

as amended (43 U. S. C., sec. 600a), is amended by striking out the semicolon and the word “and” at the end of clause (c) and by striking out all of clause (d) to the period. No provision with respect to the matters covered in said clause (d) which is contained in any contract entered into prior to the date of enactment of this Act shall, except as is otherwise provided by this Act, be enforced by the United States. Nothing contained in this section shall affect (1) the retention and application by the United States of any payments which have been made prior to the date of enactment of this Act in accordance with any such provision of a contract, (2) the obligation of any party to the United States with respect to any payment which is due to the United States under any such provision but not paid upon the date of enactment of this Act, and the application by the United States of any such payment in accordance with the terms of such contract, or (3) the enforcement of any such obligation by refusal to deliver water to lands covered by contractual provisions executed in accordance with said clause (d), except in those cases, if any, in which a sale or transfer consummated between December 27, 1938, and the date of enact- ment of this Act is only discovered after such date of enactment to have been made contrary to such contractual provisions or to said clause (d).

Sec. 2.

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to amend any contract, which has been entered into prior to the date of enactment of this Act, to conform with the provisions of the first section of this Act. The consent of the United States is hereby given to the recording, at the expense, of the party benefited thereby, of any such amended contract and to the simultaneous discharge of record of the original contract. The consent of the United States is likewise given to the discharge of record, at the expense of the party benefited thereby, of any contract which the Secretary of the Interior or his duly authorized agent finds is rendered nugatory by the enactment of this Act.