Volume 70
Public Law 84–849
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to negotiate and execute a contract with the Riverside Irrigation District, Limited, of Idaho, relating to the rehabilitation of the district’s works, and other matters.
Approved July 30, 1956
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to negotiate and execute a contract with the Riverside Irrigation District, Limited, of Idaho, relating to the rehabilitation of the district’s works, and other matters.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary
Riverside Irrigation District, Ltd., of Idaho.
of the Interior is authorized to negotiate and execute on behalf of the United States a contract with the Riverside Irrigation District, Limited, of Idaho, providing (1) for the expenditure, as under the Act of October 7, 1949 (63 Stat. 724), of not more than $30,000 for rehabilitation and betterment work in connection with the removal of slides from said Riverside Canal or for the relocation and repair of said canal to reduce the hazard from slides, (2) for the repayment of the amount so expended in accordance with the provisions of the Act aforesaid, and (3) for the return to the United States of the unpaid portion of the obligation undertaken by the district in its contract with the United States dated March 1, 1926. The Secretary is further authorized to relieve the district, from payment of penalties that have accrued under the contract of March 1, 1926, aforesaid. The obligation of the United States with respect to expenditures under (1) above shall be contingent upon the appropriation of funds to carry out the Act of October 7, 1949, aforesaid, and the allotment therefrom of amounts adequate to carry out this Act.
Approved July 30, 1956.