Public Law 85–283

That, subject to the provisions of section 2 of this Act, the contract with the Casper-Alcova Irrigation District, Kendrick project, Wyoming, approved by the District Board of Commissioners on February 26, 1957, which has been negotiated by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to subsection (a) of section 7 of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1192; 43 U. S. C. 485f) is hereby approved, and the Secretary is hereby authorized to execute said contract on behalf of the United States.

Sec. 2.

The limitations on acreage and restrictions on delivery of water to excess lands under the Federal reclamation laws shall apply to the lands of the Kendrick project, Wyoming, except that four hundred and eighty irrigable acres shall, in this instance, be substituted for one hundred and sixty irrigable acres. The provisions of this section 2 are intended to meet the special conditions existing on the Kendrick project, Wyoming, and shall not be considered as altering the general policy of the United States with respect to the excess-land provisions of the Federal reclamation laws.

Sec. 3.

The part of the cost of operation and maintenance of Seminoe Dam and Reservoir and Alcova Dam and Reservoir of the Kendrick project, Wyoming, incurred by the United States for the calendar year 1958, which is properly allocable for payment by project irrigation water users, is hereby assigned to be repaid from Kendrick project power revenues.