Volume 71
Public Law 85–38
To amend the act entitled “An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to enlarge existing water supply facilities for the San Diego, Calif., area in order to insure the existence of an adequate water supply for naval installations and defense production plants in such area”, approved October 11, 1951.
Approved May 31, 1957
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the act entitled “An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to enlarge existing water supply facilities for the San Diego, Calif., area in order to insure the existence of an adequate water supply for naval installations and defense production plants in such area”, approved October 11, 1951.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to enlarge existing water-supply facilities for the San Diego, California area in order to insure the existence of an adequate water supply for naval installations and defense production plants in such area ”, approved October 11, 1951, is amended by adding the following new section:
65 Stat. 404.
“Sec. 9.
As soon as practicable after completion of construction of the work authorized by the first section of this Act, the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of the Interior shall make such interdepartmental and other arrangements and enter into such contracts and amendments to existing contracts as they may find necessary or desirable for the purposes of effecting (1) the transfer to the Secretary of the Interior on behalf of the United States of jurisdiction over the aqueduct, and of the administration of the contract numbered NOy–13300 of October 17, 1945, and of all contracts amendatory thereof or supplementary or collateral thereto; and (2) the substitution and designation of an appropriate official of the Department of the Interior for the Secretary of the Navy and for the Contracting Officer therein.”
Approved May 31, 1957.