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Volume 71 · 49

Public Law 85–47

To amend the Small Reclamation Projects Act of 1956.

Approved June 5, 1957

Statutory text

AN ACT

To amend the Small Reclamation Projects Act of 1956.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the Small Reclamation Projects Act of 1956 (70 Stat. 1044) is amended as follows:

(a)

Amend subsection (c) of section 4 to read:

“(c)

At such time as a project is found by the Secretary and the

Project proposal.

Transmittal to Congress.

Governor of the State in which it is located (or an appropriate State agency designated by him) to lie financially feasible, is determined by the Secretary to constitute a reasonable risk under the provisions of this Act, and is approved by the Secretary, such findings and approval shall be transmitted to the Congress. The Secretary, at the tune of submitting the project proposal to Congress or at the time of his determination that the requested project constitutes a reasonable risk under the provisions of this Act, may reserve from use or disposition inimical to the project any lands and interests in land owned by the United States which are within his administrative jurisdiction and subject to disposition by him and which are required for use by the project. Any such reservation shall expire at the end of two years unless the contract provided for in section 5 of this Act shall have been executed.”

(b)

Add a new subsection (d) to section 4 (the present subsection (d) being relettered (e)) reading as follows:

“(d)

No appropriation shall be made for financial participation

Appropriation.

in any such, project prior to sixty calendar days (which sixty days, however, shall not include days on which either the House of Representatives or the Senate is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three calendar days tb a day certain) from the date on which the Secretary’s findings and approval are submitted to the Congress and then only if, within said sixty days, neither the House nor the Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee disapproves the project proposal by committee resolution. The provisions of this

Nonapplicability.

subsection (d) shall not be applicable to proposals made under section G of this Act.”

(c)

Amend the introductory clause of section 5 to read:

“Sec. 5.

Upon approval of any project proposal by the Secretary under the provisions of section 4 of this Act, he may negotiate a contract which shall set out, among other things—”.

Approved June 5, 1957.

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