Volume 73 · 555
Public Law 86–271
To amend the Act authorizing the Crooked River Federal reclamation project, Oregon, in order to increase the capacity of certain project features for future irrigation of additional lands.
Approved September 14, 1959
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Act authorizing the Crooked River Federal reclamation project, Oregon, in order to increase the capacity of certain project features for future irrigation of additional lands.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 1 of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize construction by the Secretary of the Interior of the Crooked River Federal reclamation project, Oregon,” approved August 6, 1956 (70 Stat. 1058), is amended by adding to that section the following: “The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to construct extra capacity in the canal below said reservoir and pumping plants located on the canal for the future irrigation of approximately three thousand acres of land, in addition to the presently proposed development, and to recognize the cost of providing such extra capacity as a deferred obligation to be paid under arrangements to be made at such time as the additional area may be brought into the project.”
Sec. 2.
There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums,
Appropriation.
in addition to the sum or $6,339,000 authorized to be appropriated for the Crooked River Federal reclamation project in section 5 of the Act of August 6, 1956 (70 Stat. 1058), as may be required to carry
out the purposes of this Act.
Approved September 14, 1959.