Volume 73
Public Law 86–52
To provide for the sale of Columbia Basin project lands to the State of Washington, and for other purposes.
Approved June 23, 1959
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the sale of Columbia Basin project lands to the State of Washington, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That notwithstanding any provisions of sections 2(b) (iii), 2(b) (iv), and 4(b) of the Columbia Basin Project Act, as amended (16 U.S.C., ch. 12D), conformed farm units, or portions of farm units, comprising not more than six hundred and forty acres of irrigable land on the Columbia Basin project may be sold by the Secretary of the Interior and others to the State of Washington for use by the State College of Washington for agricultural research purposes, and water may be delivered from, through, or by means of the project works to or for conformed farm units comprising no more than that acreage, as nonexcess lands, whether so acquired or already held by the State, as long as they are used for those purposes. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, any lands sold to the State under this Act shall be governed by the provisions of the Columbia Basin Project Act, as amended, and
regulations of the Secretary issued pursuant thereto.
Approved June 23, 1959.