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Public Law 87–477

To approve the revised June 1957 reclassification of land of the Fort Shaw division of the Sun River project, Montana, and to authorize the modification of the repayment contract with Fort Shaw Irrigation District.

Approved June 8, 1962

Statutory text

AN ACT

To approve the revised June 1957 reclassification of land of the Fort Shaw division of the Sun River project, Montana, and to authorize the modification of the repayment contract with Fort Shaw Irrigation District.

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

That the June 1957

Sun River project, Mont.

reclassification of land of the Fort Shaw division of the Sun River project, Montana, as revised in September 1959, is approved.

Sec. 2.

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, pursuant to section 8(i) of the Act of August 4, 1939 (53 Stat. 1187), to modify the

43 USC 485g.

contractual obligation of the Fort Shaw Irrigation District by deducting from such obligation the amount of the unmatured construction charges as of the date of this Act against five hundred thirty-one and seventy-seven one-hundredths acres classified in a paying class under the Act of May 25, 1926 (44 Stat. 636), and found to be permanently unproductive; and the contractual obligation of the Fort Shaw Irrigation District shall, by reason of a finding that thirty-four and seventy-four one-hundredths acres of land, previously classed as permanently unproductive, possess sufficient productivity to be placed in a paying class, be increased in the sum of $1, 193.67.

Approved June 8, 1962.

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