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PUBLIC LAW 395-JAN. 28, 1956

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"'Land Classification Report, Unit One, Yuma Mesa Division, Gila Project, Arizona, May 1949", as amended, made pursuant to subsection (d) of section 4 of the Act of December 5, 1924 (4fS Stat. 702, 43 U. S. G. 462); (2) the unpaid operation and maintenance charges which accrued prior to June 30, 1954, totaling $297,167.45, as allocated by the Secretary to said lands situate within the district; and (0) the costs of the works authorized in section 2 hereof, not exceeding $1,350,000, and further providing for the release, on such terms and conditions as the Secretary finds appropriate, of the existing predevelopment contracts and mortgages held by the United States on the lands situate within the district which were predeveloped by the United States, and for the repayment to the United States by the lands benefited by said predevelopment of the amounts provided for in said mortgages in the same period within which the costs for the construction of the irrigation facilities are to be repaid. Surveys, conSEC. 2. The Secretary is authorized on such terms and conditions struction, e t c. as he deems appropriate to make drainage surveys and investigations of the lands within the district, to construct drainage facilities and works therefor, to install additional pump capacity in the Yuma Mesa Pump Plant of not to exceed two hundred and seventy-five cubic feet per second, to construct such buildings determined by him to be appropriate in connection with the operation and maintenance of the lands situate within the district, and to provide in the contract referred to in section 1 hereof for the performance of such work. E x c e s s expendSEC. 3. Expenditures by the United States in excess of the amounts itures by U. S. to be repaid by the district as provided in section 1 hereof, which have been allocated by the Secretary (a) to acreage eliminated from 43 USC 613- the Gila project pursuant to the Act of July 30, 1947 (61 Stat. 628), 613e. (b) to dust control on the Yuma Mesa Division, Gila project, (c) to that portion of predevelopment costs not heretofore covered by contracts and mortgages covering predevelopment charges on lands situate within the district, and (d) other costs allocated by the Secretary to the lands situate within the district not otherwise covered by the repayment obligation in section 1 hereof to be assumed by the district or not otherwise allocated by the Secretary to other contracting entities and which are not assumed or are not to be assumed by them, shall be nonreimbursable: Provided,, That all revenues from the disposal of public lands within the district (which disposition is hereby authorized on terms and conditions satisfactory to the Secretary) or from special water service contracts other than those which the Secretary determines are allocable to operation and maintenance costs of the district shall be retained by the United States. Termination. SEC. 4. The authority granted in section 1 of this Act to execute said contract shall terminate on December 31, 1957. SEC. 5. This Act is declared to be a part of the Federal reclamation laws as they are defined in the Eeclamation Project Act of 1939 43 USC 485a. (53 Stat. 1187). Approved January 28, 1956.

Public Law 395 January 28, 1956 [S. 2170]

Agricultural conunodities, s a l e.

C H A P T E R 14

AN ACT To permit sale of Comniodity Credit Corporation stocks of basic and storable nonbasic agricultural commodities without restriction where similar commodities are exported in raw or processed form.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 407