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[70 Stat. 480]
PUBLIC LAW 000—MMMM. DD, 1956
[70 Stat. 480]

480 46 Stat. 918. 33use426 465

PUBLIC LAW 641-JULY 2, 1956

[TO S T A T,

g^^^s, approvcd July 3, 1930, as amended^ and supplemented), of proj7 -j-^--— _ —^ _,^ , j^^ „,, „^ r * " j S69a,607a; 48 USC ects prioF to authorization for construction, to remain available until "^'expended, $9,322,000. 33 USC 426,465,

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CONSTRUCTION, GENERAL

For the prosecution of river and harbor, flood control, shore protection, and related projects authorized by law; detailed studies, and plans and specifications, of projects (including those for development with participation or under consideration for participation by States, local governments, or private groups) authorized or made eligible for selection by law (but such studies shall not constitute a commitment of the Government to construction); and not to exceed $1,400,000 for transfer to the Secretary of the Interior for conservation of fish and wildlife as authorized by law; to remain available until expended, $455,949,500, of which $300,000 shall be for the project "Mississippi Payment to Indi- River-Gulf Outlet, Louisiana": Provided, That funds appropriated ans. herein may at the discretion and under the direction of the Chief of Engineers be used in payment to the accounts of the Confederated Tribes of the Yakima Reservation; the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation; the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation; or other recognized Indian tribes, and those individual Indians not enrolled in any recognized tribe, but who through domicile at or in the immediate vicinity of the reservoir and through custom and usage are found to have an equitable interest in the fishery, all of whose fishing rights and interests will be impaired by the Government incident to the construction, operation, or maintenance of The Dalles Dam, Columbia River, Washington and Oregon, and must be subordinated thereto by agreement or litigation: Provided further, Qrand Forks. That in view of the physical conditions that developed during construction which increased the cost of land acquisition beyond the legal authority of the city of Grand Forks to provide, the Chief of Engineers is authorized to expend, for land acquisition, not to exceed the sum of $100,000 of the amount herein appropriated for the Grand Forks unit L e w i s and Clark of the Red River of the North project: Provided further, That in lieu Irrigation District. of protecting the Lewis and Clark Irrigation District, the sum of $1,935,000 of the funds herein or hereafter appropriated for the Garrison Dam and Reservoir project on the Missouri River shall be available for the purchase of lands and improvements in the Lewis and Clark Irrigation District, and the sum of $1,196,000 shall be available for the relocation of highways and utilities therein. The substitution of land acquisition for the protection shall be made and the Secretary of the Army shall acquire such land and improvements if all of the landowners, on or before June 30, 1957, have offered to sell their property on terms agreeable to said landpwners, and within the amount provided Buforjd-Trantwj herein for such land acquisition: Provided further, That in lieu of ^»o»j«., District. Irrigation ni=-4^. pj.^^gg^^j^g ^j^g -gj^g^ Bottom of the Buford-Trenton Irrigation District, the sum of $1,341,891 of the funds herein or hereafter appropriated for the Garrison Dam and Reservoir project on the Missouri River shall be available for the purchase of lands and improvements in and contiguous to the Buford-Trenton Irrigation District, and not to exceed $2,000,000 shall be available to the Corps of Engineers for protection of the intake structure of the pumping plant in Zero Bottom and for the construction of bank protection to prevent erosion in the Missouri River adjacent to the Buford-Trenton irrigation project. The substitution of land acquisition for protection shall be made and the Secretary of the Army shall acquire such land and improvements if all of the landowners, except the heirs of Louis Morin, Junior, on or before June 30, 1957, have offered to sell their property on the terms agreeable