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PUBLIC LAW 87-000—MMMM. DD, 1962
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PUBLIC LAW 87-630-SEPT. 5, 1962

such expenditures, and carry out the responsibilities of the Secretary under the provisions of this Act. SEC. 10. When the distribution of tribal assets in accordance with the provisions of this Act has been completed, the Secretary of the Interior shall publish in the Federal Kegister a proclamation declaring that the Federal trust relationship to such tribe and its members has terminated. Thereafter, the tribe and its members shall not be entitled to any of the special services performed by the United States for Indians or Indian tribes because or their Indian status, all statutes of the United States that affect Indians or Indian tribes because of their Indian status shall be inapplicable to them, and the laws of the several States shall apply to them in the same manner they apply to other persons or citizens within their jurisdiction. Nothing in this Act, however, shall affect the status of any Indian as a citizen of the United States. Approved September 6, 1962.

Publication In F. R.

Public Law 87-630 AN ACT

To amend the Act of September 16, 1959 (73 Stat. 561; 43 U.S.C. 615s), relating to the construction, operation, and maintenance of the SiK>kane Valley project.

September s, 1962

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of spokane vaiiey September 16, 1959 (73 Stat. 561, 43 U.S.C. 615s), be amended as ^,*l*:;l,f„*=/^°tion project, follows: "" "*" ""* Wash.-Idaho. (a) By substituting in section 1 thereof the words "seven thousand two hundred and fifty" for the words "ten thousand three hundred" and by inserting the words "and for domestic, municipal, and industrial uses" after the words "the State of Idaho" in this same section. (b) By amending section 2 to read as follows: " I n constructing, operating, and maintaining the Spokane Valley project, the Secretary shall be governed by the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary 43 USC 371 thereto), except that (1) interest on the unpaid balance of the alloca- note. tion to domestic, municipal, and industrial water supply shall be at a rate determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, as of the beginning of the fiscal year in which construction is initiated, on the basis of the computed average interest rate payable by the Treasury upon its outstanding marketable public obligations which are neither due nor callable for redemption for fifteen years from date of issue; and (2) the remaining cost of the project beyond the amount to be reimbursed or returned by the water users shall be accounted for in the same manner as provided in item (c) of section 2 of the Act of July 27, 1954 (68 Stat. 568), and power and energy required for irrigation pumping for the Spokane Valley project shall be made available in the same manner as provided for therein. The amount to be repaid by the irrigators shall be collected by the contracting entity through a^inual assessments based upon combination turnout and acreage charges and through the use of such other^ methods as it and the Secretary "may agree upon." (c) By deleting from section 3 thereof the figure "$5,100,000" and inserting in lieu thereof the figure "$7,232,000". Approved September 6, 1962.