An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the initial stage of the Oahe unit, James division, Missouri River Basin project, South Dakota, and for other purposes
PL 90-453 (S.6), enacted 08/03/1968

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PUBLIC LAW 90-453-AUG. 3, 1968 
[82 STAT. 
63 Stat. 135. 
D.C. Code 25-
111a. 
Repeal. 
D.C. Code 24-
514. 
Effective date. 
and such recipient. The Commissioner shall prescribe procedures for 
the filing and hearing of such application under this paragraph. 
"(b) The Commissioner may bring an action against a person made 
liable under subsection (a) for all or any part of the cost of services 
provided under this Act to require such person to satisfy such liability. 
In such an action the court may issue an order requiring any such 
person who is a party to such action to satisfy such liability in ac-
cordance with such terms as the court may prescribe. Such order may 
be enforced in the same manner as orders for alimony. 
"(c) Sums collected by the Commissioner under this section shall 
be deposited in the Treasury of the L^nited States to the credit of 
the District of Columbia. 
"SEC. 15. The Commissioner may accept on behalf of the District 
of Columbia donations of services or gifts of real or personal property, 
tangible or intangible, which are made for the purpose of carrying out 
his functions under this Act. Gifts of money and the proceeds from the 
liquidation of any other gift shall be deposited in the Treasury of the 
United States to the credit of a trust fund account, which is hereby 
authorized, and may be invested and reinvested as trust funds of the 
District of Columbia. The Commissioner shall use such donations and 
gifts to carry out the purposes of this Act." 
(b) Section 14 of such Act is amended by striking out "SEC. 14" 
and inserting in lieu thereof "SEC. 16". 
(c) Section 15 of such Act is repealed. 
SEC. 4. The amendments made by section 3 of this Act shall take 
effect on the ninetieth day following the date of its enactment. 
Approved August 3, 1968. 
August 3, 1968 
[S. 6] 
Public Law 90-453 
A.N ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain 
the initial stage of the Oahe unit, James division, Missouri River Basin 
project. South Dakota, and for other purposes. 
Missouri River 
Basin project, 
S. Dak. 
Oahe unit. 
43 u s e 371 
and note. 
Recreation; fish 
and wildlife de-
velopment. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary of 
the Interior is hereby authorized to construct, operate, and maintain 
in accordance with the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17,1902 
(32 Stat. 388), and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary there-
to) the initial stage of the Oahe unit, James division, Missouri River 
Basin project. South Dakota, for the principal purposes of furnishing 
a surface irrigation water supply for approximately one hundred and 
ninety thousand acres of land, furnishing water for municipal and 
industrial uses, controlling floods, conserving and developing fish and 
wildlife resources, and enhancing outdoor recreation opportunities, 
and other purposes. The principal features of the initial stage of the 
Oahe unit shall consist of the Oahe pumping plant (designed to 
provide for future enlargement) to pump water from the Oahe 
Reservoir, a system of main canals, regulating reservoirs, and the 
James diversion dam and the James pumping plant on the James 
River. The remaining works will include appurtenant pumping plants, 
canals, and laterals for distributing water to the land, and a drainage 
system. 
SEC. 2. The conservation and development of the fish and wildlife 
resources and the enhancement of recreation opportunities in connec-
tion with the initial stage of the Oahe unit shall be in accordance with 
the provisions of the Federal Water Project Recreation Act (79 Stat. 
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213), Construction of the initial stage (>f the Oahe unit shall not be ^0!^ "^^ 46o^i2 
commenced as long as the State of South Dakota retains in its laws pro 
visions that prohibit the hunting of migratory waterfowl by nonresi-
dents in the waterfowl enhancement areas included within the area 
served by the project herein authorized. 
SEC. 3. The Oahe unit shall be integrated physically and financially 
with the other Federal Avorks constructed or authorized to be con-
structed under the comprehensive plan approved by section 9 of the 
Act of December 22,1944, as amended and supplemented. 
SEC. 4. For a period of ten years from the date of enactment of this 
Act, no water from the project authorized by this Act shall be delivered 
to any water user for the production on newly irrigated lands of any 
basic agricultural commodity, as defined in the Agricultural Act of 
1949, or any amendment thereof, if the total supply of such commodity 
for the marketing year in which the bulk of the crop would normally note 
be marked is in excess of the normal supply as defined in section 301 
(b) (10) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, 
unless the Secretary of Agriculture calls for an increase in production 
of such commodity in the interest of national security. 
SEC. 5. The interest rate used for purposes of computing interest 
during construction and interest on the unpaid balance of the capital 
costs allocated to interest-bearing features of the project shall be 
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 out-
standing marketable public obligations, which are neither due nor 
callable for redemption for fifteen years from daite of issue. 
SEC. 6. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for construc-
tion of the initial stage of the Oahe unit as authorized in this Act 
the sum of $191,670,000 (based upon January 1964 prices), plus or 
minus such amounts, if any, as may be justified by reason of ordinary 
fluctuations 
in construction costs as indicated by engineering costs 
indexes applicable to the types of construction involved herein. There 
are also authorized to be appropriated such additional sums as may 
be required for operation and maintenance of the unit. 
Approved August 3, 1968. 
58 Stat. 891. 
63 Stat. 1051-
7 u s e 1421 
62 Stat. 1251. 
7 use 1301. 
Interest rate, 
determination. 
Appropriat ion. 
Public Law 90-454 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the States, 
to conduct an inventory and study of the Nation's estuaries and their natural 
resources, and for other purposes. 
August 3, 1968 
[H. R. 25] 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress finds Estuarine areas, 
and declares that many estuaries in the United States are rich in a resto°ra^t^o^n." ^" 
variety of natural, oonmiercial, and other resources, including environ-