An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Little Wood River reclamation project, Idaho
PL 84-993 (S.3227), enacted 08/06/1956

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in practice. Those costs of constructing the project which are prop-
erly allocable to flood control and to the preservation and propaga-
tion of fish and wildlife as provided in existing law, and the like 
costs of operating and maintaining the same shall be nonreturnable 
and nonreimbursable under the reclamations laws. 
SEC. 3. The Secretary is authorized, in connection with the Crooked 
Eiver project, to construct minimum basic public recreational fa-
cilities and to arrange for the operation and maintenance of the same 
by an appropriate State or local agency or organization. The cost 
of such facilities shall be nonreturnable and nonreimbursable under 
the Federal reclamation laws. 
SEC. 4. In order to promote the preservation and propagation of 
fish and wildlife in accordance with section 2 of the Act of August 
14, 1946 (60 Stat. 1080, 16 U. S. C , sec. 661a), an appropriate screen 
and fish ladder shall be provided at the diversion canal headworks 
of the Crooked River project below Prineville Reservoir and a mini-
mum release of ten cubic feet per second shall be maintained from 
said reservoir for the benefit of downstream fishlife during those 
months when there is no other discharge therefrom, but this release 
may be reduced for brief temporary periods by the Secretary when-
ever he may find that release of the full ten cubic feet per second is 
harmful to the primary purpose of the project. 
SEC. 5. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated $6,339,000 
for construction of the new works of the Crooked River project, plus 
such amounts, if any, as may be required by reason of changes in 
the cost of construction work of the types involved therein as shown 
by engineering indices and, in addition thereto, such sums as may 
be required to operate and maintain said project. 
Approved August 6, 1956. 
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Public Law 993 
CHAPTER 981 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain 
the Little Wood River reclamation project, Idaho. 
August 6, 19£:6 
[S. 3227] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That, for the prin-
cipal purposes of improving the irrigation water supply of approxi-
mately ten thousand acres of land in Blaine County, Idaho, and assist-
ing in the control of floods, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized 
to undertake an enlargement of the Little Wood River Reservoir and to 
operate and maintain the same in accordance with the Federal recla-
mation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory 
thereof or supplementary thereto). Any contract entered into under 
section 9, subsection (d), of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (63 
Stat. 1187, 1193; 43 U. S. C. 485h) for payment of those portions of 
the costs of constructing, operating, and maintaining the Little Wood 
River project which are properly allocable to irrigation and which are 
assigned to be paid by the contracting organization shall provide for 
the repayment of the construction cost over a period of not more than 
forty years or as near thereto as is consistent with the adoption and 
operation of a variable payment formula which, being based on full 
repayment within the period stated under average conditions, permits 
variance in the required annual payments in the light of economic 
factors pertinent to the ability of the organization to pay. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary is authorized to construct minimum basic 
public recreational facilities in connection with the Little Wood River 
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River project. 
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cilities. 
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project and to enter into appropriate arrangements for the operation 
and maintenance of the same by a State or local agency or organization. 
The cost of such facilities shall be nonreimbursable and nonreturnable 
under the reclamation laws. 
SEC. 3. (a) The Secretary may make such reasonable provision in the 
works of the Little Wood River project as, upon further study in 
accordance with section 2 of the Act of August 14, 1946 (60 Stat. 
1080, 16 U. S. C. 66la), he finds to be required for the preservation 
and propagation of fish and wildlife. 
An appropriate portion of the 
construction cost of the project shall be allocated as provided in said 
Act and it, together with the portion of the construction cost allocated 
to flood control and the portions of the operation and maintenance 
costs allocated to these functions or the capitalized value of the equiv-
alent thereof, shall be nonreimbursable and nonreturnable under the 
reclamation laws. 
(b) So far as the Secretary finds the same to be consistent with 
safety and with efficient operation or the primary purpose of the 
Little Wood River project, the project waters in the project area shall 
be open to free public use for lawful hunting and fishing purposes, and 
free access to the waters for those purposes shall be assured. 
(c) Little Wood River Reservoir shall be operated in accord with 
water rights, under decree or permit, which are valid under the laws 
of the State of Idaho, but the Congress, taking cognizance of the 
need for clarification of certain of these rights in some formal manner 
effective under Idaho law, particularly as between the Fish and Game 
Department of said State and the water users under the Little Wood 
River project or their organizations, does not by this declaration 
accept for or impose upon the United States, its officers or employees 
any responsibility for determining the correctness of such claims of 
right and does not, either by the enactment of this Act or by any 
action taken pursuant thereto, intend to aid or prejudice the claims 
of any party to a dispute with respect thereto or to impose upon any 
party to a contract entered into under this Act any obligation with 
respect to such rights that does not exist under the laws of the State 
of Idaho or to require that water, other than that which is available 
under established rights, shall be used primarily either for irrigation 
or for the preservation of fish and wildlife resources. 
SEC. 4. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated for con-
struction of the Little Wood River project $1,880,000 plus such 
amounts, if any, as may be required by reason of changes in construc-
tion costs as indicated by engineering cost indexes applicable to the 
types of construction involved therein and, in addition, such amounts 
as may be required to operate and maintain said project. 
Approved August 6, 1956. 
August 6, 1956 
[H. R. 9348] 
Public Law 994 
CHAPTER 982 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act entitled "An Act incorporating the Archaeological Institute 
of America" to increase the value of real and personal property that such 
Institute may hold. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That section 3 of 
the Act entitled "An Act incorporating the Archaeological Institute 
of America", approved May 26, 1906 (34 Stat. 203), is amended by 
striking out "one million" and inserting in lieu thereof "twenty 
million". 
Approved August 6, 1956.