An Act to approve an amendatory repayment contract negotiated with the Quincy Columbia Basin Irrigation District, authorize similar contracts with any of the Columbia Basin Irrigation Districts, and to amend the Columbia Basin Project Act of 1943 (57 Stat. 14), as amended, and or other purposes
PL 87-728 (H.R.11164), enacted 10/01/1962

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PUBLIC L
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Public Law 87-727 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act of August 20, 1954 (68 Stat. 752), in order to provide for the 
construction, operation, and maintenance of additional features of the Talent 
division of the Rogue River Basin reclamation project, Oregon. 
October I, 1962 
[S. 1023] 
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note. 
Recreation fa-
cilities. 
Be it ena,cted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That, in addition to 
Agate D
a
m and 
the works described in section 1 of the Act of August 20, 1954 (68 ^cfonIt°mct?on^au-
Stat. 752), the Secretary of the Interior, acting pursuant to the Fed- thority. 
eral reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts 
amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto), is authorized to con-
struct, operate, and maintain as a part of the Talent division of the 
Rogue River Basin project, Oregon, the following works: Agate Dam 
and Reservoir, a diversion dam, feeder canals, and related facilities. 
SEC. 2. (a) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in connection 
with the works authorized by this Act, to construct minimum basic 
public recreation facilities and to arrange for the operation and 
maintenance of the same by an appropriate State or local agency or 
organization. 
The cost of constructing such facilities shall be non-
reimbursable and nonreturnable under the reclamation laws. 
(b) The Secretary may make such reasonable provision in the 
works authorized by this Act as he finds to be required for the con-
servation and development of fish and wildlife in accordance with the 
provisions of the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (48 Stat. 401, 
as amended; 16 U.S.C., sec. 661, and the following), and the portion 
of the construction costs allocated to these purposes together with an 
appropriate share of the operation, maintenance, and replacement 
costs therefor, shall be nonreimbursable and nonreturnable. 
SEC. 3. (a) Section 3 of the Act of August 20, 1954, supra, is 
amended by inserting after the figure "$22,900,000" the following: 
", and for the construction of Agate Dam and Reservoir the sum of 
$1,802,000 (January 1960 costs), in each case". 
(b) Section 2, subsection (c) of said Act is amended by deleting 
the final period and adding to the last sentence "from the date when 
each irrigation repayment contract becomes effective." 
Approved October 1, 1962. 
Fish and wild-
life. 
60 Stat. 1080. 
Public Law 87-728 
AN ACT 
To approve an amendatory repayment contract negotiated with the Quincy 
Columbia Basin Irrigation District, authorize similar contracts with any of 
the Columbia Basin Irrigation Districts, and to amend the Columbia Basin 
Project Act of 1943 (57 Stat. 14), as amended, and for other purposes. 
October 1, 1962 
[H. R. 11164] 
Be it enacted hy the SeTiate and House of Bepresentatifves of the 
United States of Amsrica in Congress assembled.^ That the amendatory 
repayment contract with the Quincy Columbia Basin Irrigation Dis-
trict negotiated by the Secretary of the Interior, pursuant to subsec-
tion (a) of section 7 of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 
1192; 43 U.S.C, 485f), which contract was approved by the district 
electors on February 13, 1962, is hereby approved and the Secretary 
is hereby authorized to execute it on behalf of the United States and 
to negotiate and execute on behalf of the United States amendatory 
repayment contracts in substantially the same form or amendatory 
repayment contracts containing substantially the same provisions with 
the South and East Columbia Basin Irrigation Districts. 
Quincy Colum-
bia Basin Irriga-
tion District. 
Repayment con-
tracts. 
note. 
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SEC. 2. Upon any amendatory repayment contract with a Columbia 
Basin Irrigation District approved or authorized by this Act becoming 
effective to bind the United States, that district's share of the opera-
tion and maintenance funds expended or obligated for the construc-
tion of drainage works including appropriate interest thereon during 
calendar years 1960, 1961, and 1962 shall be capitalized and charged 
as a part of the construction cost of the project works assigned 
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directly to irrigation and the Secretary shall either refund to it or 
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gjyg ji credit for (as it may elect) all operation and maintenance pay-
ments (including interest paid by it in connection therewith) which 
it has made for the construction of drainage works during those years, 
such credit, if so elected by the district, to be applied against future 
development period and/or construction charges of the district as 
they become due. 
SEC. 3. The Columbia Basin project shall be governed by the Fed-
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eral reclamatibn laws,-being the Act of June 17., 1902 (32 Stat. 388.), 
and all Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, except that 
sections 2, 3, 7, and 9 of the Columbia Basin Project Act of March 10, 
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1943 (57 Stat. 14), as amended, are hereby repealed and section 4 of 
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^h® Columbia Basin Project Act, as amended, is further amended to 
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read as follows: 
Secretary of 
"SEC. 4. (a) For the purposes of assisting in the permanent settle-
^AJthority. 
ment of farm families, protecting project land, and facilitating project 
development, the Secretary is authorized to administer public lands of 
the United States in the project area and lands acquired under this 
section; to sell, exchange, or lease such lands; to dedicate portions of 
such lands for public purposes in keeping with sound project devel-
opment ; to acquire in the name of the United States, at prices satis-
factory to him, such lands or interests in lands, within or adjacent to 
the project area, as he deems appropriate for the protection, develop-
ment, or improvement of the project; and to accept donations of real 
and personal property for the purposes of this Act. 
Any moneys 
realized on account of donations for purposes of this Act shall be 
covered into the Treasury as trust funds. 
"(b) Contracts, exchanges, and leases made under this section shall 
be on terms that, in the Secretary's judgment, are in keeping with 
sound project development. In addition, land sale and exchange con-
tracts shall be on a basis that, in the Secretary's judgment, provides 
for the return, in a reasonable period of years, of not less than the 
appraised value of the land and improvements thereon. 
Qualifica-
tion of applicants for the purchase of land for irrigation farming 
shall be prescribed as provided in subsection (c) of section 4 of the 
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Act of December 5, 1924 (43 Stat. 702), notwithstanding any other 
provisions of law. No farm unit shall be sold to, and no contract to 
sell a. farm unit shall be entered into with, any person, corporation, or 
joint-stock association which has theretofore purchased or entered into 
a contract to purchase a farm unit from the United States on the Co-
lumbia Basin project. 
The foregoing provisions of this paragraph 
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shall apply only to the sale of farm units which are suitable for settle-
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ment purposes. Farm units which, in the opinion of the Secretary, 
are not suitable for settlement purposes may be sold with a preference 
to resident project landowners as supplemental units, subject to the 
applicable irrigable acreage limitations on the delivery of water, but 
the purchasers thereof shall not be entitled to benefits of the Act 
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of August 13,1953 (67 Stat. 666) with respect .thereto." 
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SEC. 4. The Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to amend 
Existing Con-
or modify all existing contracts, instruments, rules, regulations, forms, ficatfon?°'^^' 
and procedures entered into or issued under the Columbia Basin 
Project Act, as amended (16 U.S.C, chap. 12D) prior to the date of 
57 stat. 14. 
enactment of this Act to conform to the provisions of this Act. 
SKC. 5. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of the Federal reclama- 
water delivery 
tion laws, water inay be delivered to a farm unit platted before the t?onsr*^*' "*'' 
enactment of this Act that contains a nominal quarter section of land 
exceeding one hundred and sixty irrigable acres insofar as those pro-
visions limit the delivery of water to irrigable lands in excess of one 
hundred and sixty irrigable acres. 
(b) The rights of any vendee or grantee as defined in section 3 of 
•the Columbia Basin Project Act of 1943 are hereby preserved as to 
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-any transactions that were consummated by contract or deed prior to 
repeal of said section 3 by this Act. 
SEC. 6. The following sections of the Columbia Basin Project Act 
of March 10, 1943, are hereby amended in the following respects: 
(a) Section 5 (b). Delete the last sentence thereof. 
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(b) Section 6. Delete "under section 2 hereof" and insert in lieu 
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thereof the words "for the repayment thereof". 
(c) Sections. 
Delete "and to include in the contracts hereinbefore 
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provided for" and insert in lieu thereof the words "and to include in 
contracts relating to the Columbia Basin project". 
SEC. 7. The Act of June 23, 1959 (73 Stat. 87) is hereby amended 
water delivery 
to permit delivery of water to not to exceed six hundred and forty land*.^*^'°^"^'^ 
acres of irrigable lands whether or not said lands are in conformed 
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farm units, owned b}^ the State of Washington for use by the Wash- "°*^' 
ington State L^niversity for agricultural research purposes. 
Approved October 1, 1962. 
Public Law 87-729 
A N ,ACT 
October 1, 1962 
To amend the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962 with regard to 
[S.3529] 
reimbursement of the railroad unemployment insurance account. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That subsection (h) 
Railroad unem-
of section 203 of the Manpower Development and Training Act of anc^^aMo^untTre-
1962 is amended, effective March 15, 1962, by inserting " ( 1 ) " after ^"'^if^^^'JJ®'^*; 
the subsection designation, and by adding at the end of such subsection 
the following new paragraph: 
"(2) If unemployment benefits under the Railroad Unemploy-
ment Insurance Act are paid to a person taking training under this 
52 stat. 1094. 
Act and eligible for a training allowance, the railroad unemployment 
"" "°'" "'"' 
insurance account in the unemployment trust fund shall be reim-
bursed, from funds herein appropriated, for all of such benefits paid 
prior to July 1, 1964, and for 50 per centum of the amount of such 
benefits paid on or after that date. The amount of such reimburse-
ment shall be determined by the Secretary of Labor on the basis of 
reports furnished to him by the Railroad Retirement Board and such 
amount shall then be placed in the railroad unemployment insurance 
account." 
Approved October 1, 1962. 
Ante, p. 27. 
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