An Act authorizing construction of works to reestablish for the Palo Verde Irrigation District, California, a means of diversion of its irrigation water supply from the Colorado River, and for other purposes
PL 83-752 (H.R.8498), enacted 08/31/1954

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from other American republics for internment, may, not later than 
June 30,1955, apply to the Attorney General of the United States for 
an adj ustment of his immigration status." 
SEC. 4. That subsection (a) of section 7 be amended by adding at 
the end thereof the following: "No visa shall be issued under the 
allotment of forty-five thousand visas heretofore made by paragraph 
(5) of subsection 4 (a) of this Act to refugees in Italy, or under tne 
allotment of fifteen thousand visas heretofore made by paragraph 
(7) of subsection 4 (a) of this Act to refugees in Greece, or under the 
allotment of fifteen thousand visas heretofore made by paragraph (9) 
of subsection 4 (a) of this Act to refugees in the Netherlands, to an 
alien who qualifies under the preferences specified in paragraph (2), 
(3), or (4) of section 203 (a) of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act, until satisfactory evidence is presented to the responsible consu-
lar officer to establish that the alien in question will have suitable 
employment and housing, without displacing aiw other person there-
from, after arrival in the United States. 
Verification of such avail-
able employment and housing shall be made in accordance with such 
regulations as the Administrator may, in his discretion, prescribe for 
the administration of the Act, including job order clearances by the 
United States Employment Service and its affiliated State employ-
ment services, and a certification by local housing authorities wherever 
they exist and are authorized and prepared to make such certifica-
tions." 
Approved August 31, .1954. 
visas. 
Italy. 
SO u s e 1971e, 
Greece. 
Netherlands. 
66 Stat. 178. 
8 u s e 1153. 
Verification of 
employment, etc. 
Public Law 752 
CHAPTER 1170 
AN ACT 
Authorizing construction of works to reestablisli for the Palo Verde Irrigation 
District, California, a means of diversion of its irrigation water supply from 
the Colorado River, and for other purposes. 
August 31, 1954 
[H. R. 8498] 
Contract. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That for the pur- gl'uon^'mstrii't', 
pose of reestablishing for the Palo Verde Irrigation District, a public ^ Di(;„aion d a 
agency of the State of California, a means of diverting its irrigation etc. 
water supply from the Colorado River, the Secretary of the Interior 
is authorized to construct a dam across the Colorado River at or near 
the district's present or former intake capable of diverting water into 
said intake at an elevation of two hundred eighty-two and three-tenths 
feet above mean sea level. Bureau of Reclamation datum, and works 
a ppurtenant to said dam which are required to carry out the purposes 
stated. 
SEC. 2. Prior to commencing construction of the works authorized 
in section 1 of this Act, the Palo Verde Irrigation District shall have 
entered into a contract with the United States, in form and content 
satisfactory to the Secretary, undertaking— 
(a) to furnish to the United States for the construction and 
maintenance of said dam and appurtenant works the use of all 
lands, easements, rights-of-way, and other interests in land re-
quired for said purposes, except those which the United States 
already has a full and perfect right to use or which lie witliin the 
Colorado River Indian Reservation, and to save the United States 
harmless from all claims arising from the use and occupancy of 
said lands and interests in land and the operation and maintenance 
of said dam and appurtenant works; 
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(b) to operate and maintain said dam and appurtenant works 
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without cost to the United States upon substantial completion 
thereof as determined by the Secretary; and 
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(c) to accept title to said dam, appurtenant works, lands, and 
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interests in land upon payment by the district (which payment 
shall be made over a period of not more than fifty years) of the 
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sum of $1,175,000, and upon repayment of any loan made pursuant 
to section 4, clause (c), of this Act: Provided, That there shall be 
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and is hereby reserved to the United States or there shall be made 
available to it, as the case may require, the exclusive right to 
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utilize, without cost to it, said dam, appurtenant works, lands, and 
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interests in land for such development, generation, and trans-
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mission of electric power and energy as may hereafter be author-
ized by law: Provided further, That in the event it becomes prac-
ticable to develop hydroelectric energy at this site, the division of 
such energy between the United States and the district shall be 
a matter of negotiation prior to construction of any powerplant. 
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^^^- ^- To aid in the construction, operation, and maintenance of 
the works authorized by this Act, the Secretary shall have the same 
authority as is given him with respect to the Colorado River front 
work and levee system by the second sentence of the amendment to 
the Act of January 21, 1927 (44 Stat. 1010, 1021), which is contained 
in the Act of June 28,1946 (60 Stat. 338). 
SEC. 4. The Secretary is further authorized— 
(a) and directed to remove, or otherwise to nullify the effects 
of, the temporary rock weir across the Colorado River which was 
constructed under authority of the First Deficiency Appropriation 
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Act, 1944 (58 Stat. 150,157); 
(b) to construct levees, ditches, and other works required to 
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protect the lands of the Colorado River Indian Reservation up-
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stream from the diversion dam authorized in section 1 of this 
Act against Colorado River flows of seventy-five thousand cubic 
feet per second and to provide a means of draining said lands; 
(c) to lend to the Palo Verde Irrigation District, upon terms 
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^^^ conditions satisfactory to the Secretary, the sum of not more 
than $500,000 for the modification of the district's existing works 
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^^ accommodate them to the works authorized in section 1 of this 
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Act, the sum loaned to be repaid over a period of not more than 
fifty years from the date of the loan; and 
(d) to grant to the United States, upon paying the sum of $50 
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per acre into the Treasury to the credit of the Colorado River 
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Indian Tribes of the Colorado River Indian Reservation, such 
lands, easements, rights-of-way, or other interests in land within 
the Colorado River Indian Reservation, not exceeding thirty 
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acres in all, as may be required for the construction and main-
tenance of the works authorized in section 1 of this Act: Pro-
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vided, That nothing contained herein shall preclude said tribes, 
if they believe that such payment constitutes less than just com-
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pensation for the extinguishment or impairment of their interest 
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in the lands and interests in land in question, from maintaining 
an appropriate action against the United States for such com-
pensation. 
Use of water. 
gj,^^ g rpj^^ ^gg Q£ ^jj water diverted for the district through said 
works from the Colorado River shall be subject to and controlled by 
the Colorado River Compact, the Boulder Canyon Project Act (45 
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gtat. 1057), the California Limitation Act (Stats. Cal. 1929, ch. 16), 
contract dated February 7, 1933, between the United States and Palo 
Verde Irrigation District, and the Mexican Water Treaty (Treaty 
59 Stat. 1219. 
Scries 994), and shall be included within and shall in no way increase 
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the total use of water to which the State of California is entitled as 
limited by said compact, statutes, contract, and treaty. 
SEC. 6. Neither the enactment of this Act nor anything contained 
in it nor any action taken pursuant to it shall be deemed a recogni-
tion or admission of any obligation or liability whatsoever to the Palo 
Verde Irrigation District on the part of the United States. 
SEC. 7. All costs incurred under authority of this Act, except those 
to be repaid by the Palo Verde Irrigation District, shall be nonreim-
bursable. 
SEC. 8. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any 
moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of 
$7,099,000. 
Approved August 31, 1954. 
Nonliability. 
Nonreimbtjrs atile 
costs. 
Appropriation. 
Public Law 753 
CHAPTER 1171 
AN ACT 
To amend Revised Statutes 4426. 
August 31, 19£;4 
[H. R. 8647] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States 
of America 
in Congress assenibled^ That Revised 
Statutes 4426, as amended, is further amended by inserting a colon and 
the following before the period at the end of the third sentence: 
'"Provided., hoioever., That, until June JiO, 1956, no vessel registered or 
licensed as a vessel of the United States of fifteen gross tons or less on 
December 31, 1953, shall be deemed to be subject to the inspection 
provisions of this section notwithstanding the fact that such vessel 
may thereafter be found to have a tonnage in excess of fifteen gross 
tons, unless such finding results from an alteration in the length, 
breadth, or depth affected after December 31,1953." 
Approved August 31, 1954. 
46 u s e 404. 
I n s p e c t i o n of 
vessels. 
Public Law 754 
CHAPTER 1172 
AN ACT 
To increase tlie borrowing power of Commodity Credit Corporation. 
August 31, 1954 
[H. R. 9756] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled., That section 4 of 
the Act approved March 8, 1938 (52 Stat. 108), as amended, is 
amended by striking out "$8,500,000,000" and inserting in lieu thereof 
"$10,000,000,000". 
SEC. 2. Section 4 (i) of the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter 
Act (62 Stat. 1070), as amended, is amended by striking out $8,500,-
000,000" and inserting in lieu thereof "$10,000,000,000". 
SEC. 3. (a) Section 8e of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (of 
1933), as amended, and as reenacted and amended by the Agricultural 
Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, as amended, is amended by insert-
ing after "avocados" a comma and the word "mangoes". 
(b) The amendment made by this section shall become effective 
upon the enactment of this Act or upon the enactment of the Agri-
cultural Act of 1954, whichever occurs later. 
Approved August 31, 1954. 
C o m i n o d i t 3 ^ 
Credit Corporationi. 
B orro wing p o weii 
15 u s e 713a-4. 
Ante, p. 30. 
15 u s e 714b(i). 
Imp ort ation of 
mangoes. 
Ante, p. 907.