An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to enlarge existing water-supply facilities for the San Diego, Calif., area in order to insure the existence of an adequate water supply for naval installations and defense production plants in such area
PL 82-171 (H.R.5102), enacted 10/11/1951

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PUBLIC LAW 169—OCT. 11, 1951 
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Short title. 
of the Government of the United States by force or violence, and 
accepts employment the salary or wages for which are paid from any 
appropriation contained in this Act shall be guilty of a felony and, 
upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for 
not more than one year, or both: Provided further, That the above 
penalty clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any 
other provisions of existing law. 
SEC. 108. This Act may be cited as the "Legislative Branch Appro-
priation Act, 1952". 
Approved October 11, 1951. 
October 11,1951 
[H. J. Res. 340] 
Public L a w 169 
CHAPTER 492 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Making an appropriation for the Veterans* Administration for the 
fiscal 
year 1952. 
Resolved hy the Seriate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby appro-
priated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, the following sum: 
VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION 
SERVICEMEN'S INDEMNITIES 
Avtt, p. 33. 
For payment of liabilities under the Servicemen's Indemnity Act 
of 1951, $5,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
Approved October 11, 1951. 
October 11,1951 
[H. R. 3932] 
Public Law 170 
CHAPTER 493 
AN ACT 
To provide vocational rehabilitation training for veterans with compensable 
service-connected disabilities who served on or after June 27,1950. 
64 Stat. 1121. 
38 U. S. C. § 701a. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That Public Law 
894, Eighty-first Congress, approved December 28, 1950, is hereby 
amended by substituting for the words "subparagraph I (c), part I I " 
the words "part I". 
Approved October 11, 1951. 
October 11,1951 
[H. R. 5102] 
Public Law 171 
CHAPTER 494 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to enlarge existing water-supply facilities 
for the San Diego, California, area in order to insure the existence of an 
adequate water supply for naval installations and defense production plants 
in such area. 
Navy Department. 
Water-supply facili-
ties for San Diego, 
Calif., area. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assetribled, That, subject to the 
provisions of section 3 of this Act, the Secretary of the Navy, under 
the direction of the Secretary of Defense, is authorized and directed 
to provide for— 
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(1) such enlargement of the existing aqueduct extending from 
the west end of the San Jacinto tunnel of the Metropolitan Water 
District of Southern California to the San Vicente Reservoir in 
San Diego County, California, as may be necessary to increase 
the rated capacity of such existing aqueduct from eighty-five 
cubic feet per second to not less than one hundred and sixty-five 
cubic feet per second, or 
(2) the construction of a new aqueduct paralleling such exist-
ing aqueduct and having a rated capacity of not less than eighty 
cubic feet per second. 
SEC. 2. The use of all water diverted through said works from the 
Colorado River shall be subject to and controlled by the Colorado 
River Compact, the Boulder Canyon Project Act, the California Self- 
I^XJ^Q c^'eirt 
Limitation Statute and the Mexican Water Treaty and shall be 
59 stat.", pt.'a, 
included within and shall in no way increase the total quantity of ^' ^
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water to the use of which the State of California is entitled and limited 
by said compact, statutes, and treaty. 
SEC. 3. No construction shall be undertaken under the authority of Dte°o*counr^*water 
section 1 of this Act and no funds shall be expended for the preparation Authority, 
of plans or specifications for any such construction unless and until 
the Secretary of the Navy has entered into a contract with the San 
Diego County Water Authority amending the contract (NOy-13300) 
of October 17, 1945 (providing for the completion of such existing 
aqueduct), to provide— 
(1) for the computation of the true cost of the work performed 
under the authority of section 1 of this Act in the same man-
ner as provided for determining true cost in such contract of 
October 17, 1945; 
(2) for the repayment of the true cost of the work performed 
under the authority of section 1 of this Act, together with interest 
on such amount computed at the rate certified by the Secretary 
of the Treasury to be the average rate paid by United States on 
its long-term loans, within a period of forty years after the com-
pletion and delivery to the San Diego County Water Authority 
of possession of the works constructed under the authority of 
this Act: Provided, 
That repayment shall be made in annual 
installments of not less than one-fortieth of the true cost due when 
computed as herein prescribed plus annually accrued interest; 
(3) that the use of all water diverted through said works from 
the Colorado River shall be subject to and controlled by the Colo-
rado River Compact, the Boulder Canyon Project Act, the Cali-
fornia Self-Limitation Statute and the Mexican Water Treaty 
and shall be included within and shall in no way increase the 
total quantity of water to the use of which the State of Cali-
fornia is entitled and limited by the said compact, treaty, and 
statutes; 
(4) for the conveyance by the United States to the San Diego 
County Water Authority of title to the works constructed 
(including all rights-of-way and other interests in land used in 
connection with such works) under such contract of October 17, 
1945, together with the works constructed under the authority of 
section 1 of this Act, upon repayment of the true cost of such 
works, including interest, computed as hereinabove set forth; and 
(5) that after the effective date of this contract the member 
agencies of the San Diego County Water Authority, their suc-
cessors or assigns as the distributors of the water, shall furnish 
to the Government on a preferential basis and at a rate no higher 
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Acquisition of lands, 
etc. 
Use of Colorado 
River water. 
Condition and cove-
nant. 
Provision for con-
struction. 
Appropriation au-
thorized. 
46 S t a t . , P t . 2, 
p. 3000. 
45 Stat. 1057. 
43 U. S. C. § 617t. 
than that charged other users of comparable quantities of water, 
a quantity of water sufficient to meet the requirements of Govern-
ment activities located and to be located in the area served by such 
agencies. 
SEC. 4. For the purpose of enabling him to carry out the provisions 
of the first section of this Act, the Secretary of the Navy is author-
ized to acquire lands and rights pertaining thereto, or other interests 
therein, including the temporary use thereof, by donation, purchase, 
exchange of Government-owned lands, or otherwise. 
SEC. 5. The United States and the San Diego County Water 
Authority and their respective permittees, licensees, and contractees 
and all users and appropriators of water of the Colorado River 
diverted or delivered through the existing aqueduct and the enlarge-
ment or addition thereto shall observe and be subject to the Colorado 
River Compact, the Boulder Canyon Project Act, the California Self-
Limitation Statute and the Mexican Water Treaty in the diversion, 
delivery, and use of water of the Colorado River, anything in this 
Act to the contrary notwithstanding, and such condition and cove-
nant shall attach as a matter of law whether or not set out or referred 
to in the instrument evidencing such permit, license, or contract and 
shall be deemed to be for the benefit of and be available to the States 
of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and 
Wyoming and the users of water therein or thereunder by way of suit, 
defense, or otherwise in any litigation respecting the waters of the 
Colorado River. 
SEC. 6. The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to provide for the 
construction of the whole or any part of the work authorized by the 
first section of this Act (1) by contract, (2) by the use of facilities 
and personnel of the Navy Department, or (3) by the use of the 
facilities and personnel of any other department or agency of the 
United States with which an agreement may be entered into to per-
form or to have performed the whole or any part of such work. 
SEC. 7. The appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to 
carry out the provisions of this Act is hereby authorized. 
SEC. 8. This Act and all works constructed hereunder shall be sub-
ject to and controlled by the Colorado River Compact dated November 
24, 1922, and proclaimed effective by the President June 25, 1929; 
the Boulder Canyon Project Act approved December 21, 1928; the 
California Limitation Act approved by the Governor of California 
March 4,1929; and no right or claim of right to the use of the waters 
of the Colorado River shall be aided or prejudiced hereby. 
Approved October 11, 1951. 
October 11,1951 
[H. R. 5013] 
Public Law 172 
CHAPTER 495 
AN ACT 
To authorize the President to proclaim regulations for preventing collisions 
at sea. 
Regulations for pre-
venting collisions at 
Publication. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the President 
is authorized to proclaim the regulations set forth in section 6 of this 
Act for preventing collisions involving water-borne craft upon the 
high seas, and in all waters connected therewith. 
Such proclamation, 
together with the regulations, shall be published in the Federal