An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire lands, including farm units and improvements thereon, in the third division, Riverton reclamation project, Wyoming, and to continue to deliver water for three years to lands of said division, and for other purposes
PL 88-278 (H.R.8171), enacted 03/10/1964

156 
PUBLIC LAW 88-278-MAR. 10, 1964 
[78 STAT. 
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SEC. 4. The Administrator is authorized to provide, upon recpiest, 
to eacli former President and each former Vice President, for a period 
not to exceed six montlis from the date of tlie expiration of liis term 
of office as President or Vice President, for nse in connection Avitli 
winding up the affairs of his office, necessary services and facilities of 
the same general character as authorized by this Act to be provided to 
Presidents-elect and Vice-Pi-esidents-elect. Any person appointed or 
detailed to serve a former President or former Vice President under 
authority of this section shall l)e appointed or detailed in accordance 
with, and shall be subject to, all of the ])r()visi()ns of section H of this 
Act applicable to persons appointed or detailed under authority of 
that section. The provisions of the Act of August 25, lJ>aS (72 Stat. 
888; H TT.S.r. 102, note), other than subsections (a) and (e) shall not 
become effective with respect to a former President until six months 
after the expiration of his term of office as President. 
Al TIIORTZATION OK AIM'ROPRIATIONS 
Sjic. 5. There are hereby authorized to be appropiiated to the 
Administrator such funds as may be necessary for carrying out the 
purposes of this Act but not to exceed $900,000 for any one Presi-
dential transition, to remain available during the fiscal year in which 
the transition occurs and the next succeeding fiscal year. The Presi-
dent shall include in the budget transmitted to the Congress, for 
each fiscal year in which liis regidar term of office will expire, a ])i'o-
posed appropriation for carrying out the pui'poses of this Act. 
Approved March 7, 1964. 
March 10, 1964 
[H. R. 8171] 
Public Law 88-278 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire lands, including farm units 
and improvements thereon, in the third division, Riverton reclamation project, 
Wyoming, and to continue to deliver water for three years to lands of said 
division, and for other purposes. 
Riverton recla-
mation project. 
Land purchase. 
Purchase 
options. 
Reports to Con-
gress. 
Be it enacted 'by the Senate: and House of RepresentatAvei< of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ (a) That the Sec-
retary of the Interior shall negotiate with the entrymen on and the 
owners of land within the third division of the Riverton Federal recla-
mation project, Wyoming, for the purchase of their lands, patented 
or unpatented, at a price equal to the appraised value thereof and of 
the improvements thereon. In the case of any lands which were rep-
resented as being suitable for sustained irrigation production in the 
land classification in force at the time entry was mjide or the lands 
were acquired by the present owner (or, if the present owmer acquired 
the same by descent or devise, by his predecessor in title), such value 
shall be determined without reference to any deterioration in their 
irrigability subsequent to the time of entry or acquisition arising from 
above-normal seepage and/or inadequate drainage. 
The Secretary 
is authorized to acquire options for the purchase of such lands in the 
name of the United States. He shall make a final report on the result 
of his negotiations and on options acquired to the President of the 
Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives on or before 
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June 30,1964, and, upon the expiration of not less than sixty calendar 
days after the submission of this report, he may acquire such lands. 
(b) Property acquired by the United States under this section shall ta?f ^^°^ej.t°^ *"''" 
be available for disposal under the terms of the Farm Unit Exchange 
Act of August 13,1953 (67 Stat. 566), or at public or private sale for 
not less than the appraised value at the time of such sale. 
Costs 
incurred by the Secretary under this section which are not offset by 
returns from sales shall be nonreimbursable and nonreturnable. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary is authorized to continue to deliver water to 
"^^^^ delivery. 
the lands of the third division during calendar years 1964, 1965, and 
1966 as under the provisions of section 9, subsection (d) (1), of the 
Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187, 1195; 43 U.S.C. 
485h(d)) but without regard to the time limitation therein specified. 
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Water shall be furnished only upon individual application therefor 
Payment. 
and upon payment of an amount for each acre to which water is to be 
furnished to the applicant during the year in question equal to the 
estimated average cost per acre for all lands to be irrigated that year 
of operating and maintaining the third division. Prior to the expira- ^^^^^"''^ *° '^°"* 
tion of this three-year period (January 1, 1967), the Secretaiy shall 
determine whether there are sufficient lands capable of sustained pro-
duction under irrigation use in the North Portal, North Pavillion, and 
Cottonwood Bench areas of the third division to form an economical, 
feasible unit and shall report, his findings thereon to the Congress. 
SEC. 3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the limitation 43°^"^.'^^'^'^ """'' 
of lands held in single ownership within the third division which are 
eligible to receive project water from, through, or by means of project 
works shall be one hundred and sixty acres of class 1 land or the 
equivalent thereof in other land classes, as determined by the Secretary. 
SEC. 4. Construction costs of the third division which the Secretary 
construction 
determines to be assignable to the lands classified as permanently 
nonproductive shall be nonreturnable and nonreimbursable under the 
Federal reclamation laws: Provided, 
That whenever new lands or 
lands formerly classified as nonproductive, are subsequently classified 
or reclassified as productive, the repayment obligation of the repay-
ment organization within whicli such lands are included shall be 
appropriately increased. 
SEC. 5. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any admin- fo^°'"io*°"'"^ °" 
istrative regulation, or the terms of any mortgage or other security u.^s.'' "^""^^ ^ 
instrument, no real property on the third division which has hereto-
fore been mortgaged or otherwise encumbered as securitj' for a debt 
to the United States or any of its agencies shall be subject to fore-
closure or other process of law for enforcement of the debt between 
the effective date of this Act and December 1, 1964: Provided, Thai 
nothing contained in the foregoing shall operate to discharge any 
obligation of the debtor to the LTnited States. 
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or any adminis- 
Pro'hib-"-*^^^''^' 
trative regulation, no agency of the United States shall hereafter and 
prior to December 1, 1964, take as security for a debt to the United 
States or to that oi- any other agency of the United States any mort-
gage or other fonn of encumbrance on real property on the third 
division unless (1) the debt to the United States or its agency has 
heretofore been incurred and the security has heretofore been given 
and is required to be continued in connection with a renewal or 
refinancing of the debt or (2) the debtor specifically waives, with the 
consent of the Secretaiy of the Interior, the privilege of selling his 
land to the United States as provided in the first section of this Act. 
costs. 
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Appropriations. 
Post, p. 853. 
SEC. 6. Appropriations heretofore or hereafter made for carrying 
on the functions of the Bureau of Rechimation shall be available in 
an amount of not more than $2,000,000 for the acquisition of lands 
as provided in section 1(a) of this Act and for additional drainage 
facilities, canal lining, and structure i-eplacements: Provided^ That 
all miscellaneous net revenues received from the sale of lands under 
section 1(b) of this Act sliall be applied against such costs. 
Approved March 10, 1964. 
March 10, 1964 
[H. R. 7235] 
Public Law 88-279 
AN ACT 
To amend sections 671 and 672 of title 28. United States Code, relntinfr to the 
clerk and the marshal of the Supreme Court. 
Supreme Court. 
62 Stat. 918. 
Clerk. 
Payment of 
salaries. 
Printing briefs; 
travel expenses. 
Marshal. 
Effective date. 
Be it enacted by the /Senate and Hou.se of Beprefsentathes 
of the 
United Staten of Anneriva in Congress assembled. That subsections (c) 
and (d) of section B71 of title 28, United States Code, are amended to 
read as follows: 
"(c) The clerk may appoint and fix the compensation of necessary 
assistants and messengers with the approval of the Chief Justice of the 
United States. 
"(d) The clerk shall pay into the Treasury all fees, costs, and other 
moneys collected by him. He shall make annual returns thereof to the 
Court under regulations prescribed by it." 
SEC. 2. (a) The sixth paragraph of subsection (c) of section B72 of 
title 28, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: 
"(6) Pay the salaries of the Chief Justice, Associate Justices, 
and all officers and employees of the Court and disburse other 
funds appropriated for disbursement, under the direction of the 
Chief Justice;". 
(b) Section 672(c) is further amended by adding at the end thereof 
the following new paragraph: 
"(7) Pay the expenses of printing briefs and travel expenses 
of attorneys in behalf of persons whose motions to appear in 
forma pauperis in the Supreme Court have been approved and 
when counsel have been appointed by the Supreme Court, upon 
vouchers certified by the clerk of the Court." 
SEC. 3. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated annually 
such sums as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. 
SEC. 4. The amendments proposed in this Act shall become effective 
only when funds have been appropriated and are available to pay the 
salaries and other expenses of the clerk's office. 
Approved March 10, 1964. 
March 11, 1964 
[S. 1153] 
Public Law 88-280 
AN ACT 
To amend the Federal Airport Act to extend the time for uiakini; grunts 
thereunder, and for other purposes. 
Federal Airport 
Act, amendment. 
60 Stat. 170. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 2 of 
the Federal Airport Act (49 U.S.C. 1101) is amended: 
(1) by striking out the designation " ( a ) " at the beginning 
thereof;