An Act to amend the act entitled ""An Act to recognize the high public services rendered by Maj. Walter Reed and those associated with him in the discovery of the cause and means of transmission of yellow fever,"" approved February 28, 1929, by including therein the name of Gustaf E. Lambert
PL 84-644 (H.R.5590), enacted 07/02/1956

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costs, if any, as may thereafter be incurred by the United States 
in its operation and maintenance of the project works; and 
(5) provide for payment of rates under any contract entered 
into pursuant to said subsection (e) in advance of delivery of 
water on an annual or semiannual basis as specified in the contract. 
(6) include a reasonable construction component in the rates 
set out in any long-term contract hereafter entered into under 
said subsection (e) prior to amortization of that part of the cost 
of constructing the project which is assigned to be repaid by the 
contracting party. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary is hereby authorized to negotiate amendments 
to existing contracts entered into pursuant to section 9, subsection (e), 
of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 to conform said contracts to 
the provisions of this Act. 
SEC. 3. As used in this Act, the term "long-term contract" shall mean 
any contract the term of which is more than ten years. 
SEC. 4. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting or in-
tended to affect or to in any way interfere with the laws of any State 
relating to the control, appropriation, use, or distribution of water 
used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder, and the 
Secretary in carrying out the provisions of this Act, shall proceed in 
conformity with such laws, and nothing herein shall in any way affect 
any right of any State or of the Federal Government or of any land-
owner, appropriator, or user of water in, to, or from any interstate 
stream or the waters thereof: Provided^ That the right to the use of 
water acquired under the provisions of this Act shall be appurtenant 
to the land irrigated and beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure, 
and the limit of the right. 
SEC. 5. This Act shall be a supplement to the Federal reclamation 
laws (Act of June 17,1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof 
or supplementary thereto). 
Approved July 2, 1956. 
July 2, 1956 
[H. R. 5590] 
Public Law 644 
CHAPTER 493 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act entitled "An Act to recognize the high public service rendered 
by Major Walter Reed and those associated with him in the discovery of the 
cause and means of transmission of yellovp fever", approved February 28, 1929, 
by including therein the name of Gustaf E. Lambert. 
Walter Reed* as-
sociates. 
Gustaf E. Lam-
bert* 
Benefits. 
Be it enacted hy the Semite and House of Representatives 
of the 
United /States of Ainerica in Conor ess assembled^ That the Act entitled 
"An Act to recognize the high puolic service rendered by Major Walter 
Reed and those associated with him in the discovery of the cause and 
means of transmission of yellow fever", approved February 28, 1929 
(45 Stat. 1409), is hereby amended by inserting after the name of John 
J. Moran, wherever it appears in such Act, the name of Gustaf E. 
I^mbert. 
SEC. 2. No benefits shall be paid by reason of the amendment made 
by this Act for any period prior to the date an application therefor 
is filed with the Veterans' Administration after the date of enactment 
of this Act and payment of any such benefits shall be made by the 
Veterans' Administration. 
Approved July 2, 1956.