An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the upper division of the Baker Federal reclamation project, Oregon, and for other purposes
PL 87-706 (H.R.575), enacted 09/27/1962

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PUBLIC LAW 87-706-SEPT. 27, 1962 
[76 STAT. 
September 27, 1962 
[H. R. 575] 
Public Law 87-706 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain 
the upper division of the Baker Federal reclamation project, Oregon, and 
for other purposes. 
Baker Federal 
reclamation proj-
ect, Oreg. 
Construction au-
thorization. 
43 u s e 371note. 
Repayment peri-
od, extension. 
53 S^tat. 1193; 
72 Stat. 542, 
Public recreation 
facilities. 
Fish and wild-
life conservation. 
60 Stat. 1080. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Refresentatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That for the pur-
poses of providing irrigation water, controlling floods, conserving 
and developing fish and wildlife, and providing recreational benefits, 
the Secretary of the Interior, acting pursuant to the Federal reclama-
tion laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory 
thereof or supplementary thereto), is authorized to construct, operate, 
and maintain the facilities of the upper division of the Baker Federal 
reclamation project, Oregon. 
The principal works of the project 
shall consist of a dam and reservoir, pumping plants, and related 
facilities. 
SEC. 2. (a) The period provided in subsection (d), section 9, of the 
Reclamation Project Act of 1939, as amended (43 U.S.C. 485h), for 
repayment of the construction cost properly chargeable to any block 
of lands and assigned to be repaid by irrigators, may be extended to 
fifty yearsj exclusive of any development period, from the time water 
is first delivered to that block or to as near that number of years as is 
consistent with the adoption and operation of a variable repayment 
plan as is provided therein. 
Costs allocated to irrigation in excess of 
the amount determined by the Secretary to be within the ability of the 
irrigators to repay, within the repayment period or periods herein 
specified, shall be returned to the reclamation fund within such period 
or periods from revenues derived by the Secretary of the Interior from 
the disposition of power from the McNary project power facilities. 
(b) Any lands in the upper division of the Baker project, Oregon, 
which are held in private ownership by a person whose holdings exceed 
the equivalent of one hundred and twenty acres of class 1 land shall, to 
the extent they exceed that acreage, be deemed excess lands. No water 
shall be furnished to such excess lands from, through, or by means 
of project works unless (1^ the owner's total holdings do not exceed 
one hundred and sixty irrigable acres or (2) said owner shall have 
executed a valid recordable contract with respect to the excess in like 
manner as provided in the third sentence of section 46 of the Act of 
May 25, 1926 (44 Stat. 636, 649, 43 U.S.C. 423e). In computing "the 
equivalent of one hundred and twenty acres of class 1 land" under the 
first sentence of this section, each acre of class 2 land shall be counted 
as seventy-five one-hundredths of an acre, each acre of class 3 land 
shall be counted as fifty-five one-hundredths of an acre, and each acre 
of class 4 land shall be counted as thirty-eight one-hundredths of an 
acre. 
SEC. 3. (a) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in connection 
with the upper division of the Baker project, 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 conservation 
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. 661-666C, inclusive), and the portion of the construction 
costs allocated to these purposes and to flood control, together with an 
appropriate share of the operation, maintenance, and replacement costs 
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therefor, shall be nonreimbursable and nonreturnable. 
Before the 
works are transferred to an irrigation water user's organization for 
care, operation, and maintenance, the organization shall have agreed 
to operate them in a manner satisfactory to the Secretary of the 
Interior with respect to achieving the fish and wildlife benefits, and to 
return the works to the United States for care, operation, and main-
tenance in the event of failure to comply with the requirements to 
achieve such benefits. 
(c) The works authorized in this Act shall be operated for flood 
control in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of 
the Army pursuant to section 7 of the Flood Control Act approved 
September 22,1944 (58 Stat. 887). 
33 use 709. 
SEC. 4. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for construe- 
Appropriation. 
tion of the Baker Federal reclamation project the sum of $6,168,000 
(February 1962 prices), plus or minus such amounts, if any, as may 
be justified by reason of ordinary fluctuations in construction costs as 
indicated by engineering cost indexes applicable to the types of con-
struction involved herem. 
There are also authorized to be appro-
priated such additional sums as may be required for operation and 
maintenance of the project. 
Approved September 27, 1962. 
Public Law 87-707 
A N A C T 
September 27, 1962 
To amend part I of the Interstate Commerce Act in order to provide that the 
^^' ^^^^ 
provisions of section 4(1) thereof, relating to long- and short-haul charges, 
shall not apply to express companies. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatwes 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 4(1) 
interstate com-
of the Interstate Commerce Act (49 U.S.C. 4(1)) is amended by in- '"•'ce Act, amend-
serting before the period at the end thereof a colon and the following: '"T'ong- and short-
^^And provided further, That the provisions of this paragraph shall ^^"i charge 
not apply to express companies subject to the provisions of this part, *Ti"st"at. 292. 
except that the exemption herein accorded express companies shall not 
be construed to relieve them from the operation of any other provision 
contained in this Act". 
Approved September 27, 1962. 
;es, ex-
Public Law 87-708 
AN ACT 
September 27, 1962 
To amend the Act of February 28, 1901, to insure that policemen and firemen [H.R. 12727] 
in the District of Columbia will receive medical care for all injuries and 
diseases. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America 
in Congress assembled, That the third 
D.C. poucemen 
sentence of paragraph (7) of the first section of the Act entitled "An ^"MedilS^c'are 
Act relating to the Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia", 
^ " ''^** 
approved February 28, 1901, as amended (D.C. Code, sec. 4^124), is 
34 stat. 222. 
amended by inserting after "Fire Department of said District" the 
following: "for any injury received or disease contracted (whether 
or not received or contracted in the performance of duty)". 
Approved September 27, 1962.