An Act to provide for the construction of the Markham Ferry project on the Grand River in Oklahoma by the Grand River Dam Authority, an instrumentality of the State of Oklahoma
PL 83-476 (S.119), enacted 07/06/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 476-JULY 6, 1954 
[68 ST A T . 
July 6, 1954 
[S.119] 
Public Law 476 
CHAPTER 461 
AN ACT 
To provide for the construction of the Marl^ham Ferry project on the Grand 
River in Oklahoma by the Grand River Dam Authority, an instrumentality 
of the State of Oklahoma. 
Markham F e r r y 
project, Okla. 
Construction, 
52 S t a t . 12 15; 
55 S t a t . 64 5; 60 
Stat. 647. 
33 u s e 701b et 
seq. 
41 S t a t . 10 63; 
49 S t a t . 8 6 3. 
16 u s e 791a. 
Power operation 
c oor dination. 
58 Stat. 890. 
33 u s e 709. 
Appropriation. 
Administratioru 
U. S. 
freedom 
from cladms, etc. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the general 
comprehensive plan for flood control and other purposes approved by 
the Act of June 28, 1938, for the Arkansas River Basin, as modified 
by the Acts of August 18, 1941, and July 24, 1946, is hereby further 
modified to provide for the construction of the Markham Ferry project 
on the Grand River in Oklahoma by the Grand River Dam Authority, 
an instrumentality of the State of Oklahoma, in accordance with the 
terms of the Federal Power Act and in general conformity with the 
recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Num-
bered 107 of the Seventy-sixth Congress and House Document Num-
bered 758 of the Seventy-ninth Congress, such project to have the same 
number of acre-feet of flood storage and the same flood control and 
power pool elevations as recommended by the Chief of Engineers, with 
provision for emergency operation for surcharge storage three feet 
above the normal flood control pool and such project shall be designed 
for an ultimate installed capacity of not less than seventy-two thousand 
kilowatts: Provided^ That the initial installation may have a smaller 
capacity. 
SEC. 2. To the extent that it may be mutually agreed between the 
Grand River Dam Authority and the Secretary of the Interior, oper-
ation for power production of this and other installations of the Grand 
River Dam Authority on the Grand River in the State of Oklahoma 
shall be coordinated with the power operations of the Federal projects 
in the area: Provided^ That nothing herein stated with regard to any 
such agreement shall be construed in any way to modify or repeal any 
existing authority vested in the Federal Power Commission by this 
or any other Act or to modify or repeal any authority of the Secretary 
of the Army or the Chief of Engineers pursuant to section 7 of Public 
Law 534, Seventy-eighth Congress. 
SEC. 3. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated not to exceed 
$6,500,000 as a monetary contribution by the United States for flood-
control storage in the Markham Ferry project: Provided, That such 
funds as may be appropriated under the foregoing authorization shall 
be administered by the Chief of Engineers in a manner which shall 
assure (1) that the Grand River Dam Authority shall comply with 
the provisions of this Act relating to the construction of the Markham 
Ferry project, and (2) that the total payment made by the Chief of 
Engineers to the Grand River Dam Authority shall be $6,500,000 less 
the sum of (a) such amount as he shall determine to represent the cost 
to the Government, including acquisition and conveyance of lands 
acquired in the Markham Ferry project area by the United States with 
flood-control appropriations and conveyed to the Grand River Dam 
Authority pursuant to section 4 of this Act, and (b) such amount as 
he shall determine to represent the fair market value of any other 
lands acquired by the United States and Public Domain lands, or 
interests therein, lying within the project area, and conveyed to the 
Grand River Dam Authority pursuant to section 4 of this Act: Pro-
vided further. That the acceptance by the Grand River Dam Authority 
of the foregoing amount shall constitute the agreement of the Grand 
River Dam Authority to hold and save the United States free and 
harmless from all claims heretofore or hereafter asserted of whatever 
nature including but not limited to acquisition of land, relocation, con-
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struction, operation and maintenance of the dam and reservoir: Pro-
vided further^ That the foregoing authorization shall be in addition 
to authorizations heretofore made for appropriations for flood-control 
projects for the Department of the Army. 
SEC. 4. The sale, transfer, assignment, grant, or conveyance to the 
Grand River Dam Authority of such land, ecisements and flowage 
rights owned by the United States of America as may be necessary 
for the construction, operation, and maintenance of the Markham 
Ferry project by the Grand River Dam Authority is hereby authorized 
and directed. 
The conveyance of such lands or interests therein shall 
be made by the Secretary of the Army, notwithstanding the provisions 
of any other law or requirement to the contrary. Other officials having 
jurisdiction over such lands are authorized and directed to transfer 
custody of such land to the Secretary of the Army. 
Reimbursement 
for the fair market value of said lands will be made by the Chief 
of Engineers from funds appropriated pursuant to this Act. 
No such 
conveyance shall be made until funds have been appropriated pursuant 
to section 3 of this Act and until a license for the Markham Ferry 
project has been issued by the Federal Power Commission. In addi-
tion to the foregoing monetary contribution, the Secretary of the 
Army is authorized and directed to transfer engineering data includ-
ing maps, survey reports and data, drilling records and designs as 
will be of value to the Grand River Dam Authority in planning, con-
struction, maintenance, and operation of the Markham Ferry project. 
Approved July 6, 1954. 
Conveyance. 
Reimbursement. 
FPC Ucense. 
E n g i n e e r i n g 
data. 
Public Law 477 
CHAPTER 462 
AN ACT 
To amend section 67 of the National Defense Act, as amended, to provide for an 
active-duty status for all United States property and fiscal ofllcers. 
July 6, 1954 
[S.2217] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the third para-
graph of section 67 of the National Defense Act, as amended (32 
U. S. C. 49), is amended to read as follows: 
"PROPERTY AND FISCAL OFFICERS.—The Governor of each State and 
Territory and the Commanding General of the National Guard of the 
District of Columbia shall appoint, designate, or detail, subject to the 
approval of the Secretaries of the Army and Air Force, a qualified 
officer of the National Guard of the United States or the Air National 
Guard of the United States, who is an officer of the National Guard 
or Air National Guard of the State, Territory, or District of 
Columbia and who shall be the United States property and fiscal 
officer. The President may with the consent of the officer con-
cerned, if such officer is not on active duty, order him to active duty 
to serve as United States property and fiscal officer of the State, 
Territory, or the District of Columbia, for which appointed, desig-
nated or detailed, and, upon relief from assignment as United States 
property and fiscal officer, he shall revert to his National Guard or Air 
National Guard status. The United States property and fiscal officer 
shall receipt and account for all funds and property belonging to the 
United States in possession of the National Guard or Air National 
Guard of the State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, and shall 
make such returns and reports pertaining thereto as may be required 
by the appropriate Secretary. 
Before entering upon his duties as 
property and fiscal officer he shall be required to give good and 
sufficient bond to the United States, the amount thereof to be deter-
mined by the Secretaries of the Army and the Air Force, for the faith-
U. S. pro p er ty 
andfiscal officers. 
39 Stat. 200.