An Act to amend the act of July 4, 1955, relating to the construction of irrigation distribution systems.
PL 84-520 (H.R.8535), enacted 05/14/1956

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May 14, 1956 
[H. R. 8535] 
L a n d 
transfers 
to U. S. 
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PUBLIC LAW 520-MAY 14, 1956 
Public Law 520 
CHAPTER 268 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act of July 4, 1955, relating to the constrnotion of irrigation 
distribution systems. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America 
in Congress assembled^ That section 3 tiibutio/sysremuT 
of the Act of July 4, 1955 (69 Stat. 245) is hereby amended to read 
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as follows: 
"SEC. 3. The Secretary shall require, as conditions to any such loan, lo^"^^*^**"' "' 
that the borrower contribute in money or materials, labor, lands, or 
interests in land, computed at their reasonable value, a portion, not 
in excess of 10 per centum, of the construction cost of the distribution 
system (including all costs of acquiring lands and interests in land), 
that the plans for the system be in accord with sound engineering 
practices and be such as will achieve the purposes for which the system 
was authorized, and that the borrower agree to account in full in 
regard to all disbursements of borrowed funds and to return at once 
for application toward amortization of the loan all funds which are 
not expended in the construction of the distribution system. Prior to 
the consummation of any loan under this Act, the borrower shall 
also be required to transfer to the Xinited States any lands or interests 
in land which it then holds and which the Secretary finds are required 
for the construction, operation, and maintenance of the distribution 
system and to agree to transfer to the United States any lands or in-
terests in land which it may" thereafter acquire and which the Secre-
tar}' may find are required for this purpose and distribution works 
constructed, in whole or in ])art, with moneys lent under this Act for 
the construction thereof. 
Title to all sucli lands, interests in land 
and distribution Avorks shall remain in the United States until the 
loan is repaid. 
Every organization contracting for repayment of a 
loan under this Act shall operate and maintain its distribution works 
in conformity with reasonable contractual requirements determined 
to be appropriate for the protection of the United States. When full 
repayment has been made to the United States, the Secretary shall 
relinquish all claims under said contracts and sha.ll retransfer to the 
borrower title to the works and all lands and interests in land which 
were transferred by it to the United States. The head of any depart-
ment or agency of the Government within whose administrative juris-
diction are lands owned by the United States the use of which is 
reasonably necessary for the construction, operation, and maintenance 
of distribution works under this Act may grant to a borrower or 
prospective borrower under this Act revocable permission for the use 
thereof in like manner as under the Acts of March 3,1891, sees. 18-21. 
26 Stat. 1101, as amended (43 U. S. C, sees. 946-949), January 21,1895^ 
28 Stat. 635, as amended (43 U. S. C , sec. 956), February 15, 1901, 31 
Stat. 790, as amended (16 U. S. C, sees. 79, 522, 43 U. S. C , sec. 959), 
February 1,1905, 33 Stat. 628 (16 U. S. C , sec. 524), March 1,1921,41 
Stat. 1194 (43 U. S. C, sec. 950), May 9, 1941, 55 Stat. 183 (43 U. S. C , 
sec. 931a), July 24, 1946, sec. 7, 60 Stat. 643, as amended (43 U. S. C, 
sec. 931b), May 31, 1947, 61 Stat. 124 (38 U. S. C, sec. Hi), Febru-
ary 5, 1948, 62 Stat. 17 (25 U. S. C , sees. 323-328), or September 3, 
1954, 68 Stat. 1146 (43 U. S. C , sees. 931c-931d), or any other similar 
Act which is applicable to the lands involved: Provided^ That no 
such permission shall be granted in the case of lands being administered 
for national park, national monument, or wildlife purposes. No bene-
fits or privileges under the Federal reclamation laws, including repay-
ment provisions, shall be denied an irrigation distribution system 
Right »-of-way« 
Restrictions. 
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because sucli system has been constructed pursuant to this Act. 
The 
provisions of this Act shall apply only to irrigation purposes, including 
incidental domestic and stock water, and loans hereunder shall be 
interest free. 
Nothing in this Act shall be construed to repeal or limit 
the procedural and substantive requirements of section 8 of the Act of 
June 17,1902." 
Approved May 14, 1956. 
May 14, 1956 
[S. 637] 
Public Law 521 
CHAPTER 269 
AN ACT 
To provide for the conveyance of Camp Livingston, Camp Beauregard, and 
Esler Field, Louisiana, to tlie State of Louisiana, and for other purposes. 
Camp Livingston, 
etc. 
Conveyance 
to 
Louisiana. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United /States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary 
of the Army is authorized and directed, if he determines that the real 
property comprising Camp Livingston, (^amp Beauregard, and Esler 
Field, or any part thereof, is available for conveyance to the State 
of Louisiana for the training and support of the National Guard of 
Louisiana, to convey all the right, title, and interest of the United 
States in such property, together with improvements thereon and 
appurtenances thereunto belonging, to the State of Louisiana by quit-
claim deed, without monetary consideration therefor, but upon condi-
tion that it shall be used for the aforesaid purposes and if such real 
property shall ever cease to be used for such purposes, all the right, 
title, and interest in and to such real property shall revert to and 
become the property of the United States which shall have the imme-
diate right of entry thereon, and to be further subject to the reserva-
tion by the United States of all mineral rights, including oil and 
gas; the right of reentry and use by the United States in the event 
of need therefor during a national emergency; and such other reser-
vations, restrictions, terms, and conditions as the Secretary determines 
to be necessary to properly protect the interests of the United States. 
SEC. 2. The cost of any surveys necessary as an incident of the 
conveyance authorized herein shall be borne by the State of Tx)uisiana. 
Approved May 14, 1956. 
May 14, 1956 
[S.2267] 
Public Law 522 
CHAPTER 270 
AN ACT 
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain public lands in the State 
of Nevada to the city of Henderson, Nevada. 
H e n d e r s o n , 
Nevada. 
Conveyance. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary 
of the Interior shall issue to the city of Henderson, Nevada, upon the 
payment by the city into the Treasury of the United States, not more 
than five years after the Secretary has notified the city of the purchase 
price, of an amount equal to the fair market value of the lands to be 
conveyed as determined by the Secretary upon the appraisal of those 
lands, a patent for the following-described lands, situated in the State 
of Nevada and comprising approximately six thousand eight hundred 
and fifty-nine acres (all range references are to the Mount Diablo 
base and meridian) : 
(1) All of sections 2, 3, 4, and 24, township 22 south, range 62 east. 
(2) All of section 33, township 21 south, range 63 east.