An Act to approve contracts negotiated with the Gering and Fort Laramie Irrigation District, the Goshen Irrigation District, and the Pathfinder Irrigation District, and to authorize their execution; and to authorize the execution of contracts with individual water right contractors on the North Platte Federal reclamation project, and for other purposes
PL 82-578 (H.R.6723), enacted 07/17/1952

PUBLIC LAW 578-JULY 17, 1952 
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SEC. 4, Nothing in this Act shall modify in any way the require-
ments and provisions of existing laws with respect to the availability 
of funds for construction and operation and maintenance of the Chief 
Joseph Dam and power plant. 
Approved July 17, 1952. 
July 17, 1952 
[H. R. 6723] 
Public Law 578 
CHAPTER 926 
AN ACT 
To approve contracts negotiated with the Gering and Fort Laramie Irrigation 
District, the Goshen Irrigation District, and the Pathfinder Irrigation District, 
and to authorize their execution; and to authorize the execution of contracts 
with individual water right contractors on the North Platte Federal reclama-
tion project, and for other purposes. 
Approval of cer-
tain irrigation coi>-
tracts. 
53 Stat. 1192. 
43 u s e 485f. 
N o r t h 
P l a t t e 
Federal r e c l a m a -
tion project. 
Be it sTiacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the contract 
with the Gering and Fort Laramie Irrigation District, which was 
approved by the district electors on November 15, 1951; the contract 
with the Goshen Irrigation District, which was approved by the dis-
strict electors on November 15, 1951; and the contract with the Path-
finder Irrigation District, which was approved by the district electors 
on November 15, 1951, all of which have been negotiated by the 
Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the Secretary), 
pursuant to subsection (a) of section 7 of the Reclamation Project 
Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187; 43 U. S. C. 485), are hereby approved and 
the Secretary is hereby authorized to execute them on behalf of the 
United States. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary is hereby authorized to execute on behalf of 
the United States— 
(a) contracts with individual water right contractors on the 
North Platte Federal reclamation project whose lands are not 
included within the boundaries of a project irrigation district 
which contracts shall provide, among other things, (i) that said 
water user shall relinquish his interest in the present and poten-
tial power revenues of or related to the North Platte project; 
(ii) that the power acquisition consideration for each contrac-
tor, which shall be the proportionate part of $6,636,873 repre-
sented by the ratio of the contractor's irrigable acreage to the 
total irrigable acreage of the project, as determined by the Secre-
tary, shall be applied as a credit upon the water user s obligation 
to the United States for construction charges and for future 
charges for operation and maintenance of project 
works; 
(iii) that the miscellaneous revenues accruing to the benefit of 
the water user, pursuant to subsections I and J of section 4 of 
the Act of December 5,1924 (43 Stat. 672, 703), shall be retained 
by the United States for the establishment and maintenance of a 
fund in an amount fixed by the Secretary to be used by the Secre-
tary for replacement and operation and maintenance of project 
works operated and maintained by the United States. 
SEC. 3. The authority granted in section 2 of this Act to make con-
tracts shall continue for five years from the effective date of this Act, 
but the power acquisition consideration provided in section 2 of this 
Act for the individual water right contractors shall be reduced by 
whatever amount of net power revenues shall have accrued to the 
benefit of such individual water right contractors after June 30, 1950, 
by virtue of their not having previously relinquished their respective 
interests in said power revenues. 
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SEC. 4. Miscellaneous revenues accruing pursuant to subsections I 
and J of section 4 of the Act of December 5, 1924, on behalf of those 
who have contracted with the United States pursuant to this Act shall 
be deposited in a special deposit account in the Treasury Department, 
and such revenues may be expended, as in such contracts provided, 
for the replacement of the project works operated and maintained by 
the United States and to supplement funds advanced by the water 
users to meet annual costs of operation and maintenance of such works. 
SEC. 5. This Act is declared to be a part of the Federal reclamation 
laws as these are defined in the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 
Stat. 1187). 
SEC. 6. No extension, enlargement, or addition of any hydroelectric 
plant, transmission line, or accompanying works on the Gering and 
Fort Laramie Irrigation District, the Goshen Irrigation District, the 
Pathfinder Irrigation District, or Northport Irrigation District shall 
be built or contracted for until such extension, enlargement, or addi-
tion have been authorized by Congress. 
Approved July 17, 1952. 
Deposit of reve-
nues. 
43 u s e 485k. 
H y d r o e l e c trie 
plants, etc. 
Public Law 579 
CHAPTER 927 
AN ACT 
To extend the duration of the Water Pollution Control Act. 
July 17, 1952 
[H.R. 6856] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the words "each 
of the five fiscal years during the period beginning July 1, 1948, and 
ending June 30, 1953" where they occur in section 7 and subsections 
(a), (c), (d), and (e) of section 8 of the Water Pollution Control Act 
(Public Law 845, Eightieth Congress), are hereby amended to read 
"each of the eight fiscal years during the period beginning July 1,1948, 
and ending June 30, 1956". 
Approved July 17, 1952. 
62 Stat. 1159. 
33 u s e 
4 6 6 f , 
466g. 
Public Law 580 
CHAPTER 928 
AN ACT 
To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 with respect to the importation of the feathers of 
wild birds, and for other purposes. 
July 17, 1952 
[H. R. 7594] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That paragraph 
1518 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U. S. C, sec. 1001, par. 1518) is 
hereby amended by inserting " ( a ) " after "1518."; and by striking 
out the two provisos at the end of the first subparagraph and all the 
second subparagraph, and inserting in lieu thereof the following new 
subparagraphs: 
"(b) Except as provided in subparagraphs (c) and (d), the im-
portation of the feathers or skin of any bird is hereby prohibited. 
Such prohibition shall apply to the feathers or skin of any bird— 
" (1) whether raw or processed ; 
" (2) whether the whole plumage or skin or any part of either-
"(3) whether or not attached to a whole bird or any part 
thereof; and 
" (4) whether or not forming part of another article. 
"(c) Subparagraph (b) shall not apply— 
T a r i f f A c t of 
1930, amendment. 
46 Stat. 661. 
I m p o r t a tion of 
feathers. 
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