An Act to facilitate the construction of drainage works and other minor items on Federal reclamation and like projects.
PL 84-575 (H.R.6268), enacted 06/13/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 575-JUNE 13, 1956 
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research or development installation of one of the military depart-
ments of the United States or a contractor thereof and is considered 
by such military department to be an essential, nontemporary employee 
at such date. 
Such certificate shall be conclusive evidence to the 
Commissioner of the employment status of the mortgagor and of the 
mortgagor's need for housing. 
"(b) No mortgage shall be insured under this section unless the 
Secretary or his designee shall have certified to the Commissioner that 
the housing is necessary to provide adequate housing for such civilians 
employed in connection with such a research or development installa-
tion and that there is no present intention to substantially curtail the 
number of such civilian personnel assigned or to be assigned to such 
installation. 
Such certification shall be conclusive evidence to the 
Commissioner of the need for such housing but if the (Commissioner 
determines that insurance of mortgages on such housing is not an 
acceptable risk, he may require the Secretary to guarantee the Armed 
Services Housing Mortgage Insurance Fund from loss with respect to 
mortgages insured pursuant to this section. 
There are hereby author-
ized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to provide for 
payment to meet losses arising from such guaranty. 
"(c) The Commissioner may accept any mortgage for insurance 
under this section without regard to any requirement in any other 
section of this Act, that the project or property be economically sound 
or an acceptable risk. 
"(d) Any mortgagee under a mortgage insured under this section 
is entitled to the benefits of insurance as provided in section 204 (a) 
with respect to mortgages insured under section 203. 
"(e) The provisions of subsections (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), 
and (j) of section 204 shall apply to mortgages insured under this 
section except that as applicable to tliose mortgages: (1) all references 
to the 'Fund' or 'Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund' shall refer to the 
'Armed Services Housing Mortgage Insurance Fund' and (2) all 
references to section 203 shall refer to this section. 
"(f) The provisions of sections 801, 802, 803 (c), 803 (i), 803 (j), 
804 (a), 804 (b), and 807 and the provisions of section 803 (a) relating 
to the aggregate amount of all mortgages insured and the expiration 
date of the Commissioner's authority to insure under this title, shall 
be applicable to mortgages insured under this section." 
Approved June 13, 1956. 
June 13, 19S6 
[H. «?. 6268] 
Public Law 575 
CHAPTER 382 
AN ACT 
To facilitate the construction of drainage works and other minor items on 
Federal reclamation and like projects. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Houae of RepreHentatwes of the 
dr^na'^e^^rks^°'^ T/ni/^e^/ States of America in Congress assenibled^ That funds appro-
eon st ruction priated for the construction of irrigation works authorized to be 
funds. 
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undertaken pursuant to the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 
43use37i note. \^^ 1902^ 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary 
thereto), the Act of August 11, 1939 (53 Stat. 1418), as amended, or 
other Acts of Congress may, insofar as such funds are available for 
the construction of drainage facilities and other minor items, be 
utilized by the Secretary of the Interior to accomplish such work by 
contract, by force account or, notwithstanding any other law and sub-
ject only to such reasonable terms and conditions as the Secretary shall 
deem appropriate for the protection of the United States, by contract 
entered into with the repayment organization concerned whereby said 
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organization shall perform such work: Provided^ That in the event 
construction work to be accomplished by any one repayment organi-
zation^ pursuant to contract with the United States, exceeds a total 
cost of $200,000, such contract shall not be executed by the Secretary 
prior to the expiration of sixty calender days (which sixty days, how-
ever, shall not include days on which either the House of Representa-
tives or the Senate is not in session because of an adjournment of more 
than three days to a day certain) from the date on which it has been 
submitted to the Speaker of the House and the President of the 
Senate for reference to the appropriate Committees, except that such 
contract may be executed prior to expiration of such sixty days in 
any case in which both such (^ommittees approve said contract and 
notify the Secretary in writing of such approval. 
Approved June 13, 1956. 
Public Law 576 
CHAPTER 383 
AN ACT 
To amend section 303 of the Career Compensation Act of 1949 to authorize the 
payment of mileage allowances for overland travel by private conveyance 
outside the continental limits of the United States. 
June 13, 1956 
[H. R. 5268] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 303 of 
the Career Compensation Act of 1949 is amended by deleting in clause 
(3) of the fifth sentence thereof the words "for travel within the con-
tinental limits of the United States". 
Approved June 13, 1956. 
63 Stat. 813. 
37 u s e 253. 
Public Law 577 
CHAPTER 384 
AN ACT 
To provide for the conveyance of certain lands by the United States to the city 
of Muskogee, Oklahoma. 
June 13, 1956 
[H. R. 7679] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Adminis-
trator of Veterans' Affairs is authorized and directed to convey by 
quitclaim deed to the city of Muskogee, Oklahoma, all the right, title, 
and interest of the United States in and to a tract of land containing 
approximately eight and sixteen one-hundredths acres located north 
of the existing Veterans' Administration hospital reservation situate 
in Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma, likewise being a portion of 
certain lands conveyed to the United States by the city of Muskogee 
by warranty deed dated March 17, 1945, recorded in the office of the 
clerk of Muskogee County on June 23, 1945, in book 839, pages 432 to 
434, the exact courses and distances of the perimeter of which shall 
be determined and approved by the Administrator of Veterans' 
Affairs. 
The city of Muskogee shall pay the cost of surveys as may 
be required by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs in determining 
the required legal description. 
SEC. 2. There shall be reserved to the United States all minerals, 
including oil and gas, in the lands authorized for conveyance by sec-
tion 1, and the deed of conveyance shall contain such additional terms, 
conditions, reservations, and restrictions as may be determined by the 
Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to be necessary to protect the 
interests of the United States. 
Muskogee, Okla-
homa. 
Conveyance. 
Reservation.