An Act to approve the amendatory repayment contract negotiated with the Huntley Project Irrigation District Montana to authorize its execution and for other purpose
PL 87-168 (S.1697), enacted 08/30/1961

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PUBLIC LAW 87.168-AUG. 30, 1961 
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shall be available for inspection as provided in this Act and for sur-
render to the United States Government pursuant to regulations of 
the Secretary. 
SEC. 14. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums Ap.p'op"'stionau-
as may be necessary to carry out the provisions oi this Act. 
SEC. 15. If a provision of this Act or the application of such pro- separability. 
vision to any person or circumstances shall be held invalid, the re-
mainder of the Act and the application of such provision to persons 
or circumstances other than those to which it is held invalid shall not 
be affected thereby. 
SEC. 16. Nothing in this Act or in regulations issued hereunder shall 
be construed to modify or amend the provisions of the Oil Pollution 
Act, 1924 (33 U.S.C. 431^37), or of section 89 of title 14, United 
^^ stat. 604. 
States Code. 
63 stat. 502. 
SEC. 17. This Act shall become effective upon the date of its enact- 
Effective date, 
ment or upon the date the United States becomes a party to the con-
vention, whichever is the later date. 
Approved August 30, 1961. 
Public Law 87-168 
AN ACT 
August 30, 1961 
To approve the amendatory repayment contract negotiated with the Huntley 
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Project Irrigation District, Montana, to authorize its execution, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Seriate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the contract i,^"^!®^ D
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with the Huntley Project Irrigation District, which was negotiated Mont. 
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by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to subsection (a) of section trSrtf^^'"*"* ^°'^' 
1 of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187) and approved 
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as to form by the Department of the Interior on November 20, 1959, 
is hereby approved for execution, and the Secretary is authorized to 
execute and perform the same on behalf of the United States. 
SEC. 2. The 1956 reclassification of lands of the Huntley Project 
Irrigation District is approved. 
SEC. 3. There shall be deducted from the total cost of the Huntley 
project and from the construction charge obligation of the Huntley 
Project Irrigation District, contingent upon execution of the contract 
with the Huntley Project Irrigation District, approved in section 1 
hereof, the amount of the unmatured construction charges against the 
two thousand five hundred and thirty acres found to be permanently 
unproductive by the 1956 reclassification of lands. 
SEC. 4. All costs and expenses incurred by the United States in 
negotiating and completing the contract approved under section 1 of 
this Act and in making the investigations in connection therewith 
shall not exceed the sum of $13,000, and shall, contingent upon the final 
confirmation and execution of that contract, be nonreimbursable and 
nonreturnable under the Federal reclamation laws. 
SEC. 5. This Act is declared to be a part of the Federal reclamation 
laws as those laws are defined in the Reclamation Project Act of 
1939, supra. 
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Approved August 30, 1961.