An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into an additional contract with the Yuma County Water Users Association with respect to payment of construction charges on the Valley division, Yuma reclamation project, Arizona, and for other purposes
PL 84-633 (S.2202), enacted 06/29/1956

70 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 633-JUNE 29, 1956 
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In the construction of any Government-owned industrial facilities, in 
the rendition of any Government financial assistance for the construc-
tion, expansion, or improvement of any industrial facilities, and in 
the procurement of g^oods and services, under this or any other Act, 
each department and agency of the Executive Branch shall apply, 
under the coordination of tlie OiRce of Defense Mobilization, when 
practicable and consistent with existing law and the desirability for 
maintaining a sound economy, the principle of the geographical dis-
persal of such facilities in the interest of national defense. 
Nothing 
contained in this paragraph shall preclude the use of existing indus-
trial facilities."' 
SEC. 5. Effective July 1, 1956, section 712 (e) of the Defense Pro-
duction Act of 1950, as amended, is amended to read as follows: 
"(e) The expenses of the committee under this section, which shall 
not exceed $65,000 in any fiscal year, shall be paid from the contingent 
fund of the House of Representatives upon vouchers signed by the 
Chairman or Vice Chairman." 
Approved June 29, 1956. 
50 U S C 
2162. 
Public Law 633 
CHAPTER 475 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into an additional contract 
with the Yuma County Water Users' Association with respect to payment of 
construction charges on the Valley division, Yuma reclamation project, Ari-
zona, and for other purposes. 
June 29, 1956 
[S.2202] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary ^^"6" us^ers^'yvs-
of the Interior, hereinafter in this Act referred to as the Secretary, is sociauon, Ariz, 
hereby authorized to enter into a contract with the Yuma County Water 
Contract. 
Users* Association, an Arizona corporation providing for the collec-
tion and retention by the association of all construction charge pay-
ments made subsequent to the date of such contract under water-right 
applications on the Valley division of the Yuma reclamation project 
outstanding on the date of said contract and water-right applications 
thereafter approved on said division and the release of the association 
from its guaranty to the United States of all amounts then due or 
thereafter to become due on said applications in consideration of the 
assumption by the association of the general repayment obligation 
defined in section 2 hereof payable to the United States without 
interest in annual installments not smaller than the aggregate of the 
payments which, in the opinion of the Secretary, would have become 
due pursuant to the provisions of said water-right applications. 
SEC. 2. The general repayment obligation payable under the contract 
authorized by section 1 of this Act shall be ascertained by the Secre-
tary (a) by adding to $165,605.46 any operation and maintenance costs 
incurred on or after January 1,1955, which are unpaid on the date of 
the contract, (b) by subtracting from the sum thereof (i) any pay-
ments under water-right applications heretofore or hereafter ap-
proved by the Secretary on the Valley division which have become due 
and payable and which have been received beginning with January 1, 
1955, and prior to the date of the contract, and (ii) net profits earned 
on or after January 1,1955, and prior to June 30 preceding the date of 
the contract which are determined by the Secretary to be properly 
allocable to the Valley division, all as provided in section 3 of this 
Act, and (c) by adjusting the difference between (a) and (b) to 
reflect an appropriate share, as determined by the Secretary, of any 
Basis for repaj^ 
Southern Pacific 
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profits. 
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amount by which the cost to the Government of a certain trestle to be 
constructed by the Southern Pacific Raihvaj^ Company across the Yuma 
Main Canal pursuant to the contract dated April 15, 1912, between it 
and the United States varies from $175,306. The Secretary is hereby 
authorized to transfer to the association, (a) those structures covered 
by agreement between the United States and the association dated 
April 1, 1953, and bearing contract numbered 14-06-303-490, as 
amended March 29, 1955, and a twenty-four-stall garage in the vicin-
ity of said structures in consideration of the cash payment or addition 
to the said general repayment obligation of the net book cost of 
$15,000 less the aggregate of payments made by the association to the 
United States prior to the date of such transfer under said agreement 
and under agreement between the United States and the association 
dated November 6,1952, and bearing contract numbered 14-06-303-79; 
and (b) the buildings located at 105,115, and 121 North Fifth Avenue, 
respectively, and at 460 First Street, within the exterior boundaries 
of the city of Yuma, Arizona, in consideration of the cash payment or 
addition to said general repayment obligation of the further sum of 
$3,756.87: Provided^ That such transfers shall not include title to the 
lands on which any such structures or buildings are located. 
SEC. 3. The net profits to be deducted pursuant to section 2 hereof 
shall constitute the portion determined by the Secretary to be allo-
cable to said Valley Division of such profits derived to and including 
the June 30 immediately preceding the date of said contract from the 
following: leases, permits, and other arrangements for use of project 
hinds and other project property within the division, the sale or use of 
townsites within the division, the sale of small tracts within the division 
pursuant to the Act of March 31, 1950 (64 Stat. 39, 43 U. S. C , sees. 
o75b-375f), and the furnishing of water or water service to other than 
water-right applicants from tlie irrigation works of the division. 
The 
contract authorized by section 1 hereof may also provide that for each 
subsequent fiscal year that portion of the net profits derived from the 
above-mentioned sources as well as the net profits from the Siphon 
Drop Powerplant after reserves for replacements, and/or depreciation 
and/or other appropriate purposes determined by the Secretary to be 
allocable to the division shall be credited annually, first on account of 
general repayment installments under said contract to become payable 
for the calendar year next following such fiscal year and second on 
account of operation and maintenance charges to become payable by the 
association to the United States for such calendar year, including but 
not limited to advance payments by the association for operation and 
maintenance of Siphon Drop Powerplant and payments for any re-
habilitation work undertaken by the United States on behalf of the 
division. 
There is authorized to be transferred and deposited from 
time to time to the credit of the operation and maintenance appropria-
tion for the Bureau of Reclamation from project revenues deposited 
in the reclamation fund amounts equal to the credits so applied on 
account of operation and maintenance charges payable by the associa-
tion to the United States. The amounts thus credited to the operation 
and maintenance appropriation may be expended for the same objects 
and in the same manner as sums advanced by the association for the 
operation and maintenance of works retained by the United States: 
Provided^ That if the Secretary determines that the portion of such 
net profits allocable to the division and available for svich credit during 
any calendar year exceeds the aggregate of the general repayment in-
stallment, if any, and the operation and maintenance charge payable 
by the association to the United States, he may pay the amount of such 
excess to the association from the reclamation fund. 
Approved June 29, 1956.