An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the irrigation works comprising the Foster Creek division of the Chief Joseph Dam project, Washington
PL 83-540 (H.R.4854), enacted 07/27/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 540-JULY 27, 1954 
[68 STAT. 
nine degrees three minutes one hundred sixty-seven and one one-
sup ?, ^ ^520^ ^ ^ ^ hundredth feet along portion of Presidential Executive Order 10309, 
tract 1; thirty-eight degrees fifty-seven minutes twenty seconds 
ninety-six and seventy one-hundredths feet along same; three hundred 
and eight degrees forty-eight minutes thirty seconds twenty-five and 
ninety-eight one-hundredths feet along same; thirty-eight degrees 
forty-eight minutes thirty seconds four hundred seven and fifty-two 
one-hundredths feet along portion of United States Military Reserva-
tion Fort Armstrong (Presidential Executive Order 5487) and along 
portion of quarantine station site (Act of June 16,1949) ; one hundred 
and twenty-nine degrees no minutes one hundred ninety-four and 
forty-three one-hundredths feet along portion of quarantine station 
site (Act of June 16, 1949) ; two hundred and nineteen degrees no 
minutes five hundred four and twenty-eight one-hundredths feet 
along the southeast side of Channel Street to the point of beginning. 
Area two and eighteen one-hundredths acres; 
(b) Beginning at the north corner of this parcel of land, the west 
corner of the land described in governor's executive order 1081 (pier 
2) and on the southeasterly side of the Honolulu Harbor line, the 
coordinates of said point of beginning referred to Government Survey 
Triangulation Station "Punchbowl" being four thousand six hundred 
fifty-two and sixteen one-hundredths feet south and six thousand 
two hundred twenty-two and twenty-five one-hundredths feet west, 
and running by azimuths measured clockwise from true south: three 
hundred and nine degrees no minutes sixty feet along governor's exec-
utive order numbered 1081; thirty-nine degrees no minutes, twenty 
feet along portion of quarantine station site (Act of June 16, 1949); 
one hundred and twenty-nine degrees no minutes sixty feet along 
same; two hundred and nineteen degrees no minutes, twenty feet 
along the Honolulu Harbor line to the point of beginning. 
Area 
three one-hundredths acres. 
2. That land, now part of the Fort Armstrong Military Reserva-
tion, which was transferred by the Secretary of Labor to the control 
and jurisdiction of the Secretary of War (now Secretary of the Army) 
by letter dated December 16, 1939, pursuant to the Act of August 5, 
1939 (53 Stat. 1209, ch. 444). Area sixteen one-hundredths acre. 
Approved July 27, 1954. 
Public Law 540 
CHAPTER 585 
AN ACT 
July 27, 1954 
[H. R. 4854] 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the 
irrigation works comprising the Foster Creek division of the Chief Joseph Dam 
project, Washington. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
T)^m^T^et\iVh 
^'^^t^d States of America in Congress assembled^ That, as an initial 
Foster Creek di- step iu Supplementing the Act of July 17, 1952 (Public Law 577, 
tion/°j'J,'=°"^*'^'=" Eighty-second Congress), and in order to provide water for the irriga-
66 Stat. 753. 
^^^QJ^ QJ approximately six thousand acres of land along the Columbia 
and Okanogan Rivers in the vicinity of Chief Joseph Dam, Washing-
ton, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to construct, operate, 
and maintain the Foster Creek division of the Chief Joseph Dam proj-
ect substantially in accordance with the report of the Secretary of the 
Interior dated January 7, 1954, and printed as House Document Num-
bered 374, Eighty-third Congress. 
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SEC. 2. In the construction, operation and maintenance of the Foster 
Creek division, the Secretary shall be governed by the Federal rec-
lamation laws (Act of June 17,1902,32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory 
thereof or supplementary thereto) except that (a) the period provided 
in subsection (d), section 9, of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 
(53 Stat. 1187), for repayment of construction costs properly charge-
able to any block of lands and assigned to be repaid by the irrigators 
may be extended to fifty years, exclusive of a development period, from 
the time water is first delivered to that block or to as near that number 
of years as is consistent with the adoption and operation of a variable 
payment formula as hereinafter provided; (b) any repayment con-
tract entered into may provide that the amounts to be paid annually 
thereunder shall be determined in accordance with a formula, mutually 
agreeable to the parties, which reflects economic conditions pertinent 
to the irrigators payment capacity; and (c) all construction costs 
which are beyond the ability of the irrigators to repay as hereinbefore 
provided shall be charged to, and returnable to the reclamation fund 
from, net revenues derived from the sale of power from the Chief 
Joseph Dam project which are over and beyond those required to 
amortize the power investment in said project and to return interest 
on the unamortized balance thereof. Power and energy required for 
irrigation pumping for the Foster Creek division authorized shall be 
made available by the Secretary from the Chief Joseph Dam power-
plant and other Federal plants interconnected therewith at rates not 
to exceed the cost of such power and energy from the Chief Joseph 
Dam taking into account all costs of the dam, reservoir, and power-
plant which are determined by the Secretary under the provisions of 
the Federal reclamation laws to be properly allocable to such irriga-
tion pumping power and energy. 
SEC. 3. Reports on additional reclamation units in the vicinity of the 
Chief Joseph Dam project proposed to be constructed as units of the 
project shall be submitted by the Secretary from time to time in 
accordance with the provisions of the Act of July 17, 1952, supra. 
SEC. 4. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated out of any 
moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $4,798,000 plus 
or minus such amounts, if any, as may be justified by reason of ordinary 
fluctuations in the cost of said type of construction without endanger-
ing the economic feasibility of the Foster Creek division of the Chief 
Joseph Dam project, Washington. 
Approved July 27, 1954. 
43 use 371 note. 
43 u s e 485h. 
Reports to eon-
gress. 
Appropriation. 
Public Law 541 
CHAPTER 586 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to convey a certain parcel of land to 
the city of Clifton, New Jersey. 
July 27,1954 
[H. R. 4928] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary 
of Agriculture is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed 
to the city of Clifton, New Jersey, upon payment by said city of 75 
per centum of the appraised fair market value therefor as determined 
by the Secretary of Agriculture, all the right, title, and interest of the 
United States in and to a parcel of land comprising the westerly 
portion of the United States Animal Quarantine Station, Clifton, 
New Jersey, lying along the southerly side of Colfax Avenue and 
containing approximately fourteen and one-quarter acres more or less, 
subject to the reservations, conditions, and restrictions of this Act. 
Clifton, N. J. 
Conveyance.