An Act to amend sections 220 and 221 (d) of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920
PL 84-899 (H.R.7552), enacted 08/01/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 899-AUG. 1, 1956 
Public Law 899 
CHAPTER 855 
AN ACT 
August 1, 1956 
To amend sections 220 and 221 (d) of the Hawaiian Homes CJommission Act, 1920. 
CH. R. 75521 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 220, conm'w^."''™*' 
Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended (42 Stat. 114, 62 stat. 393. 
48 U. S. C. 714), be further amended by adding a new paragraph 
thereto to read as follows: 
"To enable the construction of irrigation projects which will service 
Hawaiian homelands, either exclusively or in conjunction with other 
lands served by such projects, the commission is authorized, with the 
approval of the governor, to grant to the Hawaiian Irrigation Author-
ity, or to any otlier agency of the government of the Territory or the 
United States undertaking the construction and operation of such 
irrigation projects, licenses for rights-of-way for pipelines, tunnels, 
ditcnes, flumes, and other water conveying facilities, reservoirs and 
other storage facilities, and for the development and use of water 
appurtenant to Haw^aiian homelands; to exchange available lands 
for public lands, as provided in section 204 (4) of this Act, for sites 
for reservoirs and subsurface water development wells and shafts; to 
request any such irrigation agency to organize irrigation projects for 
Hawaiian homelands and to transfer irrigation facilities constructed 
by the commission to any such irrigation agency; to agree to pay the 
tolls and assessments made against community pastures for irrigation 
water supplied to such pastures; and to agree to pay the costs of con-
struction of projects constructed for Hawaiian homelands at the 
request of the commission, in the event the assessments paid by the 
homesteaders upon lands are not sufficient to pay such costs: Provided^ 
That licenses for rights-of-way for the purposes and in the manner 
specified in this section may be granted for a term of years longer than , 
is r^uired for amortization of the costs of the project or projects 
requiring use of such rights-of-way only if authority for such longer 
grant is approved by an Act of the Legislature of the Territory of 
Hawaii. 
Such payments shall be made from, and be a charge against 
the Hawaiian home-operating fund." 
SEC. 2. Section 221 (d), Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920 o^**' °2^«f"-
(42 Stat. 114, 48 U. S. C. 715 (d)), is hereby amended by deleting '"•"*-<'^««d-«*«'• 
therefrom the w^ords "Government-owned water upon the island of 
Molokai, and" appearing therein between the words "charge" and 
"Government-owned", and by deleting therefrom the words "any of 
the water upon the island of Molokai, and" appearing therein between 
the words "charge" and "any". 
SEC. 3. Said section 221 (d), Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 
1920, is hereby further amended by adding a new paragraph thereto, 
to read as follows: 
"Any funds which may be appropriated by Congress as a grant-in-
aid for the construction of an irrigation and water utilization system 
on the island of Molokai designed to serve Hawaiian Homes Commis-
sion lands, and which are not required to be reimbursed to the Fed-
eral Government, shall be deemed to be payment in advance by the 
Hawaiian Homes Commission and lessees of the Hawaiian Homes 
Commission of charges to be made to them for the construction of such 
system and shall be credited against such charges when made." 
SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval. 
Effectivity. 
Approved August 1, 1956.