An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to execute a contract with the Tule Lake Irrigation District California, and for other purposes.
PL 84-877 (H.R.12034), enacted 08/01/1956

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turning from the place of attendance: Provided^ That in lieu of the 
mileage allowance provided for herein, witnesses who are required to 
travel between the Territories and possessions, or to and from the con-
tinental United States, shall be entitled to the actual expenses of 
travel at the lowest first-class rate available at the time of reservation 
for passage, by means of transportation employed: Promded 
further^ 
That this section shall not appl}^ to Alaska. 
"When a witness is detained in prison for want of security for his 
appearance, he shall be entitled, in addition to his subsistence, to a 
compensation of $1 per day." 
Approved August 1, 1956. 
Public Law 876 
CHAPTER 827 
AN ACT 
To amend section 104, title 4, United States Code. 
August 1, 195(> 
[H. R. 11254] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 104 of 
title 4, United States Code, is hereby amended by adding at the end 
thereof the following new subsection, to be designated subsection (c) 
and to read as follows: 
"(c) As used in this section, the term 'Territory' shall include 
Guam." 
Approved August 1, 1956. 
T a x on m ot o r 
fuel, 
61 Stat. 641. 
Public Law 877 
CHAPTER 828 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to execute a contract with the Tule 
Lake Irrigation District, California, and for other purposes. 
August 1,1956 
[H. R. 12034] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That the Secretary 
of the Interior is authorized to execute, on behalf of the United States, 
a repayment contract with the Tule Lake Irrigation District, Cali-
fornia, substantially in the form in which said contract was negotiated 
pursuant to section 7 of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 
1187, 1192, 43 U. S. C , sec. 485f) and approved at an election of the 
district held on July 2,1956. 
SEC. 2. In aid of the administration of said contract and for other 
purposes— 
(a) credits may be given and payments made to the Tule Lake 
Irrigation District and the Klamath Irrigation District in accord-
ance with said contract without further appropriation but, not-
withstanding any other provision of the Federal reclamation laws 
(Act of June 17,1902 (32 Stat. 388), and Acts amendatory thereof 
or supplementary thereto), said credits and payments shall be the 
only credits given or payments made to the Tule Lake Irrigation 
District. 
(b) repayment of those portions of the costs of the works of 
the Klamath project heretofore or hereafter constructed serving 
lands within the boundaries of the Tule Lake Irrigation District 
which are allocated by the Secretary to said lands shall be ac-
counted for by application of the construction charge payments 
required to be made under the aforesaid contract and, to the ex-
tent to which the payments so required do not account in full for 
Tule Lake Irriga-
t l o n 
D i s t r i c t , 
Calif. 
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said allocation, by application of (a) net revenues heretofore re-
ceived from the sources described in article 4 of said contract, (b) 
those net revenues hereafter received from the same sources which 
are in excess of the amounts to be credited or paid to the district 
in accordance with said article, and (c) other net project revenues 
heretofore or hereafter received from project sources which are 
properly creditable to the Tule Lake division under the Federal 
reclamation laws. 
(c) the lands of the Klamath project, presently within its Tule 
Lake division, which lie in Siskiyou County, California, west of 
range 4 east. Mount Diablo meridian, and in the vicinity of Lower 
Klamath Lake, including lands heretofore uncovered by the 
changing level of that lake, are hereby severed from said division, 
and appropriate portions of the costs of the works of the Klamath 
project heretofore or hereafter constructed which serve said lands 
shall be allocated by the Secretary to those lands. Any repay-
ment contract entered into under the Federal reclamation laws 
with respect to them shall require water users thereon to assume 
such equitable share of said allocation as is within their repay-
ment ability. 
Construction costs, if any, in excess of that amount 
shall be accounted for by the application of net revenues derived 
after December 31, 1942, from the leasing of Government-owned 
lands in the area aforesaid. 
Nothing contained in this subsec-
tion shall authorize the levying or collection of charges on account 
of project construction on lands utilized by the Fish and Wildlife 
Service in any national wildlife refuge. 
Any project construc-
tion costs assigned by the Secretary to such refuge lands shall be 
nonreimbursable. 
(d) the allocations provided for in subsections (b) and (c) of 
this section shall extend to all past and future expenditures except 
those for which special provision was made by section 15 of the 
Act of May 25,1926 (44 Stat. 636, 639). 
Repeals. 
(e) the proviso attached to the item in the Interior Department 
Appropriation Act, 1941, appropriating funds for construction of 
the Klamath project (54 Stat. 406, 436), is repealed. 
Section 2, 
subsection (d), of the Act of June 17,1944 (58 Stat. 279, 43 U. S. 
C , sec. 612) is repealed, but this repeal shall not affect the appli-
cation of net revenues received prior to January 1, 1943, which 
was made by the second sentence thereof. 
(f) the Secretary is authorized to withdraw any public notice 
heretofore issued on the Klamath project which is applicable to 
lands of the Tule Lake division. 
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^^^- ^' ^^^ rcvcuues of the Tulc Lake division which are derived 
mation fund. 
from sources other than those described in subsections (a), (b), and 
(c) of section 2 of this Act or which, although derived from said 
sources, are in excess of the amounts required for the purposes therein 
stated, shall be covered into the reclamation fund for application, to 
the extent necessary, in aid of divisions or units of the Klamath project, 
including lands within the Tule Lake Irrigation District, hereafter 
authorized for construction pursuant to law. 
SEC. 4. Nothing contained in this Act or in the aforesaid contract 
shall be construed to affect the homesteading of the now unentered 
public lands within the Tule Lake Irrigation District as promptly as 
the United States may deem desirable consistent with other authorized 
uses, but the Secretary shall, in the meantime, continue the leasing of 
public lands to provide adequate funds for the purposes of this Act and 
said contract and to prepare and make said lands available for the 
designated purposes. 
Approved August 1, 1956. 
Leases.