An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Spokane Valley project, Washington and Idaho, under Federal reclamation laws.
PL 86-276 (S.994), enacted 09/16/1959

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PUBLIC LAW 86-276-SEPT. 16, 1959 
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United States Code, when projects authorized therein are certified as 
important to the national defense by the Secretary of Defense. 
SEC. 108. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may be used 
to begin construction on new bases for w^hich specific appropriations 
have not been made. 
SEC. 109. During the current fiscal year, appropriations available 
for construction of family quarters for personnel shall not be obligated 
for such construction at a cost per family unit in excess of $22,000 
on housing units for generals or equivalent; $19,800 on housing units 
for colonels or equivalent; $17,600 on housing units for majors and 
lieutenant colonels, or equivalent; $15,400 on housing units for second 
lieutenants, lieutenants, captains, and warrant officers, or equivalent; 
or $13,200 on housing units for enlisted personnel, except that when 
such units are constructed outside the continental United States or in 
Alaska, the average cost per unit of all such units shall not exceed 
$32,000 and in no event shall the individual cost exceed $40,000, and 
except that the Secretary of the Army may provide 156 units of 
family housing for company grade officers at the United States Mili-
tary Academy at a unit cost of not more than $20,300 per family unit; 
the family unit costs for family housing including land authorized 
to be purchased by section 103 of the Act of August 30, 1957 (Public 
Law 85-241), may exceed by not more than 15 per centum the respec-
tive limitations on such costs contained in this Act. 
SEC. 110. No part of the funds contained in this Act shall be used 
to incur obligations for the planning, design, or construction of facil-
ities for an Air Force Academy the total cost of which will be in 
excess of $139,797,000. 
SEC. 111. No part of the funds provided in this Act shall be used 
for purchase of land or land easements in excess of 100 per centum 
of the value as determined by the Corps of Engineers or the Bureau 
of Yards and Docks, except: (a) w^here there is a determination of 
value by a Federal court, (b) purchases negotiated by the Attorney 
General or his designee, and (c) where the estimated value is less than 
$25,000. 
SEC. 112. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may be used 
to make payments under contracts for any project in a foreign country 
unless the Secretary of Defense or his designee, after consultation 
with the Secretary of the Treasury or his designee, certifies to the 
Congress that the use, by purchase from the Treasury, of currencies 
of such country acquired pursuant to law is not feasible for the 
purpose, stating the reason therefor. 
SEC. 113. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used 
for the construction of a combat operations center for the North 
American Air Defense Command at a cost in excess of $29,000,000. 
SEC. 114. This Act may be cited as the "Military Construction 
Appropriation Act, 1960". 
Approved September 16, 1959. 
72 Stat. 909. 
New bases. 
Housing for offi-
cers. 
71 Stat. 534. 
42 u s e I594h. 
Short title. 
Public Law 86-276 
AN ACT 
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September 16, 1959 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain 
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the Spokane Valley project, Washington and Idaho, under Federal reclama-
tion laws. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and Hou.^e of Repre-sentativefi of the 
United States of Am erica in Congrens nssemhled., That, for the pur- 
Spokane vaiiey 
pose of providing water for the irrigation of approximately ten ZionpJo^elt^aT^-
Idaho. 
Construction. 
43 use 371 note. 
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thousand three hundred acres of land alon<i and near the Spokane 
River in the eastern part of the State of Washington and the Avestern 
pairt of the State of Idaho, the Secretary of the Inter-ior is author-
ized to construct, operate, and maintain the Spokane Valley Federal 
reclamation project. 
The principal engineering features of said 
project ehall consist of wells, pumps, storage facilities, and distribu-
tion systems. 
SEC. 2. In constructing, operating, and maintaining the Spokane 
Valley project, the Secretary shall be governed by the Federal recla-
mation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory 
thereof or supplementary thereto), except that (1) he may extend the 
base period of any contract entered into under section 9, subsection 
(d), of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187, 1193; 43 
U.S.C. 485h(d)), as amended, to not more than lifty years, exclusive of 
a development period if he finds such to be proper, (2) the amount to 
be repaid during said base period shall be not less than $4,400,000, 
(3) the remaining reimbursable cost of the project, except for such 
parts thereof as may be returned under temporary water supply con-
tracts or from other sources, shall be accounted for in the same manner 
as provided in item (c) of section 2 of the Act of July 27, 1954 (68 
Stat. 568), and (4) he may, upon the request of any contracting entity, 
transfer to it the care, operation, and maintenance of those project 
works which serve it alone or, upon the request of two or more con-
tracting entities, transfer to them or to any agency designated by them 
and satisfactory to him the care, operation, and maintenance of those 
project works which serve them, all on terms and conditions satis-
factory to him. 
Appropriation, 
gj,,(, 3 There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for construc-
tion of the Spokane Valley project the sum of $5,100,000 plus or minus 
such amounts, if any, as may be justified by reason of ordinary fluctua-
tions in the costs of construction as indicated by engineering cost 
indexes applicable to the type of construction involved herein. There 
;'re filso authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be required 
for the operation and maintenance of said works. 
Approved September 16, 1959. 
Public Law 86-277 
September 16, 1959 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
^^' ^ -' To authorize the issuance of a sold medal in honor of the late Professor Robert 
H. Goddard. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the, United 
Dr, Robert H, ^fates of AnieHca in Congress assenwled., That in recognition of the 
Me<i^i,' 
great, creative achievements of the late Doctor Robert H, Goddard, 
and his historic pioneering research on space rockets, missiles, and jet 
propulsion, the chairmen of the House Committee on Science and 
Astronautics and the Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space 
Sciences, on behalf of the Congress, are authorized to present to the 
family of the late Doctor Robert H, Goddard an appropriate gold 
medai. 
For such purpose, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized 
and directed to cause to be struck a gold medal with suitable emblems, 
devices, and inscriptions to be determined by the chairmen of the 
House Committee on Science and Astronautics and the Senate Corn-
Appropriation, 
mittee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, 
There is hereby author-
ized to be appropriated the sum of $2,500 for this purpose.