An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Arbuckle reclamation projects, Oklahoma, and for other purposes
PL 87-594 (H.R.23), enacted 08/24/1962

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PUBLIC LAW 87-594-AUG. 24, 1962 
395 
(c) Should the right to exercise such review be declined, or should 
no such review be sought within the time stated in the rules •promul-
gated by the Commission, then the action of any such division of the 
Commission, individual Commissioner, hearing examiner, employee, 
or employee board, shall, for all purposes, including appeal or review 
thereof, be deemed the action of the Commission. 
SEC. 2. In addition to the functions transferred by the provisions of 
Reorganization Plan Numbered 10 of 1950 (64 Stat. 1265), there are 
hereby transferred from the Commission to the Chairman of the Com-
mission the functions of the Commission with respect to the assign-
ment of Commission personnel, including Commissioners, to perform 
such functions as may have been delegated by the Commission to 
Commission personnel, including Commissioners, pursuant to section 1. 
Approved August 20, 1962. 
5 u s e 1332-15. 
Public Law 87-593 
AN ACT 
August 20, 1962 
To amend the Act of August 7,1946, relating to the District of Columbia hospital 
[H. R. 12547] 
center, to extend the time during which appropriations may be made for the 
purposes of that Act. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the^ 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 6 of 
the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the establishment of a modern, 
adequate, and efficient hospital center in the District of Columbia, to 
authorize the making of grants for hospital facilities to private agen-
cies in the District of Columbia, to provide a basis for repayment to 
the Government by the Commissioners of the District oi Columbia, 
and for other purposes", approved August 7, 1946 (60 Stat. 896), as 
amended, is amended by striking out "on the last day of the second ses-
sion of the Eighty-seventh Congress" and inserting in liieu thereof 
"June 30, 1963'\ 
Approved August 20, 1962. 
D.C. 
Hospital facil-
ities. 
Ante, p. 124. 
Public Law 87-594 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain 
the Arbuckle reclamation project, Oklahoma, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ I'hat the Secretary 
of the Interior is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain the 
Arbuckle Federal reclamation project, Oklahoma, in accordance with 
the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and 
Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto), for the principal 
purposes of storing, regulating, and furnishing water for municipal, 
domestic, and industrial use, and for controlling floods and for the 
conservation and development of fish and wildlife, and the enhance-
ment of recreational opportunities. 
The project shall consist of the 
following principal works: A reservoir on Rock Creek near Sulphur, 
Oklahoma, pumping plants, pipelines, and other conduits for furnish-
ing water for municipal, domestic, and industrial use, and minimum 
basic recreational facilities. 
SEC. 2. In constructing, operating, and maintaining the Arbuckle 
project, the Secretary shall allocate the costs thereof among different 
August 24. 1962 
[H. R. 23] 
Interior Depart-
ment. 
Arbuckle recla-
mation project, 
Okla. 
Construction au-
thorization. 
43 u s e 371 note. 
Allocation of 
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functions resulting from multiple-purpose development under the 
following conditions: 
(a) Allocations to flood control, recreation, and the conservation and 
development of fish and wildlife shall be nonreimbursable and non-
returnable under the reclamation laws; 
(b) Allocations to municipal water supply, including domestic, man-
ufacturing, and industrial uses, shall be repayable to the United States 
by the water users through contracts with municipal corporations, or 
other organizations as defined by section 2, Reclamation Project Act 
43 use 485a. 
of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187) under the provisions of the Federal reclamation 
laws, and to the extent appropriate, under the Water Supply Act of 
43 use 390b 
1958 (72 Stat. 319), as amended. 
Such contracts shall be precedent to 
the commencement of construction of any project unit affecting the 
individual municipality or industrial users, and shall provide for 
repayment of construction costs allocated to municipal water supply 
in not to exceed fifty years from the date water is first delivered for 
that purpose: Provided^ That the water users' organization be respon-
sible for the disposal and sale of all water surplus to its requirements, 
and that the revenues therefrom shall be used by the organization for 
the retirement of project debt payment, payment of interest, and pay-
ment of operation and maintenance cost. 
The interest rate used for 
purposes of computing interest during construction and interest on the 
unpaid balance shall be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, 
as of the beginning of the fiscal year in which construction is initiated, 
on the basis of the computed average interest rate payable by the 
Treasury upon its outstanding marketable public obligations, which 
are neither due nor callable for redemption for fifteen years from date 
of issue; 
i 
(c) Upon the completion of the payment of the water users' con-
struction cost obligation, together with the interest thereon, the waterj 
users, their designee or designees, shall (1) have a permanent right! 
to the use of that portion of the project allocable to municipal water 
supply purposes, so long as the space designated for those purposes 
may be physically available, taking into account such equitable reallo-
cation of reservoir storage capacities among the purposes served by 
the project as may be necessary due to sedimentation, subject, if the 
project is then operated by the United States, to payment of a reason-
able annual charge to the Secretary of the Interior sufficient to pay all 
operation and maintenance charges and a fair share of the administra-
tive cost^ applicable to the project; (2) be conveyed title to such por-
tions of the pipelines and related facilities as are used solely for deliv-
ering project water to the water users. 
SEC. 3. Contracts may be entered into with the water users' organiza-
tion pursuant to the provisions of this Act without regard to the last 
sentence of subsection (c) of section 9 of the Reclamation Project Act 
of 1939. 
53 Stat. 1193. 
43^sc 485h. 
SEC. 4. The Secretary is authorized to transfer to a water users' or-
erati^* er o o 
ganizatiou the care, operation, and maintenance of the works herein 
authorized and, if such transfer is made, may deduct from the obliga-
tion of the water users the reasonable capitalized equivalent of that 
portion of the estimated operation and maintenance cost of the under-, 
taking which, if the United States continues to operate the project, 
would be allocated to flood control and fish and wildlife purposes. 
Prior to taking over the care, operation, and maintenance of said 
works, the water users' organization shall obligate itself to operate 
them in accordance with criteria specified by the Secretary of the Army 
with respect to flood control and the Secretary of the Interior with 
respect to fish and wildlife and recreation. 
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SEC. 5. Construction of the Arbuckle project herein authorized may 
be undertaken in such units or stages as in the opinion of the Secre-
tary best serve the project requirements and the relative needs for 
water. 
Repayment contracts negotiated in connection with each unit 
or stage of construction shall be subject to the terms and conditions 
of section 2 of this Act. 
SEC. 6. The Secretary may (1) contract for the construction of any 
part of the minimum basic recreational facilities with any qualified 
agency of the State of Oklahoma or a political subdivision thereof, and 
(2) upon conclusion of a suitable agi'eement with any such agency or 
political subdivision for- assumption of the administration, operation, 
and maintenance thereof at the earliest practicable date, construct or 
f
)ermit the construction of public park and recreational facilities on 
ands owned by the United States adjacent to the reservoir of the 
Arbuckle project, when such use is determined by the Secretary not 
to be contrary to the public interest, all under such rules and regula-
tions as the Secretary may prescribe. 
No recreational use of any area 
to which this section applies shall be permitted which is inconsistent 
with the laws of the State of Oklahoma for the protection of fish and 
game and the protection of the public health, safety, and welfare. The 
Federal costs of constructing the facilities authorized by this section 
shall be limited to the nonreimbursable costs of the Arbuckle project 
for minimum basic recreational facilities as determined by the Secre-
tary. 
SEC. 7. The Secretary may make such reasonable provision in con-
nection with the works of the Arbuckle Federal reclamation project, in 
accordance with section 2 of the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act 
(48 Stat. 401, as amended, 16 U.S.C. 661, and the following), as he 
nnds to be required for the conservation and development of fish and 
wildlife. 
SEC. 8. Expenditures for Arbuckle Reservoir, and the water supply 
aqueduct system, may be made without regard to the soil survey and 
land classification requirements of the Interior Department Appro-
priation Act, 1954 (43 U.S.C. 390a). 
SEC. 9, There is authorized to be appropriated for construction of 
the Arbuckle reclamation project the sum of $13,340,000 (March 1962 
prices), plus or minus such amounts as may be justified by reason 
of ordinary fluctuations in construction costs as indicated by engineer-
ing cost indices applicable to the type of construction involved herein. 
There are also authorized to be appropriated such additional sums as 
may be required for the operation and maintenance of the project. 
Approved August 24, 1962, 9:30 a. m. 
stages of con-
struction. 
Recreational fa-
cilities. 
Fish and >vild-
life. 
72 Stat. 563. 
67 Stat. 266. 
Appropriation. 
Public Law 87-595 
AN ACT 
To amend sections 216(c) and 305(b) of the Interstate Commerce Act, relating 
to the establishment of through routes and joint rates. 
August 24„ 1962 
[H. R. 11643] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress o^semhled., That subsection (c) 
of section'216 of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended (49 U.S.C. 
316(c)), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new 
sentence: "As used in this subsection, the term 'common carriers by 
water' includes water common carriers subject to the Shipping Act, 
1916, as amended, or the Intercoastal Shipping Act of 1933, as 
amended (including persons who hold themselves out to transport 
goods by water but who do not own'or operate vessels) engaged in the 
Interstate Com-
merce Act, amend-
ment. 
49 Stat. 558. 
40 Stat. 903. 
46 u s e 842. 
47 Stat. 1427. 
46 u s e 848.