An Act granting the consent of Congress to the States of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas to negotiate and enter into a compact providing for the apportionment of the waters of the Red River and its tributaries
PL 84-346 (S.2260), enacted 08/11/1955

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PUBLIC LAW 346~AUG. 11, 1955 
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TITLE V—FAKM HOUSING 
SEC. 501. Title V of the Housing Act of 1949, as amended, is hereby 
further amended as follows: 
(1) In the first sentence of section 511 immediately following the 
phrase "July 1, 1953" strike out the word "and" and insert at the 
end of the sentence immediately before the period a comma and the 
following: "and an additional $100,000,000 on and after July 1,1955". 
(2) In section 512, (A) strike out "and 1954" and insert "1954, and 
1955", and (B) strike out "and $2,000,000" and insert "$2,000,000 
and $2,000,000". 
(3) In section 513, strike out "and $10,000,000 on July 1 of each 
of the years 1950,1951,1952,1953, and 1954" and insert "$10,000,000, 
and $10,000,000 on July 1 of each of the years 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 
1954, and 1955". 
Approved August 11, 1955. 
Public Law 346 
CHAPTER 784 
August 11. 1955 
[S.2260] 
Red River. 
Consent of Con-
gress to interstate 
compact* 
Reports. 
AN ACT 
Granting the consent of Congress to the States of Arkansas, Louisiana, Okla-
homa, and Texas to negotiate and enter into a compact providing for the 
apportionment of the waters of the Red River and its tributaries. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent 
of Congress is hereby given to the States of Arkansas, Louisiana, 
Oklahoma, and Texas to negotiate and enter into a compact providing 
for an equitable apportionment among them of the waters of the 
Red River and its tributaries, upon the condition that one qualified 
person appointed by the President of the United States shall par-
ticipate in such negotiations as chairman, without vote, representing 
(he United States, and shall make a report to the President of the 
United States and the Congress of the proceedings and of any com-
pact entered into. 
Such compact shall not be binding or obligatory 
upon any of the parties thereto until it shall have been ratified by 
the legislatures of each of the respective States, and approved by the 
Congress of the United States. 
Approved August 11, 1955.