An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Trinity River division, Central Valley project, California, under Federal reclamation laws
PL 84-386 (H.R.4663), enacted 08/12/1955

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PUBLIC LAW 386-AUG. 12, 1955 
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Public Law 386 
CHAPTER 
872 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain 
the Trinity River division. Central Valley project, California, under Federal 
reclamation laws. 
August 12, 1955 
[H. R. 4663] 
Be it enacted hy the Seriate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That, for the prin-
cipal purpose of increasing the supply of water available for irriga-
tion and other beneficial uses in the Central Valley of California, 
the Secretary of the Interior, acting pursuant to the Federal 
reclamation laws (Act of June 17,1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amend-
atory thereof or supplementary thereto), is authorized to construct, 
operate, and maintain, as an addition to and an integral part of the 
Central Valley project, California, the Trinity River division con-
sisting of a major storage reservoir on the Trinity River with a 
capacity of two million five hundred thousand acre-feet, a conveyance 
system consisting of tunnels, dams, and appurtenant works to trans-
port Trinity River water to the Sacramento River and provide, by 
means of storage as necessary, such control and conservation of Clear 
Creek flows as the Secretary determines proper to carry out the 
purposes of this Act, hydroelectric powerplants with a total generat-
ing capacity of approximately two hundred thirty-three thousand 
kilowatts, and such electric transmission facilities as may be required 
to deliver the output of said powerplants to other facilities of the 
Central Valley project and to furnish energy in Trinity County: 
Provided^ That the Secretary is authorized and directed to continue 
to a conclusion the engineering studies and negotiations with any 
non-Federal agency with respect to proposals to purchase falling 
water and, not later than eighteen months from the date of enactment 
of this Act, report the results of such negotiations, including the 
terms of a proposed agreement, if any, that may be reached, together 
with his recommendations thereon, which agreement, if any, shall 
not become effective until approved by Congress. The works author-
ized to be constructed shall also include a conduit or canal extending 
from the most practicable point on the Sacramento River near 
Redding in an easterly direction to intersect with Cow Creek, with 
such pumping plants, regulatory reservoirs, and other appurtenant 
works as may be necessary to bring about maximum beneficial use of 
project water supplies in the area. 
SEC. 2. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the operation of the 
Trinity River division shall be integrated and coordinated, from 
both a financial and an operational standpoint, with the operation 
of other features of the Central Valley project, as presently author-
ized and as may in the future be aiithorized by Act of Congress, in 
such manner as will effectuate the fullest, most beneficial, and most 
economic utilization of the water resources hereby made available: 
Provided^ That the Secretary is authorized and directed to adopt 
appropriate measures to insure the preservation and propagation of 
fish and wildlife, including, but not limited to, the maintenance of 
the flow of the Trinity River below the diversion point at not less 
than one hundred and fifty cubic feet per second for the months 
July through November and the flow of Clear Creek below the diver-
sion point at not less than fifteen cubic feet per second unless the 
Secretary and the California Fish and Game Commission determine 
and agree that lesser flows would be adequate for maintenance of fish 
life and propagation thereof; the Secretary shall also allocate to the 
preservation and propagation of fish and wildlife, as provided in the 
Act of August 14, 1946 (60 Stat. 1080), an appropriate share of the 
Central V a l l e y 
project^ Calif. 
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division. 
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costs of constructing the Trinity River development and of operating 
and maintaining the same, such costs to be non-reimbursable: 
Provided further^ That not less than 50,000 acre-feet shall be released 
annually from the Trinity Reservoir and made available to Humboldt 
County and downstream water users. 
SEC. 3. The Secretary is authorized to investigate, plan, construct, 
operate, and maintain minimum basic facilities for access to, and 
for the maintenance of public health and safety and the protection 
of public property on, lands withdrawn or acquired for the develop-
ment of the Trinity River division, to conserve the scenery and the 
natural, historic, and archeologic objects, and to provide for public 
use and enjoyment of the same and of the water areas created by 
these developments by such means as are consistent with their primary 
purposes. 
The Secretary is authorized to withdraw from entry or 
other disposition under the public land laws such public lands as are 
necessary for the construction, operation, and maintenance of said 
minimum basic facilities and for the other purposes specified in this 
section and to dispose of such lands to Federal, State, and local 
governmental agencies by lease, transfer, exchange, or conveyance 
upon such terms and conditions as will best promote their develop-
ment and operation in the public interest. The Secretary is further 
authorized to investigate the need for acquiring other lands for said 
purposes and to report thereon to the Committees on Interior and 
Insular Affairs of the Senate and House of Representatives, but no 
lands shall be acquired solely for any of these purposes other than 
access to project lands and the maintenance of public health and 
safety and the protection of public property thereon without further 
authorization by the Congress. All costs incurred pursuant to this 
section shall be nonreimbursable and nonreturnable. 
SEC. 4. Contracts for the sale and delivery of the additional electric 
energy available from the Central Valley project power system as a 
result of the construction of the plants herein authorized and their 
integration with that system shall be made in accordance with prefer-
ences expressed in the Federal reclamation laws: Provided^ That a 
first preference, to the extent of 25 per centum of such additional 
energy, shall be given, under reclamation law, to preference customers 
in Trinity County, California, for use in that county, who are ready, 
able and willing, within twelve months after notice of availability 
by the Secretary, to enter into contracts for the energy: 
Provided 
further^ That Trinity County preference customers may exercise their 
option on the same date in each successive fifth year providing 
written notice of their intention to use the energy is given to the 
Secretary not less than eighteen months prior to said date. 
SEC. 5. The Secretary is authorized to make payments, from con-
struction appropriations, to Trinity County, California, of such 
additional costs of repairing, maintaining, and constructing county 
roads as are incurred by it during the period of actual construction 
of the Trinity River division and as are found by the Secretary to be 
properly attributable to and occasioned by said construction. 
The 
Secretary is further authorized and directed to pay to Trinity County 
annually an in-lieu tax payment out of the appropriations during 
construction and from the gross revenues of the project during oper-
ation an amount equal to the annual tax rate of the county applied to 
the value of the real property and improvements taken for project 
purposes in Trinity County, said value being determined as of the 
date such property and improvements are taken off the tax rolls. 
Payments to the public-school districts in the project area affected 
by construction activities shall be made pursuant to existing law. 
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SEC. (). There are hereby authorized to be appropriated for con-
struction of the Trinity River division $225,000,000, plus or minus 
such amounts, if any, as may be justified by reason of ordinary 
fluctuations 
in construction costs as indicated by engineering cost 
indexes applicable to the type of construction involved herein, and, 
in addition thereto, such sums as may be required to carry out the 
provisions of section 5 of this Act and to operate and maintain the 
said development. 
Approved August 12, 1955. 
Appropriation. 
Public Law 387 
CHAPTER 873 
AN ACT 
To reempbasize trade development as the primary purpose of title I of the 
Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954. 
August 12, 1955 
[S, 2253] 
Be it enojcted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That section 103 (b) 
of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 is 
amended by striking out "$700,000,000-' and inserting in lieu thereof 
""$1,500,000,000. This limitation shall not be apportioned by year or 
by country, but shall be considered as an objective as well as a limita-
tion, to be reached as rapidly as possible so long as the purposes of 
this Act can be achieved within the safeguards established." 
SEC. 2. Section 106 of such Act is amended by adding the following: 
"The Secretary of Agriculture is also authorized to determine the 
nations with whom agreements shall be negotiated, and to determine 
the commodities and quantities thereof which may be included in the 
negotiations with each country after advising with other agencies of 
Government affected and within broad policies laid down by the Presi-
dent for implementing this Act." 
Approved August 12, 1955. 
A gri c u l t u r e I 
trade developments 
68 Stat. 456. 
7 u s e 170 3(b). 
68 Stat. 457. 
7 u s e 1706. 
Public Law 388 
CHAPTER 
874 
AN ACT 
August 12, 1955 
[H. R. 6182] 
To amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to 
make temporary provision for making payments in lieu of taxes with respect 
to certain real property transferred by the Reconstruction Finance Corpora-
tion and its subsidiaries to other Government departments. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and, House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the table of tran**8ffr?ed^f%m 
contents contained in the first section of the Federal Property and RFC. 
Administrative Services Act of 1949 is hereby amended by inserting st^f. Issl* ^^^' ^^ 
immediately below "Sec. 605. Effective date." 
40 use 47 mote, 
the follow^ing: 
"TITLE 
VII—PROPERTY TRANSFERRED FROM THE RECONSTRUCTION 
FINANCE CORPORATION 
"Sec. 
"Sec. 
"Sec. 
"Sec. 
"Sec. 
701. Declaration of Policy. 
702. Definitions. 
703. Property transferred by the Reconstruction Finance Cor-
poration. 
704. Limitations. 
705. Effective date." 
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