An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and Maintain the western division of the Dalles Federal reclamation, project, Oregon, and for other purposes.
PL 86-745 (S.2195), enacted 09/13/1960

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PUBLIC LAW 86-745-SEPT. 13, 196 0 
[74 ST A T . 
Septen±>er 13, I960 
[S. 2 195] 
Public Law 86-745 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain 
the western division of The Dalles Federal reclamation project, Oregon, and 
for other purposes. 
Dalles 
Federal 
reclamation 
proj-
ect, Oreg. 
S3 Stat. 1195. 
43 u s e 485h. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That for the purpose 
of furnishing water for the irrigation of approximately five thousand 
five hundred acres of arid land in Wasco County, Oregon, the Secre-
tary of the Interior is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain 
the western division of The Dalles Federal reclamation project, 
Oregon. 
The western division shall consist of the following principal 
works: a main pumping plant to be located at a site on the Columbia 
River; a booster and relift pumping plants with reregulating reser-
voirs ; and a distribution system. 
SEC. 2. (a) In constructing, operating, and maintaining the western 
division of The Dalles project, the Secretary shall be governed by the 
43Stat. 37mote. Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and 
Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto). 
(b) The period provided in subsection (d) of section 9 of the 
Reclamation Project Act of 1939, as amended, for repayment of con-
struction costs properly allocable to any block of lands and assigned 
to be repaid by the irrigators may be extended to fifty years, exclusive 
of a development period, from the time water is first delivered to that 
block or to as near that number of years as is consistent with the 
adoption and operation of a repayment formula as therein provided. 
Costs allocated to irrigation in excess of the amount determined by 
the Secretary to be within the ability of the irrigators to repay within 
a fifty-year period shall be returned to the reclamation fund within a 
fifty-year period from the date of the first delivery of water from the 
facilities authorized by this legislation from net revenues derived by 
the Secretary of the Interior from the disposition of power marketed 
through the Bonneville Power Administration, which are over and 
above those required to meet any present obligations assigned for 
repayment from such net revenues. 
The term "construction costs" 
used herein shall include any irrigation operation and maintenance 
costs during the development period which the Secretary finds it 
proper to fund because they are beyond the ability of the water users 
to pay during that period. 
(c) Power and energy required for irrigation pumping for the 
western division of The Dalles Federal reclamation project shall be 
made available by the Secretary from The Dalles Dam powerplant 
and other Federal plants interconnected therewith at rates not to 
exceed the costs of such power and energy from The Dalles Dam 
taking into account all costs of the dam, reservoir, and pow^erplant 
which are determined by the Secretary under the provisions of the 
Federal reclamation laws to be properly allocable to such irrigation 
pumping power and energy. 
(d) That portion of the cost of constructing the works authorized 
by this Act which the Secretary finds to be properly allocable to the 
conservation and development of fish and wildlife, in accordance with 
the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (48 Stat. 401, as amended, 
16 U.S.C. 661, and the following), together with the portion of the 
operation, maintenance, and replacement costs allocated to this 
function, shall be nonreimbursable and nonreturnable under the 
reclamation laws. 
72 Stat. 563. 
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SEC. 3. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for construc-
tion of the works authorized by this Act not to exceed $6,000,000, 
plus or minus such amounts, if any, as may be justified by reason of 
ordinary fluctuations in construction costs as indicated by engineering 
cost indices applicable to the types of construction involved herein. 
Approved September 13, 1960. 
Appropriation. 
Public Law 86-746 
AN ACT 
To make permanent law the provisions of section 408 of the National Housing 
Act regulating savings and loan holding companies. 
September 13, 1960 
[S. 36 19] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That subsection (g) 
of section 408 of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1730a. (g)) is 
hereby repealed. 
Approved September 13, 1960. 
73 Stat. 691. 
Repeal. 
Public Law 86-747 
AN ACT 
Authorizing the President of the United States of America to present a gold 
medal to Robert Frost, a New England poet. 
September 13,1960 
[S. 3439] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That the President 
is authorized to present, in the name of Congress, an appropriate gold 
medal to Robert Frost in recognition of his poetry, which has enriched 
the culture of the United States and the philosophy of the world. 
For such purpose, the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause to be 
struck a'gold medal with suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions 
to be determined by the Secretary. 
SEC 2. There is authorized to be appropriated the sum of $2,500 
to carry out the provisions of this Act. 
Approved September 13, 1960. 
Robert Frost. 
Pr e s ent atlon o f 
medal. 
Appropriation. 
Public Law 86-748 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
To remove copyright restrictions upon the musical composition "Pledge of 
Allegiance to the Flag", and for other purposes. 
Septentoer 13, I960 
[H. J. Res. 704] 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
Spates of America in Congress assemhled, That the musical composi- sitio^''«^ied^e of 
tion "Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag", covered by copyright Allegiance to the 
EU399400, granted to Irving Caesar on June 3, 1955, assigned by ^'^movai of cop>* 
Irving Caesar to Congressman Louis C. Rabaut by an instrument right restrictions, 
recorded in the Office of the Register of Copyrights in assignment 
record book 942 at page 57, and assigned by Congressman Louis C. 
Rabaut to the Congress of the United States by an instrument recorded 
in the Office of the Register of Copyrights in assignment record book 
943 at page 451, is hereby declared to be m the public domain.