An Act to designate the San Rafael Wilderness, Los Padres National Forest, in the State of California
PL 90-271 (S.889), enacted 03/21/1968

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PUBLIC LAW-271-MAR. 21, 1968 
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Federal Reserve banks, under the terms of section 11 (c) of the Federal 
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Reserve Act necessitated by reason of operations under this section, 
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shall require the imposition of the graduated tax upon any deficiency 
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in reserves as provided in said section 11(c). Nor shall it require any 
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automatic increase in the rates of interest or discount charged by any 
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Federal Reserve bank, as otherwise specified in that section." 
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SEC. 10. Section 2 of the Act of July 14,1890 (26 Stat. 289; 31 U.S.C. 
R«P^«I«-
408), and section 2 of the Act of March 14, 1900 (31 Stat. 45), are 
repealed. 
SEC. 11. Section 7 of the Act of January 30,1934 (48 Stat. 341, 31 
U.S.C. 408b), is amended by striking the phrase "and as a reserve for 
any United States notes and for Treasury notes of 1890" and also by 
striking the phrase "as a reserve for any United States notes and for 
Treasury notes of 1890, and". 
SEC. 12. Section 14(c) of the Act of January 30,1934 (48 Stat. 344, 
31 U.S.C. 405b), is amended by striking from the first sentence "except 
the gold fund held as a reserve for any United States notes and Treas-
ury notes of 1890." 
Approved March 18, 1968. 
Public Law 90-270 
AN A C T 
March 21, 1968 
To designate the Oahe Reservoir on the Missouri River in the States of 
[H. R. 2901] 
North Dakota and Soxrth Dakota as Lake Oahe; 
Lake Oahe, 
N. Dak-S. Dak. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Oahe Reser-
voir on the Missouri River in the States of North Dakota and South " D^TignaUon 
Dakota shall be known and designated hereafter as Lake Oahe in 
honor of the Indian people who inhabited the great Missouri Rii^er 
Basin. Any law, regulation, document, or record of the United States 
in which such reservoir is referred to by any other name shall be held 
and considered to refer to such reservoir by the name of Lake Oahe. 
Approved March 21, 1968. 
Public Law 90-271 
AN A C T 
March 21,1968 
To designate the San Rafael Wilderness, Los Padres National Foi'e>it, in the 
[S- 889] 
State of California. 
San Rafael 
Wilderness, Calif. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in accordance 
with subsection 3(b) of the Wilderness Act of September 3, 1964 (78 " DTsignatlon! 
Stat. 891), the area classified as the San Rafael Primitive Area, with 
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the proposed additions thereto, as generally depicted on a map entitled 
"San Rafael Wilderness—Proposed," dated October 3, 1966, which is 
on file and available for public inspection in the office of the Chief, 
Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, is hereby designated as the 
San Rafael Wilderness within and as a part of Los Padres National 
Forest, comprising an area of approximately 143,000 acres. 
SEC. 2. As soon as practicable after this Act takes effect, the and^Sormation 
Secretary of Agriculture shall file a map and a legal description of the with congress. 
San Rafael Wilderness with the Interior and Insular Affairs Com-
mittees of the United States Senate and the House of Representatives 
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Administration. 
and such description shall have the same force and effect as if Included 
in this Act: Provided^ however^ That correction of clerical and typo-
graphical errors in such legal description and map may be made. 
SEC. 3. The San Kafael Wilderness shall be admmistered by the Sec-
retary of Agriculture in accordance with the provisions of the Wil-
derness Act governing areas designated b^ that Act as wilderness 
areas, except that any reference in such provisions to the effective date 
of the Wilderness Act shall be deemed to be a reference to the effective 
date of this Act. 
Approved March 21, 1968. 
March 22, 1968 
[S.J. Res. 123] 
Public Law 90-272 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
To approve long-term contracts for delivery of water from Navajo Reservoir in 
the State of New Mexico, and for other purposes. 
43 u s e 615SS. 
Water contracts, 
approval. 
Whereas section 11 (a) of the Act of June 13,1962 (76 Stat. 96; Public 
Law 87-483), provides that: "No long-term contract, except con-
tracts for the benefit of the lands and for the purposes specified in 
sections 2 (Navajo Indian irrigation project) and 8 (San Juan-
Chama project) of this Act, shall be entered into for the delivery of 
water stored in Navajo Reservoir or of any other waters of the San 
Juan River and its tributaries, as aforesaid, until the Secretary has 
determined by hydrologic investigation that sufficient water to fulfill 
said contract is reasonably likely to be available for use in the State 
of New Mexico during the term thereof under the allocations made 
in articles I I I and X I V of the Upper Colorado River Basin Com-
pact, and has submitted such determination to the Congress of the 
United States and the Congress has approved such contracts."; and 
Whereas the Secretary has made such determination in coimection 
with the following contracts transmitted to Congress by letter dated 
November 21,1967: 
Public Service Company of New Mexico-
Southern Union Gas Company 
Utah Consitruction and Mining Company 
Estimated 
Water 
water 
diversion depletion 
(acre-feet) (acre-feet) 
20,200 
50 
44,000 
64,250 
16,200 
50 
35,300 
51, 550 
Proposed 
uses 
Thermal-
electric 
generation. 
Pump cooling. 
Thermal-
electric 
generation. 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved l)y the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress asserribled^ That such contracts are 
hereby approved by the Confess. The Secretary may enter into amend-
ments thereto which would m his judgment be in the interest of water 
conservation, but the total water depletion shall not exceed the esti-
mates set forth in this joint resolution. 
Approved March 22, 1968.