An Act to provide for the construction of the Lower Teton division of the Teton Basin Federal reclamation project, Idaho, and for other purposes
PL 88-583 (S.1123), enacted 09/07/1964

78 STAT. ] 
PUBLIC LAW 88-583-SEPT. 7, 1964 
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Public Law 88-583 
AN A C T 
September 7, 1964 
To provide for the construction of the Lower Teton division of the Teton Basin 
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Federal reclamation project, Idaho, and for other purposes. 
43 use 371 note. 
Construction 
costs, repayment. 
53 Stat. 1193. 
43 use 485h. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of tlie 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That, in order to F^^*°" f cllma' 
assist in the irrigation of arid and semiarid lands in the upper Snake tion project, 
River Valley, Idaho, to provide facilities for river power opportuni- waho. 
ties created thereby and, as incidents to the foregoing purposes, to 
enhance recreational opportunities and provide for the conservation 
and development of fish and wildlife, the Secretary of the Interior 
is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain the Lower Teton 
division of the Teton Basin Federal reclamation project. 
The princi-
pal engineering features of the said project shall be a dam and 
reservoir at the Fremont site, a pumping plant, powerplant, canals 
and water distribution facilities, ground water development, and 
related facilities in the upper Snake River Valley, Idaho. 
In the 
construction, operation, and maintenance of the said project and proj-
ect works the Secretary shall be governed by the Federal reclamation 
laws (Act of June if, 1902 (32 Stat. 388), and Acts amendatory 
thereof and supplementary thereto). 
The project shall be operated 
consistent with the existing agreements as to storage rights in the 
Federal reclamation reservoirs in the upper Snake River Basin. 
SEC. 2. 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 as near that number of years as is consistent with the 
adoption and operation of a repayment formula as therein pro-
vided. 
Costs allocated to irrigation in excess of the amount deter-
mined hj the Secretary to be within the ability of the irrigators to 
lepay within a fifty-year period shall be returned to the reclamation 
fund from revenues derived by the Secretary from the disposition of 
power marketed through the Bonneville Power Administration and 
attributable to Federal projects in Idaho. 
SEC. 3. (a) The Secretary is authorized to construct, operate, and 
maintain or otherwise provide for basic public outdoor recreation 
facilities, to acquire or otherwise to include within the division area 
such adjacent lands or interests therein as are necessary for public 
recreation use, to allocate water and reservoir capacity to recreation, 
and to provide for the public use and enjoyment of division lands, 
facilities, and water areas in a manner coordinated with the other 
division functions. The Secretary is authorized to enter into agree-
ments with Federal agencies or State or local public bodies for the 
operation, maintenance, or additional development of division lands 
or facilities, or to dispose of division lands or facilities to Federal agen-
cies or State or local public bodies by lease, transfer, conveyance, or 
exchange upon such terms and conditions as will best promote the 
development and operation of such lands and facilities in the public 
interest for recreation purposes. The costs of the aforesaid under-
takings, including costs of investigation, planning, Federal opera-
tion and maintenance, shall be nonreimbursable. Nothing herein shall 
limit the authority of the Secretary granted by existing provisions of 
law relating to recreation development of water resource projects 
or to disposition of public lands for recreation purposes. 
Outdoor recrea-
tion facilities. 
Agreements. 
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Water users con-
tracts. 
Amendment au-
thority. 
Reports to Pres-
ident and Con-
gress. 
Appropriation. 
(b) Costs of means and measures to prevent loss of and damage to 
fish and wildlife resources shall be considered as project costs and 
allocated as may be appropriate among other division functions. 
SEC. 4. (a) The Secretary is authorized to amend contracts heretofore 
made under the Acts of September 30, 1950 (64 Stat. 1083), and of 
August 31, 1954 ([68 Stat. 1026), whereby the water users assumed an 
obligation for winter power replacement based on the winter water 
savings program at the Minidoka powerplant to relieve the contractors 
ratably by one-third of that obligation, and to make new contracts 
under these Acts on a like basis. To the extent such annual obligations 
are reduced, the cost thereof shall be included in the cost to be absorbed 
by the power operations of the Federal power system in Idaho. 
(b) The actual construction of the facilities herein authorized shall 
not be undertaken until at least 80 per centum of the conservation 
capacity in Fremont Reservoir is under subscription, nor until nego-
tiations have been undertaken in accordance with the provisions of 
(a) of this section. 
(c) No construction shall be undertaken on facilities of the Lower 
Teton division which are required solely to provide a full water supply 
to lands in the Rexburg Bench area until the Secretary has submitted 
his report and finding of feasibility on this phase of the division to 
the President and to the Congress. 
SEC. 5. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the con-
struction of the Lower Teton division of the Teton Basin Federal 
reclamation project, the sum of $52,000,000, 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 appli-
cable to the types of construction involved therein, and, in addition 
thereto, such sums as may be required to operate and maintain said 
division. 
Approved September 7, 1964. 
Public Law 88-584 
AN ACT 
September 7, 1964 
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To establish Federal agricultural services to Guam, and for other purposes. 
Guam. 
Technical agri-
cultural services. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary 
of Agriculture is authorized to establish and maintain an agricul-
tural program in Guam which will include such programs admin-
istered by the United States Department of Agriculture, hereinafter 
referred to as "Department", as are determined by the Secretary will 
promote the welfare of that island. 
This authority may be exercised 
without regard to section 25 fb) of the Organic Act of Guam (64 
Stat. 390; 48 U.S.C. 1421c(b)), or any other provision of law under 
which Guam may have been excluded from such programs. 
The 
Secretary is authorized to provide for such modification of any such 
programs extended to Guam as he deems necessary in order to adapt 
it to the needs of Guam. 
The program authorized by this section 
shall be developed in cooperation with the territorial government of 
Guam and shall be covered by a memorandum of understanding 
agreed to by the territorial government and the Department. 
The 
Secretary may also utilize the agencies, facilities, and employees of 
the Department, and may cooperate with other public agencies and 
with private organizations and individuals in Guam and elsewhere: 
Provided^ That the number of employees of the United States 
Department of Agriculture stationed on Guam to carry out the pur-
poses of this Act shall not exceed three at any one time.