An Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to convey a certain parcel of land to the city of Clifton, N. J.
PL 83-541 (H.R.4928), enacted 07/27/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 541-JULY 27, 1954 
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SEC. 2. In the construction, operation and maintenance of the Foster 
Creek division, the Secretary shall be governed by the Federal rec-
lamation laws (Act of June 17,1902,32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory 
thereof or supplementary thereto) except that (a) the period provided 
in subsection (d), section 9, of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 
(53 Stat. 1187), for repayment of construction costs properly charge-
able 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 variable 
payment formula as hereinafter provided; (b) any repayment con-
tract entered into may provide that the amounts to be paid annually 
thereunder shall be determined in accordance with a formula, mutually 
agreeable to the parties, which reflects economic conditions pertinent 
to the irrigators payment capacity; and (c) all construction costs 
which are beyond the ability of the irrigators to repay as hereinbefore 
provided shall be charged to, and returnable to the reclamation fund 
from, net revenues derived from the sale of power from the Chief 
Joseph Dam project which are over and beyond those required to 
amortize the power investment in said project and to return interest 
on the unamortized balance thereof. Power and energy required for 
irrigation pumping for the Foster Creek division authorized shall be 
made available by the Secretary from the Chief Joseph Dam power-
plant and other Federal plants interconnected therewith at rates not 
to exceed the cost of such power and energy from the Chief Joseph 
Dam taking into account all costs of the dam, reservoir, and power-
plant which are determined by the Secretary under the provisions of 
the Federal reclamation laws to be properly allocable to such irriga-
tion pumping power and energy. 
SEC. 3. Reports on additional reclamation units in the vicinity of the 
Chief Joseph Dam project proposed to be constructed as units of the 
project shall be submitted by the Secretary from time to time in 
accordance with the provisions of the Act of July 17, 1952, supra. 
SEC. 4. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated out of any 
moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $4,798,000 plus 
or minus such amounts, if any, as may be justified by reason of ordinary 
fluctuations in the cost of said type of construction without endanger-
ing the economic feasibility of the Foster Creek division of the Chief 
Joseph Dam project, Washington. 
Approved July 27, 1954. 
43 use 371 note. 
43 u s e 485h. 
Reports to eon-
gress. 
Appropriation. 
Public Law 541 
CHAPTER 586 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to convey a certain parcel of land to 
the city of Clifton, New Jersey. 
July 27,1954 
[H. R. 4928] 
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 and directed to convey by quitclaim deed 
to the city of Clifton, New Jersey, upon payment by said city of 75 
per centum of the appraised fair market value therefor as determined 
by the Secretary of Agriculture, all the right, title, and interest of the 
United States in and to a parcel of land comprising the westerly 
portion of the United States Animal Quarantine Station, Clifton, 
New Jersey, lying along the southerly side of Colfax Avenue and 
containing approximately fourteen and one-quarter acres more or less, 
subject to the reservations, conditions, and restrictions of this Act. 
Clifton, N. J. 
Conveyance. 
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Mineral r i g h t s , 
etc. 
Boundary fence. 
The cost of any survey required in connection with the conveyance of 
this property shall be at the expense of the city of Clifton. 
SEC. 2. Said quitclaim deed shall also contain a reservation to the 
United States of all gas, oil, coal and all source materials essential to 
the production of fissionable material and all other mineral deposits 
and the right to the use of the land for extracting and removing same. 
SEC. 3. The city of Clifton shall, prior to the actual use of the tract 
of land conveyed to such city by the first section of this Act and prior 
to the alteration or removal of any fences now upon such tract of 
land, provide a suitable fence on the boundary line between such 
parcel of land and the remaining land of the United States animal 
quarantine station. 
If the city of Clifton fails to provide such fence 
prior to the actual use of such tract of land and prior to the alteration 
or removal of the existing fences, all the right, title, and interest in 
and to the land conveyed by the first section of this Act shall revert 
to, and become the property of, the United States, which shall have 
the immediate right of entry thereon. 
Approved July 27, 1954. 
Public Law 542 
CHAPTER 587 
AN ACT 
July 27,1954 
[H. R. 6882] 
iji^j amend the Act of September 27, 1950, relating to construction of the Vermejo 
reclamation project. 
Vermejo r e c 1 a-
mation 
p r o j e c t , 
N. Mex. 
B o n ded indebt-
edness. 
T r a n s f e r 
of 
funds. 
Repayment limi-
tation. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assenfibled, That the Act of 
September 27, 1950 (64 Stat. 1072), as amended, is further amended 
by adding thereto a new section reading as follows: 
"SEC. 6. Upon the execution of a contract with the Vermejo Con-
servancy District supplementary to or amendatory of the contract 
dated August 7, 1952, between the district and the United States, 
pursuant to which supplementary or amendatory contract the district 
agrees to an increase in the total obligation repayable by it under 
the contract of xlugust 7, 1952, in an amount equal to the face value 
of the outstanding bonds of the Maxwell Irrigation Company held 
by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation with unpaid interest, if 
any, accrued after July 1, 1953, and to a commensurate increase in 
the annual base charge provided in article 10 of said contract the 
entire obligation of said company to the Reconstruction Finance 
Corporation shall be fully discharged and said bonds shall be 
returned to the debtor for cancellation. 
Thereupon the Secretary of 
the Interior shall request, and the Secretary of the Treasury shall 
cause to be transferred on the books of the Treasury to the account 
of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation from moneys appro-
priated for carrying on the functions of the Bureau of Reclamation 
and available for constructing the Vermejo reclamation project, a 
sum equal to the face value of the outstanding bonds, with accrued 
interest, as aforesaid, of the Maxwell Irrigation Company held by 
the Reconstruction Finance Corporation." 
SEC. 2. The limit upon the amount repayable by the contracting 
organization which is set forth in the proviso to section 2 of the Act 
of September 27, 1950, shall be exclusive of any additional amount 
which the district undertakes to repay pursuant to section 1 of 
this Act. 
Approved July 27, 1954. 
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