An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Talent division of the Rouge River Basin reclamation protect, Oregon
PL 83-606 (H.R.8384), enacted 08/20/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 606-AUG. 20, 1954 
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Reports to Con-
gress. 
Use of name. 
Transfer of as-
sets. 
Use of assets on 
dissolution or liq-
uidation. 
or persons conducting the audit; and full facilities for verifying 
transactions with the balances or securities held by depositories, nscal 
agents, and custodians shall be afforded to such person or persons. 
(b) A report of such audit shall be made by the corporation to thev 
Congress not later than March 1 of each year. The report shall set 
forth the scope of the audit and shall include a verification by the 
person or persons conducting the audit of statements of (1) assets 
and liabilities, (2) capital and surplus or deficit, (3) surplus or deficit 
analysis, (4) income and expense, and (5) sources and application 
of funds. Such report shall not be printed as a public document. 
SEC. 16. On or before March 1 of each year the corporation shall 
report to the Congress on its activities during the preceding fiscal 
year. 
Such report may consist of a report on the proceedings of 
the National Encampment covering such fiscal year. 
Such report 
shall not be printed as a public document. 
SEC. 17. The corporation and its subordinate divisions shall have 
the sole and exclusive right to use the name, the Sons of Union Vet-
erans of the Civil War. 
The corporation shall have the exclusive 
and sole right to use, or to allow or refuse the use of, such emblems, 
seals, and badges as it may legally adopt, and such emblems, seals, 
and badges as have heretofore been used by the Illinois corporation 
described in section 18 and the right to which may be lawfully trans-
ferred to the corporation. 
SEC. 18. The corporation may acquire the assets of the Sons of 
Union Veterans of the Civil War, a corporation organized under 
the laws of the State of Illinois, upon discharging or satisfactorily 
providing for the payment and discharge of all of the liability of such 
corporation and upon complying with all laws of the State of Illinois 
applicable thereto. 
SEC. 19. Upon dissolution or final liquidation of the corporation, 
after discharge or satisfaction of all outstanding obligations and 
liabilities, the remaining assets, if any, of the corporation shall be 
distributed in accordance with the determination of the council of 
administration and in compliance with the constitution and bylaws 
of the corporation and all Federal and State laws applicable thereto. 
SEC. 20. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is expressly 
reserved. 
Approved August 20, 1954. 
Public Law 606. 
CHAPTER 775 
August 20, 1954 
[H. R. 8384] 
Rogue 
R i v e r 
Basin project. 
Talent division. 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain 
the Talent division of the Rogue River Basin reclamation project, Oregon. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of A7nenca in Congress assembled^ That, for the pur-
poses of furnishing water for the irrigation of approximately eighteen 
thousand acres of land in Jackson County, Oregon, controlling floods, 
and providing hydroelectric power, and for other beneficial purposes, 
the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to construct, operate, and 
maintain the Talent division of the Rogue River Basin project con-
sisting of two principal reservoirs at the Howard Prairie and Emi-
grant sites, together with other necessary works for the collection, 
impounding, diversion, and delivery of water, the generation and 
transmission of hydroelectric power and operations incidental thereto. 
The construction, operation, and maintenance of the Talent division 
shall be made in accordance with the report of the Secretary of the 
Interior thereon dated June 3,1954: Provided^ That the Green Springs 
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powerplant may be constructed with a capacity of sixteen thousand 
kilowatts. 
The Secretary is further authorized to undertake the reha-
bilitation of works of the Medf ord and Rogue Kiver Valley Irrigation 
Districts as under the provisions of the Act of October 7,1949 (63 Stat. 
724), as amended. 
SEC. 2. (a) In constructing, operating, and maintaining the Talent 
division, the Secretary shall be governed by the Federal reclamation 
laws (Act of June 17,1902; 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof 
or supplementary thereto) except as is otherwise provided in this Act. 
(b) Any contract entered into under section 9, subsection (d), 
of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187, 1193; 43 
U. S. C, 1946 ed., sec. 485h), for payment of those portions of the 
costs of constructing, operating, and maintaining the Talent division 
which are properly allocable to irrigation and which are assigned to 
be paid by the contracting organization shall provide for the repay-
ment of the portion of the construction cost of the division assigned; 
to any contract unit or, if the contract unit be divided into two or 
more blocks, to any such block over a period of not more than sixty 
years, exclusive of any permissible development period, or as near 
thereto as is consistent with the adoption and operation of a variable 
payment formula which, being based on full repayment within the 
period stated under average conditions, permits variance in the 
required annual payments in the light of economic factors pertinent 
of the ability of the organization to pay. 
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, 
all net revenues derived from the sale of commercial power from the 
Talent division shall be applied, first, to the amortization of that 
portion of the cost of constructing the division which is allocated 
to commercial power with interest on the unamortized balance thereof 
at the average rate (which rate shall be certified by the Secretary of 
the Treasury) paid by the United States on its marketable long-term 
securities outstanding on the date of this Act and, thereafter, to the 
amortization of that portion of the cost of constructing the division 
which is allocated to irrigation but which is beyond the ability of the 
contracting irrigation organization to repay as provided above. Con-
tracts for the disposition of power from the Talent division shall be 
entered into with the financial objective of returning the power allo-
cation with interest plus as much of the irrigation allocation as is 
beyond the ability of the water users to repay, all as hereinbefore 
provided, within a period of not more than sixty years. 
SEC. 3. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for con-
struction of the Talent division and for the rehabilitation work 
authorized to be undertaken by section 1 of this Act, out of any 
moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of 
$22,900,000 plus such amounts, if any, as may be required by reason 
of changes in construction costs as indicated by engineering cost 
indexes applicable to the type of construction involved therein. 
Approved August 20, 1954. 
43 u s e 504. 
Laws governing. 
43 u s e 371 note. 
C o n t r a c t pay-
ments. 
e o m m e r c i a l 
power sales. 
Use of revenue. 
Appropriation. 
Public Law 607 
CHAPTER 776 
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A C T 
August 20, 1954 
To establish the rate of compensation for the position of the General Counsel of 
[H. R. 8921] 
the Department of Commerce. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Refresentatvves 
of the 
United States of America in Congress ojssemhled^ That that portion of 
commerce D e 
the Act of March 18,1904, relating to the Office of the General Counsel partment. 
General Counsel. 
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