An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Manson unit, Chelan division. Chief Joseph Dam project, Washington, and for other purposes
PL 89-557 (S.490), enacted 09/07/1966

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PUBLIC LAW 89-557-SEPT. 7, 1966 
[80 STAT. 
Research and 
science funds. 
60 Stat. 1082; 
68 Stat. 574; 
7 2 Stat. 179 3. 
Short title. 
SEC. 506. Not less than $1,500,000 of the appropriations of the De-
partment for research and service work authorized by the Acts of 
August 14, 1946, July 28, 1954, and September 6, 1958 (7 U.S.C. 427, 
1621-1629; 42 U.S.Cf. 1891-1893), shall be available for contracting 
in accordance with said Acts. 
SEC. 507. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless 
expressly so provided herein. 
This Act may be cited as the "Department of Agriculture and Re-
lated Agencies Appropriation Act, 1967". 
Approved September 7, 1966. 
September 7, 1966 
[S. 490] 
Chief Joseph 
Dam project, 
Manson unit. 
43 u s e 391. 
Irrigation repay-
ment contracts. 
"Construction 
c o s t s . " 
Fish and wild-
life resources and 
recreation. 
16 u s e Z-12 note. 
Public Law 89-557 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain 
the Manson unit, Chelan division. Chief Joseph Dam project, Washington, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted l)y the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled.^ That, for the pur-
poses of supplying irrigation water for approximately five thousand 
eight hundred acres of land, undertaking the rehabilitation and better-
ment of works serving a major portion of these lands, conservation 
and development of fish and wildlife resources, and enhancement of 
recreation opportunities, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized 
to construct, operate, and maintain the Manson unit, Chelan division. 
Chief Joseph Dam project, Washington, in accordance with the Fed-
eral reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts 
amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto). 
The principal works 
of the unit shall consist of dams and related works for enlargement of 
Antilon Lake storage, related canals, conduits, and distribution sys-
tems, and works incidental to the rehabilitation of the existing irri-
gation system. 
SEC. 2. Irrigation repayment contracts shall provide for repayment 
of the obligation assumed thereunder with respect to any contract 
unit over a period of not more than fifty years exclusive of any de-
velopment period authorized by law. 
Construction costs allocated 
to irrigation beyond the ability of the irrigators to repay during the 
repayment period shall be returned to the reclamation fund wathin 
said repayment period from revenues derived by the Secretary from 
the disposition of power marketed through the Bonneville Power 
Administration. 
The term "construction costs", as used herein, shall 
include any irrigation operation, maintenance, and replacement costs 
during the development period which the Secretary finds it proper 
to fund because they are beyond the ability of the irrigators to pay 
during that period. 
Power and energy required for irrigation water 
pumping for the Manson unit shall be made available by the Secretary 
from the Federal Columbia River power system at charges determined 
by the Secretary. 
SEC. 3. The conservation and development of the fish and wildlife 
resources and the enhancement of recreation opportunities in con-
nection with the Manson unit shall be in accordance with provisions 
of the Federal Water Project Recreation Act (79 Stat. 213). 
SEC. 4. For a period of ten years from the date of enactment of this 
Act, no water shall be delivered to any water user on the Manson unit, 
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Chelan division, for the production on newly irrigated lands of any 
basic agricultural commodity, as defined in the Agricultural Act of 
1949, or any amendment thereof, if the total supply of such commodity 
for the marketing year in which the bulk of the crop would normally 
be marketed is in excess of the normal supply as defined in section 
301(b) (10) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, 
unless the Secretary of Agriculture calls for an increase in production 
of such commodity in the interest of national security. 
SEC. 5. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated for con-
struction of the new works involved in the Manson unit, $13,344,000 
(April 1965 prices), plus or minus such amounts, if any, as may be 
required by reason of changes in the cost of construction work of the 
types involved therein as shown by engineering cost indexes and, 
in addition thereto, such sums as may be required to operate and main-
tain said unit. 
Approved September 7, 1966. 
63 Stat. 1051. 
7 u s e 1421 
note. 
6 2 Stat. 1251. 
7 u s e 1301. 
Appropriation. 
Public Law 89-558 
A N A C T 
September 7, 1966 
To provide that the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut 
[H. R. 26 53] 
shall also be held at New London, Connecticut. 
Be It enacted hy the Senate and IlouHe of Fie 
preventatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That the second 
^-^^ Lo"do^' 
sentence of section 86 of title 28, United States Code, is amended to conn. °" °"' 
read as follows: "Court shall be held at Bridgeport, Hartford, New 
75 stat. 83. 
Haven, New London, and Waterbury." 
Approved September 7, 1366. 
Public Law 89-559 
AN ACT 
To amend the Life Insurance Act of the District of Columbia, approved June 19, 
1934, as amended. 
September 7, 1966 
[H. R. 9 824] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 11 of 
chapter I I of the Life Insurance Act, approved June 19, 1934, as 
amended (48 Stat. 1132, as amended, 77 Stat. 347; title 35, section 
410, D.C. Code, 1961 edition) is hereby amended by striking there-
from the first sentence. 
Approved September 7, 1966. 
Life Insurance 
Act, D.e. 
Amendment.