An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to execute a repayment contract with the Yuma Mesa Irrigation and Drainage District, Gila project, Arizona, and for other purposes.
PL 84-394 (S.1689), enacted 01/28/1956

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SEC. 3. No monetary benefits or claims against the United States 
shall accrue as a result of the determination of the said boundary 
under this Act. 
Approved January 25, 1956. 
Public Law 393 
CHAPTER 12 
AN ACT 
To amend section 6 of the Act of August 30, 1S90, as amended, and section 2 of 
the Act of February 2, 1903, as amended. 
January 28, 1955 
[S. 1166] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United /States of America in Congress assembled, That section 6 of 
the Act of August 30, i890 (26 Stat. 414, 416; 21 IT. S. C. 104), "An 
Act providing for an ins;^ ection of meats for exportation, prohibiting 
the importation of adulterated articles of food or drink, and author-
izing the President to make proclamation in certain cases, and for 
other purposes", as amended, is further amended by deleting the words 
"and the admission into the Virgin Islands" immediately following 
the word "Texas" in the first sentence of such section; deleting the 
period at the end of such sentence; and adding the follow^ing clause 
after the word "therefrom" in such sentence: ", and the admission 
from the British Virgin Islands into the Virgin Islands of the United 
States, for slaughter only, of cattle which have been infested with or 
exposed to ticks upon being freed therefrom.". 
SEC. 2. That section 2 of the Act of February 2, 1903 (32 Stat. 791, 
792; 21 U. S. C. I l l ) , "An Act to enable the Secretary of Agriculture 
to more effectually suppress and prevent the spread of contagious and 
infectious diseases of livestock, and for other purposes", as amended, 
is further amended by deleting the proviso reading: ^'•Provided, That 
no such regulations or measures shall pertain to the introduction of 
live poultry into the Virgin Islands of the United States". 
Approved January 28, 1966. 
Virgin Islands* 
Ad m i s s i o n of 
cattle and poultry. 
68 Stat. 510. 
68 Stat. 510. 
Public Law 394 
CHAPTER 13 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to execute a repayment contract 
with the Yuma Mesa Irrigation and Drainage District, Gila project, Arizona, 
and for other purposes. 
January 28, 1956 
[S. 1689] 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
of the Interior is authorized to execute a contract with the Yuma 
Mesa Irrigation and Drainage District, Gila project, Arizona, on 
such terms and conditions as the Secretary deems appropriate, which 
shall provide, among other things, for repayment by the District to 
the United States over a period of not exceeding sixty years from 
the end of the development period for each irrigation block estab-
lished by the Secretary for lands situate within said district of (1) 
an average of $200 per acre for lands in said district for which irri-
gation facilities have been constructed, to be allocated as determined 
to be appropriate by the Secretary among the twelve thousand twenty-
three and six-tenths acres of class 2 lands and the seven thousand 
nine hundred forty-six and four-tenths acres of class 3 lands in the 
district, as classified in the Bureau of Reclamation report titled 
Yuma Mesa Ini-
gatlon D i s t r i c t , 
Ariz. 
Repayment co;n> 
tract. 
PUBLIC LAW 395-JAN. 28, 1956 
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struction, etc. 
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"'Land Classification Report, Unit One, Yuma Mesa Division, Gila 
Project, Arizona, May 1949", as amended, made pursuant to sub-
section (d) of section 4 of the Act of December 5, 1924 (4fS Stat. 702, 
43 U. S. G. 462) ; (2) the unpaid operation and maintenance charges 
which accrued prior to June 30,1954, totaling $297,167.45, as allocated 
by the Secretary to said lands situate within the district; and (0) the 
costs of the works authorized in section 2 hereof, not exceeding 
$1,350,000, and further providing for the release, on such terms and 
conditions as the Secretary finds appropriate, of the existing pre-
development contracts and mortgages held by the United States on 
the lands situate within the district which were predeveloped by the 
United States, and for the repayment to the United States by the 
lands benefited by said predevelopment of the amounts provided for 
in said mortgages in the same period within which the costs for the 
construction of the irrigation facilities are to be repaid. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary is authorized on such terms and conditions 
as he deems appropriate to make drainage surveys and investigations 
of the lands within the district, to construct drainage facilities and 
works therefor, to install additional pump capacity in the Yuma 
Mesa Pump Plant of not to exceed two hundred and seventy-five 
cubic feet per second, to construct such buildings determined by him 
to be appropriate in connection with the operation and maintenance 
of the lands situate within the district, and to provide in the contract 
referred to in section 1 hereof for the performance of such work. 
SEC. 3. Expenditures by the United States in excess of the amounts 
to be repaid by the district as provided in section 1 hereof, which 
have been allocated by the Secretary (a) to acreage eliminated from 
the Gila project pursuant to the Act of July 30, 1947 (61 Stat. 628), 
(b) to dust control on the Yuma Mesa Division, Gila project, (c) to 
that portion of predevelopment costs not heretofore covered by con-
tracts and mortgages covering predevelopment charges on lands situate 
within the district, and (d) other costs allocated by the Secretary 
to the lands situate within the district not otherwise covered by the 
repayment obligation in section 1 hereof to be assumed by the district 
or not otherwise allocated by the Secretary to other contracting entities 
and which are not assumed or are not to be assumed by them, shall be 
nonreimbursable: Provided,, That all revenues from the disposal of 
public lands within the district (which disposition is hereby author-
ized on terms and conditions satisfactory to the Secretary) or from 
special water service contracts other than those which the Secretary 
determines are allocable to operation and maintenance costs of the 
district shall be retained by the United States. 
SEC. 4. The authority gi-anted in section 1 of this Act to execute 
said contract shall terminate on December 31,1957. 
SEC. 5. This Act is declared to be a part of the Federal reclama-
tion laws as they are defined in the Eeclamation Project Act of 1939 
(53 Stat. 1187). 
Approved January 28, 1956. 
January 28, 1956 
[S. 2170] 
Public Law 395 
CHAPTER 14 
AN ACT 
To permit sale of Comniodity Credit Corporation stocks of basic and storable 
nonbasic agricultural commodities without restriction where similar commodi-
ties are exported in raw or processed form. 
A g r i c u l t u r a l 
conunodities, sale. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 407