An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Norman project, Oklahoma, and for other purposes.
PL 86-529 (S.1892), enacted 06/27/1960

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Public Law 86-529 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain 
the Norman project, Oklahoma, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Amsrica in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary 
of the Interior is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain the 
Norman Federal reclamation project, Oklahoma, in accordance with 
the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17,1902, and Acts amenda-
tory thereof or supplemental thereto), except so far as those laws 
are inconsistent with this Act, for the principal purposes of storing, 
regulating, and furnishing water for municipal, domestic, and indus-
trial use, and for controlling floods, and, as incidents to the foregoing 
for the additional purposes of regulating the flow of the Little River, 
providing for the conservation and development of flsh and wildlife, 
and of enhancing recreational opportunities. 
The Norman project 
shall consist of the following principal work: K reservoir on Little 
River near Norman, Oklahoma, pumping plants, pipelines, and other 
conduits for furnishing water for municipal, domestic, and industrial 
use. 
The Secretary may enter into suitable contracts with municipal 
organizations, or other organizations as defined in section 2, Reclama-
tion Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187), to undertake with non-
Federal financing the construction of pumping plants, pipelines, and 
other conduits, or of any of such works, for furnishing w\ater for 
municipal, domestic, and industrial use, and to advance to such organi-
zations during the construction period funds to cover an appropriate 
share of the costs thereof attributable to furnishing water to Tinker 
Air Force Base. 
SEC. 2. In constructing, operating, and maintaining the Norman 
project, the Secretary shall allocate proper costs tliereof in accordance 
with the following conditions: 
(a) Allocations to flood control, recreation, and the conservation 
and development of fish and wildlife and water supply for Tinker Air 
Force Base shall be nonreturnable. 
(b) Allocations to municipal water supply, including domestic, 
manufacturing, and industrial uses, with the exception of that for 
Tinker Air Force Base, shall be repayable to the United States by 
the water users through contracts with municipal corporations, or 
other organizations as defined by section 2, Reclamation Project Act 
of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187), under the provisions of the Federal reclama-
tion laws, and to the extent appropriate, under the Water Supply Act 
of 1958. Such contracts shall be precedent to the commencement of 
construction of any project unit affecting the individual municipali-
ties, and shall provide for repayment of construction costs allocated to 
municipal water supply in not to exceed fifty years from the date 
water is first delivered for that purpose: Provided^ That the water 
users' organization be responsible for the disposal and sale of all water 
surplus to its requirements, and that the revenues therefrom shall be 
used by the organization for the retirement of project debt payment, 
payment of interest, and payment of operation and maintenance cost. 
The interest rate used for purposes of computing interest during con-
struction and interest on the unpaid balance shall be determined by 
the Secretary of the Treasury, as of the beginning of the fiscal year 
in which construction is initiated, on the basis of the computed average 
interest rate payable by the Treasury upon its outstanding marketable 
public obligations, which are neither due nor callable for redemption 
for fifteen years from date of issue. 
June 27, 1960 
[S. 18S'2] 
Norman project, 
Okla. 
Construc1:ion. 
43 use 
seq. 
Contracts. 
43 u s e 485a. 
Conditions. 
43 u s e 4S:5a. 
72 Stat. 319. 
43 u s e 390b and 
note. 
48232 0-61-15 
PUBLIC LAW 86-629-JUNE 27, 1960 
[74 ST AtT. 
53 Stat. 1193. 
43 u s e 485h. 
Transfer 
eration. 
of op-
C o n s t r u c t i o n 
limitation. 
Recreational fa-
cilities. 
67 Stat. 266. 
AppropKation. 
Limitation. 
(c) Upon the completion of the payment of the water users' con-
struction cost obligation, together with the interest thereon, the water 
users shall have a permanent right to the use of that portion of the 
project allocable to municipal water supply purposes, subject, if the 
project is then operated by the United States, to payment of a reason-
able annual charge by the Secretary of the Interior sufficient to pay 
all operation and maintenance charges and a fair share of the admin-
istrative costs applicable to the project. 
SEC. 3. Contracts may be entered into with the water users' organi-
zation pursuant to the provisions of this Act without regard to the last 
sentence of subsection (c) of section 9 of the Reclamation Project Act 
of 1939. 
SEC. 4. The Secretary is authorized to transfer to the project water 
users the care, operation, and maintenance of the works herein author-
ized, and, if such transfer is made, to deduct from the obligation of the 
water users the reasonable capitalized equivalent of that portion of the 
estimated operation and maintenance cost of the undertaking which, 
if the United States continues to operate the project, would be allo-
cated to flood control and fish and wildlife purposes. 
Prior to taking 
over the care, operation, and maintenance of said works, the water 
users' organization shall obligate itself to operate them in accordance 
with criteria specified by the Secretary of the Army with respect to 
flood control and the Secretary of the Interior with respect to fish and 
wildlife: Provided^ That operation and maintenance and replacement 
cost of furnishing water supply to Tinker Air Force Base, as contem-
plated in the plan of development, shall be provided by an appro-
priate agreement between the Secretary of Defense and the water 
users' organization. 
SEC. 5. Construction of the Norman project herein authorized may 
be undertaken in such units or stages as in the opinion of the Secre-
tary best serves the project requirements and the relative needs for 
water of the several municipal users. Repayment contracts negoti-
ated in connection with each unit or stage of construction shall be 
subject to the terms and conditions of section 2 of this Act. 
SEC. 6. The Secretary may, upon conclusion of a suitable agreement 
with any qualified agency of the State of Oklahoma or a political 
subdivision thereof for assumption of the administration, operation, 
and maintenance thereof at the earliest practicable date, construct or 
permit the construction of public park and recreational facilities on 
lands owned by the United States adjacent to the reservoirs of the 
Norman project, when such use is determined by the Secretary not to 
be contrary to the public interest, all under such rules and regulations 
as the Secretary may prescribe. 
No recreational use of any area to 
which this section applies shall be permitted which is inconsistent 
with the laws of the State of Oklahoma for the protection of fish and 
game and the protection of the public health, safety, and welfare. 
The Federal costs of constructing the facilities authorized by this 
section shall be limited to the nonreimbursable costs of the Norman 
project for minimum basic recreational facilities as determined by 
the Secretary. 
SEC. 7. Expenditures for the Norman Reservoir may be made with-
out regard to the soil survey and land classification requirements of 
the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1954 (43 U.S.C. 390a). 
SEC. 8. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for con-
struction of the works authorized by this Act not to exceed $19,042,-
000, plus or minus such amounts, if any, as may be justified by reason 
of ordmary fluctuation in construction costs as indicated by engineer-
ing cost indices applicable to the type of construction involved herein: 
Provided. That such basic amount shall not exceed $12,920,000 in the 
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event the aqueduct system is not constructed by the Federal Govern-
ment. 
There are also authorized to be appropriated such sums as 
may be required for the operation and maintenance of said works. 
SEC. 9. Section 5(f) of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the 
Colorado River storage project and participating projects, and for 
other purposes", approved April 11, 1956 (70 Stat. 109), is amended 
effective June 1, 1960, to read as follows: "The interest rate appli-
cable to each unit of the storage project and each participating project 
for purposes of computing interest during construction and inter-
est on the unpaid balance shall be determined by the Secretary of the 
Treasury, as of the beginning of the fiscal year in which construction 
is initiated, on the basis of the computed average interest rate pay-
able by the Treasury upon its outstanding mametable public obli-
gations, which are neither due nor callable for redemption for fifteen 
years from the date of issue." 
Approved June 27, 1960. 
43 u s e 62Od. 
Interest rate. 
Public Law 86-530 
AN A C T 
jiaie 27, 1960 
To amend sections 1 and 5b of the Life Insurance Act for the District of 
[H. R. 10684] 
Columbia. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled, That (a) subpara-
graph (i) of paragraph (1) of subsection (c) of section 1 of chapter 
V of the Life Insurance Act (D.C. Code, section 35-701 (c) (1) (i)) 
is amended to read as follows: 
"(i) For all ordinary policies of life insurance issued on the stand-
ard basis, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits in 
such policies, the Commissioners 1941 Standard Ordinary Mortality 
Table for such policies issued prior to the operative date of the last 
paragraph of section 5b(d) of this chapter, and the Commissioners 
1958 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table for such policies issued on 
or after such operative date; provided that for any category of such 
policies issued on female risks all modified net premiums and present 
values referred to in this section may be calculated according to an age 
not more than three years younger than the actual age of the insured." 
(b) Clause (B) of paragraph (2) of such subsection (D.C. Code, 
sec. 35-701 (c) (2) (B))~ is amended to read as follows: 
"(B) A net one-year term premium for such benefits provided for 
in the first policy year. 
"Eeserves according to the Commissioners reserve valuation method 
for (i) life-insurance policies providing for a varying amount of in-
surance or requiring the payment of varying premiums, (ii) annuity 
and pure endowment contracts, (iii) disability and accidental death 
benefits in all policies and contracts, and (iv) all other benefits, except 
life insurance and endowment benefits in life-insurance policies, shall 
be calculated by a method consistent with the principles of this para-
graph (2), except that any extra premiums charged because of im-
pairments or special hazards shall be disregarded in the determination 
of modified net premiums." 
SEC. 2. (a) Subsection (d) of section 5b of chapter V of the Life 
Insurance Act (D.C. Code, sec. 35-705b(d)) is amended to read as 
follows: 
L i f e Insuranc e 
Act, D. C. 
Amendment. 
62 Stat. 28. 
Mortality tsibles. 
62 Stat. 32. 
Female risks. 
62 Stat. 29. 
Reserve v a lu a-
tlon. 
62 Stat. 32.