An Act to amend the Act of August 20, 1954 (68 Stat. 752), in order to provide for the construction, operation, and maintenance of additional features of the Talent division of the Rogue River Basin reclamation project, Oregon
PL 87-727 (S.1023), enacted 10/01/1962

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Public Law 87-727 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act of August 20, 1954 (68 Stat. 752), in order to provide for the 
construction, operation, and maintenance of additional features of the Talent 
division of the Rogue River Basin reclamation project, Oregon. 
October I, 1962 
[S. 1023] 
43 u s e 371 
note. 
Recreation fa-
cilities. 
Be it ena,cted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That, in addition to 
Agate D
a
m and 
the works described in section 1 of the Act of August 20, 1954 (68 ^cfonIt°mct?on^au-
Stat. 752), the Secretary of the Interior, acting pursuant to the Fed- thority. 
eral reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts 
amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto), is authorized to con-
struct, operate, and maintain as a part of the Talent division of the 
Rogue River Basin project, Oregon, the following works: Agate Dam 
and Reservoir, a diversion dam, feeder canals, and related facilities. 
SEC. 2. (a) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in connection 
with the works authorized by this Act, to construct minimum basic 
public recreation facilities and to arrange for the operation and 
maintenance of the same by an appropriate State or local agency or 
organization. 
The cost of constructing such facilities shall be non-
reimbursable and nonreturnable under the reclamation laws. 
(b) The Secretary may make such reasonable provision in the 
works authorized by this Act as he finds to be required for the con-
servation and development of fish and wildlife in accordance with the 
provisions of the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (48 Stat. 401, 
as amended; 16 U.S.C., sec. 661, and the following), and the portion 
of the construction costs allocated to these purposes together with an 
appropriate share of the operation, maintenance, and replacement 
costs therefor, shall be nonreimbursable and nonreturnable. 
SEC. 3. (a) Section 3 of the Act of August 20, 1954, supra, is 
amended by inserting after the figure "$22,900,000" the following: 
", and for the construction of Agate Dam and Reservoir the sum of 
$1,802,000 (January 1960 costs), in each case". 
(b) Section 2, subsection (c) of said Act is amended by deleting 
the final period and adding to the last sentence "from the date when 
each irrigation repayment contract becomes effective." 
Approved October 1, 1962. 
Fish and wild-
life. 
60 Stat. 1080. 
Public Law 87-728 
AN ACT 
To approve an amendatory repayment contract negotiated with the Quincy 
Columbia Basin Irrigation District, authorize similar contracts with any of 
the Columbia Basin Irrigation Districts, and to amend the Columbia Basin 
Project Act of 1943 (57 Stat. 14), as amended, and for other purposes. 
October 1, 1962 
[H. R. 11164] 
Be it enacted hy the SeTiate and House of Bepresentatifves of the 
United States of Amsrica in Congress assembled.^ That the amendatory 
repayment contract with the Quincy Columbia Basin Irrigation Dis-
trict negotiated by the Secretary of the Interior, pursuant to subsec-
tion (a) of section 7 of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 
1192; 43 U.S.C, 485f), which contract was approved by the district 
electors on February 13, 1962, is hereby approved and the Secretary 
is hereby authorized to execute it on behalf of the United States and 
to negotiate and execute on behalf of the United States amendatory 
repayment contracts in substantially the same form or amendatory 
repayment contracts containing substantially the same provisions with 
the South and East Columbia Basin Irrigation Districts. 
Quincy Colum-
bia Basin Irriga-
tion District. 
Repayment con-
tracts.