An Act to provide for the construction by the Secretary of the Interior of the Bully Creek Dam and other facilities, Vale Federal reclamation project, Oregon
PL 86-248 (H.R.968), enacted 09/09/1959

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PUBLIC LAW 86-248-SEPT. 9, 1959 
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Public Law 86-248 
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AN ACT 
September 9, 1959 
[H. R. 968] 
To provide for the construction by the Secretary of the Interior of the Bully 
Creek Dam and other facilities, Vale Federal reclamation project, Oregon. 
Vale 
F e d e r a l 
reclamation proj-
ect, Oreg. B u l l y 
Creek extension. 
43 use 372-498 
passim. 
53 Stat. 1195. 
Recreation f 
acil-
i t i e s , additional 
land. 
Authorization. 
Appropri ation 
authorization. 
Appropri ation 
authorization. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assenibled^ That the Secretary 
of the Interior is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain the 
Bully Creek Dam, Reservoir, and related minor facilities as features 
of the Vale Federal reclamation project, Oregon. In so doing, he 
shall be governed by the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 
1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary 
thereto). 
Said construction, however, shall not be commenced until 
the Vale Oregon Irrigation District shall have obligated itself to 
repay such portions of the Federal costs of constructing, operating, 
and maintaining the facilities herein authorized as the Secretary finds 
properly allocable to irrigation: Provided^ That the peripd provided 
in subsection (d) of section 9 of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939, 
as amended, for repayment of the construction costs assigned to be 
repaid by the irrigators may be extended to fifty years. 
SEC. 2. (a) The Secretary is authorized, in connection with the works 
lierein authorized, to construct basic public recreation facilities and to 
arrange for the operation and maintenance of the same by an appro-
priate State or local agency or organization. 
He is also authorized to 
acquire approximately ten acres of land near Bully Creek Dam for 
recreation purposes. 
(b) In addition to those costs of constructing the works authorized 
in this Act which the Secretary finds to be properly allocable to flood 
control, recreation, and the preservation and propagation of fish and 
wildlife, those costs of operating and maintaining the works, or the 
reasonable capitalized value of the equivalent thereof, which are al-
located by the Secretary to these purposes shall be nonreimbursable 
and nonreturnable under the reclamation laws. 
Before the works 
are transferred to the Vale Oregon Irrigation District for care, oper-
ation, and maintenance, the district shall have agreed to operate them 
in such fashion, satisfactory to the Secretary, as to achieve the benefits 
on which these allocations are predicated and to return the works to 
the United States for care, operation, and maintenance in the event 
of failure to comply with its requirements to achieve such benefits. 
SEC. 3. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for construc-
tion of the Bully Creek extension of the Vale Federal reclamation 
project the sum of $3,326,000 plus or minus such amounts, if any, as 
may be justified by reason of ordinary fluctuations in the costs of 
construction as indicated by engineering cost indexes applicable to 
the type of construction involved herein. There are also authorized to 
be appropriated such sums as may be required for the operation and 
maintenance of said works. 
SEC. 4. That the modification of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway-
Channel to Port Mansfield, Texas, is hereby authorized substantially 
in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers 
contained in Senate Document 11, of the Eighty-sixth Congress, at an 
estimated cost of $3,431,000. 
SEC. 5. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums 
as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of section 4 of this 
Act. 
Approved September 9, 1959.