An Act to amend the Act of September 16, 1959 (73 Stat. 561; 43 U.S.C. 615s), relating to the construction, operation, and maintenance of the Spokane Valley project
PL 87-630 (S.2008), enacted 09/05/1962

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PUBLIC LAW 87-630-SEPT. 5, 1962 
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such expenditures, and carry out the responsibilities of the Secretary 
under the provisions of this Act. 
SEC. 10. When the distribution of tribal assets in accordance with 
the provisions of this Act has been completed, the Secretary of the 
Interior shall publish in the Federal Kegister a proclamation declar-
ing that the Federal trust relationship to such tribe and its members 
has terminated. Thereafter, the tribe and its members shall not be 
entitled to any of the special services performed by the United States 
for Indians or Indian tribes because or their Indian status, all statutes 
of the United States that affect Indians or Indian tribes because of 
their Indian status shall be inapplicable to them, and the laws of the 
several States shall apply to them in the same manner they apply to 
other persons or citizens within their jurisdiction. Nothmg in this 
Act, however, shall affect the status of any Indian as a citizen of the 
United States. 
Approved September 6, 1962. 
Publication 
In F. R. 
Public Law 87-630 
A N A C T 
Septembers, 1962 
To amend the Act of September 16, 1959 (73 Stat. 561; 43 U.S.C. 615s), relating 
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to the construction, operation, and maintenance of the SiK>kane Valley project. 
tion project, 
Wash.-Idaho. 
43 u s e 371 
note. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Act of 
spokane vaiiey 
September 16, 1959 (73 Stat. 561, 43 U.S.C. 615s), be amended as ^,*l*:;l,f„*=/^°-
follows: 
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(a) By substituting in section 1 thereof the words "seven thousand 
two hundred and fifty" for the words "ten thousand three hundred" 
and by inserting the words "and for domestic, municipal, and indus-
trial uses" after the words "the State of Idaho" in this same section. 
(b) By amending section 2 to read as follows: "In constructing, 
operating, and maintaining the Spokane Valley project, the Secretary 
shall be governed by the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 
1902, 32 Stat. 388, and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary 
thereto), except that (1) interest on the unpaid balance of the alloca-
tion to domestic, municipal, and industrial water supply shall be at a 
rate 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; and 
(2) the remaining cost of the project beyond the amount to be reim-
bursed or returned by the water users shall be accounted for in the 
same manner as provided in item (c) of section 2 of the Act of July 
27,1954 (68 Stat. 568), and power and energy required for irrigation 
pumping for the Spokane Valley project shall be made available in 
the same manner as provided for therein. The amount to be repaid 
by the irrigators shall be collected by the contracting entity through 
a^inual assessments based upon combination turnout and acreage 
charges and through the use of such other^ methods as it and the 
Secretary "may agree upon." 
(c) By deleting from section 3 thereof the figure "$5,100,000" and 
inserting in lieu thereof the figure "$7,232,000". 
Approved September 6, 1962.