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(4) By amending the second sentence of subsection (b) of section 4 to read as follows: "In addition, land sale and exchange contracts shall be on a basis that, in the Secretary's judgment, provides for the return, in a reasonable period of years, of not less than the appraised value of the land and improvements thereon, and provides, in the case of any lands to be included in farm units, for the application of provisions similar to those of the recordable contracts provided under subsection 2 (c) hereof."

Approved September 26, 1950.

[PUBLIC LAW 851-81ST CONGRESS]
[CHAPTER 1060-2D SESSION]
[H. R. 1920]

AN ACT

To amend the Columbia Basin Project Act with reference to State lands.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the second paragraph of section 7 of the Columbia Basin Project Act (Act of March 10, 1943, ch. 14, 57 Stat. 14) be amended to read as follows: "Legislation otherwise conforming to the standards above stated in this section will meet the requirements of the section even though, by reason of limitations in the State constitution, the contracts required under subsection 2 (c) cannot be executed pursuant to such legislation as to the State's school and other public lands. As to such lands the provisions and requirements of subsection 2 (c) shall remain effective, except that the purchaser of such State lands, his heirs and devisees, if otherwise qualified to execute a recordable contract, shall not be disqualified to execute such contract by reason of the amount of the purchase price paid or to be paid to the State for such lands; but the period in which the required recordable contracts may be executed shall be extended: (a) As to any of such lands remaining in the ownership of the State, until six months after the removal of the constitutional limitations above referred to; and (b) as to any of such lands which are offered for sale by the State in accordance with such program for the offering of State lands within the project as may be agreed to between the State and the Secretary, until six months after the State's conveyance or contract to convey is made, whichever is earlier."

Chapter 443 - 2d Session

S. 97

AN ACT

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To authorize the construction, operation, and maintenance of facilities for generating hydroelectric power at the Cheatham Dam on the Cumberland River in Tennessee.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the compre- Cheatham hensive plan of improvement of the Cumberland River and tributaries Dam, Tenn. for navigation, flood control, power development, and other purposes

authorized by section 1 of the Act of Congress of July 24, 1946 (Pub- 60 Stat, 636. lic Law 525, Seventy-ninth Congress), is hereby amended to include the construction, operation, and maintenance under the direction of the Secretary of the Army and supervision of the Chief of Engineers of hydroelectric power generating facilities (including step-up switchboard) at the Cheatham Dam on the Cumberland River in Tennessee and there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $18,200,000 for carrying out the purposes of this Act. Approved June 19, 1952.

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To change the name of the South Coulee Dam in the Columbia Basin project

to Dry Falls Dam,

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the South Coulee Dam Dry Fails in the Columbia Basin project shall hereafter be known as Dry Falls Dam. Dam and any law, regulation, document, or record of the United States in which such dam is designated or referred to under the name South Coulee Dam shall be held to refer to such dam under and by the name of Dry Falls Dam.

Approved July 10, 1952.

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82d Congress
Chapter 700 - 2d Session
H. R. 3209

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Amending section 25 of the Tennessee. Valley Authority Act of 1983, as amended.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the fourth TVA. sentence of section 25 of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933, Commissioners. as amended (48 Stat. 70; 16 U. S. C., sec. 831x), is hereby amended to read as follows: "Such commissioners shall receive a per diem of not to exceed $30 for their services, together with an additional amount of not to exceed $10 per day for subsistence for time actually spent in performing their duties as commissioners, and reimbursement of actual transportation expenses including an allowance for use of privately owned automobiles at a rate not to exceed 7 cents per mile.'

Approved July 12, 1952.

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Chapter 925 2d Session
H. R. 6163

AN ACT

To provide for authorization of a study and report of irrigation works in connection with Chief Joseph Dam.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Chief Joseph of the Interior is authorized to proceed in relation to the Chief Joseph Dam project. Dam project on the Columbia River, Washington, initially authorized Study and reby section 1 of the Act of July 24, 1946 (60 Stat. 637), in accordance port of prowith the provisions of this Act to make a study and report to Con- posed reclame. gress on means of providing financial and other assistance in the reclamation of arid lands in the general vicinity of the project. In making such study and report the Secretary shall be guided by the provisions of applicable laws.

SEC. 2. The report of the Secretary of the Interior shall state, among other things, the construction cost of the proposed works, including said authorized project and proposed reclamation units; the portions of said cost allocable to various functions; the operation and maintenance costs of all functions (of the project); the amount of the construction cost allocable to irrigation which the irrigators may reasonably be expected to repay, together with the proposed charges for water service and proposed repayment period upon the irrigation allocation; the amount of the cost allocable to irrigation in excess of that which the irrigators can repay, which the Secretary proposes shall be recovered from power revenues; the proposed charges for power, and proposed repayment period on the amount allocable to power; the proposed interest rate on the power investment, and the disposition which the Secretary proposes to make of the interest component and other components of the power revenues; the unrecovered cost to the Federal Treasury of the works proposed, in connection with the means of financing recommended by the Secretary; the ratio of net costs to net benefits; the ratio of net benefits per acre to irrigators' repayment per acre; and a complete financial analysis of repayment program together with all other data reasonably required to enable the Congress to pass upon the economic feasibility of the proposed works.

tion works.

SEC. 8. Any such reclamation works proposed to be constructed under the study authorized by this Act may be undertaken only after the Secretary of the Interior has submitted a report and findings thereon under section 2 of this Act and section 9 of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187), and only if the works so reported 43 U.S.C. on are thereafter specifically authorized by Act of Congress.

485h.

SEC. 4. Nothing in this Act shall modify in any way the require 66 Stat, 753, ments and provisions of existing laws with respect to the availability 66 Stat. 754, of funds for construction and operation and maintenance of the Chief

Joseph Dam and power plant.

Approved July 17, 1952.

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To amend section 202 of the Federal Power Act, with respect to the jurisdiction
of the Federal Power Commission over persons and facilities engaged in the
transmission or sale of electric energy to foreign countries.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 202 of Electric emig, part II of the Federal Power Act is hereby amended by adding at the transmission of end thereof the following subsection: sale.

"(f) The ownership or operation of facilities for the transmission 49 Stat. 847, or sale at wholesale of electric energy which is (a) generated within 16 USC 8246, a State and transmitted from that State across an international boundary and not thereafter transmitted into any other State, or (b) generated in a foreign country and transmitted across an international boundary into a State and not thereafter transmitted into any other State, shall not make a person a public utility subject to regulation as such under other provisions of this part. The State within which any such facilities are located may regulate any such transaction insofar as such State regulation does not conflict with the exercise of the Commission's powers under or relating to subsection 202 (e)."

Approved August 7, 1953.

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