Permitting the Secretary of the Interior to continue to deliver water to lands in the third division, Riverton reclamation project, Wyoming. Riverton recla mation project, Wyo. Water delivery. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That pending completion of a repayment contract or the enactment of other legislation providing for the furnishing of water to lands of the third division, Riverton reclamation project, Wyoming, the Secretary is authorized to continue to furnish water to the lands in such division, during calendar year 1963, as under the provisions of section 9, subsection (d) (1), of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187, 1195: 43 U.S.C. 485h (d)) but without regard to the time limitation therein 76 Stat. 407. specified. Water shall be furnished upon individual applications accompanied by payments of $4 per acre for the first three acre-feet per acre with water in excess of that amount at $2 per acre-foot. The portion of the operation and maintenance costs in excess of the total of such payments is hereby declared to be nonreimbursable and nonreturnable. Approved April 19, 1963. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORT No. 119 (Interior & Insular Affairs Comm.). Insular Affairs Comm.). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 109: Apr. 1, 1963; Passed House. Apr. 9, 1963; Considered and passed Senate (in lieu of S. 982). 88th Congress, H. R. 2821 An Act 77 STAT. 67. To authorize modification of the repayment contract with the Grand Valley modification. 43 USC 485g. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Grand Valley of the Interior is authorized, pursuant to subsection 8(i) of the Act Water Users' of August 4, 1939 (53 Stat. 1187), to modify the contractual obligation Association, of the Grand Valley Water Users' Association (1) by deducting from Colo., contract such obligation the unaccrued construction charges in the amount of $109,158.19 against one thousand three hundred sixty-six and twotenths acres originally classified as productive and now reclassified as permanently unproductive; (2) by crediting to the next annual installment from the Grand Valley Water Users Association due to the United States under its contract of January 27, 1945, after enactment of this Act, the sum of $4,531.93, which represents construction charges paid by the association on one hundred twenty-three and sixtenths acres of land in canceled farm units included in the above acreage. Approved June 21, 1963. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORT No. 73 (Interior & Insular Affairs Comm.). Mar. 18: Passed House. June 17: Considered and passed Senate. 88th Congress, H. R. 131 An Act 77 STAT. 68. To provide for the renewal of certain municipal, domestic, and industrial water supply contracts entered into under the Reclamation Project Act of 1939, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Reclamation proj of the Interior shall, upon request of the other party to any long-term eats. contract for municipal, domestic, or industrial water supply hereafter Renewal of cerentered into under clause (2) in the proviso to the first sentence of tain contracts. section 9, subsection (c), of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1195, 43 U.S.C. 485h), include provision for renewal thereof subject to renegotiation of (1) the charges set forth in the contract in the light of circumstances prevailing at the time of renewal and (2) any other matters with respect to which the right to renegotiate is reserved in the contract. Any right of renewal shall be exercised within such reasonable time prior to the expiration of the contract as the parties shall have agreed upon and set forth therein. SEC. 2. The Secretary shall also, upon like request, provide in any such long-term contract or in any contract entered into under clause (1) of the proviso aforesaid that the other party to the contract shall, during the term of the contract and of any renewal thereof and subject to fulfillment of all obligations thereunder, have a first right for the purposes stated in the contract (to which right the holders of any other type of contract for municipal, domestic, or industrial water supply shall be subordinate) to a stated share or quantity of the project's water supply available for municipal, domestic, or industrial 1188. SEC. 3. The Secretary is hereby authorized, upon request by the other party, to negotiate amendments to existing contracts entered into pursuant to the first sentence of section 9, subsection (c), of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 to conform said contracts to the provisions of this Act. SEC. 4. As used in this Act, the term "long-term contract" means any contract the term of which is more than ten years. Approved June 21, 1963. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORT No. 84 (Interior & Insular Affairs Comm.). Apr. 1: Passed House. June 19: Considered and passed Senate. 36-929 O - 79 - 20 88th Congress, H. R. 5367 An Act 77 STAT. 75. To designate the Bear Creek Dam on the Lehigh River, Pennsylvania, as the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the dam known Francis E. Walter as the Bear Creek Dam authorized to be constructed on the Lehigh Dam. River in the Delaware River Basin in the State of Pennsylvania by the Designation. Approved July 8, 1963. LEGISLATIVE_HISTORY: SENATE REPORT No. 272 (Public Works Comm.). Apr. 4: Passed House. 88th Congress, H. J. Res. 82 Joint Resolution 77 STAT. 79. To change the name of Short Mountain Lock and Dum and Reservoir in the Resolved by the Senate and IIouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Short Mountain Robert S. Kerr Lock and Dam and Reservoir on the Arkansas River in the State of Lock and Dam Oklahoma shall be known as Robert S. Kerr Lock and Dam and and Reservoir. Reservoir in honor of the late Senator Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma. Designation. Any law, regulation, document, or record of the United States in which such project is referred to by any other name shall be held and considered to refer to such project by the name of Robert S. Kerr Lock and Dam and Reservoir. Approved July 8, 1963. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORT No. 220 (Public Works Comm.). May 6: Considered and passed House, |