46 Stat. 163

WATER FOR UNCOMPAHGRE PROJECT, SEASON OF 1930

Joint resolution to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to deliver water during the irrigation season of 1930 on the Uncompahgre project, Colorado. (Pub. Res. No. 62 [S. J. Res. 151], 71st Cong., 2d sess., April 12, 1930.)

[Economic study on Uncompahgre project-Delivery of water to those paying one annual installment of construction charge and current operation and maintenance charges.]-Whereas an economic study is now in progress on the Uncompahgre project, Colorado, constructed and operated under the act of June 17, 1902 (Thirty-second Statutes at. Large, page 388), and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, looking to the adjustment of water-right charges and the execution of a new contract with the water users of that project, and Whereas the necessary action can not be completed before the beginning of the irrigation season of 1930: Now therefore be it

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to deliver water during the irrigation season of 1930 to any water user on the Uncompahgre project, Colorado, who pays or causes to be paid, in the manner and at the time prescribed by said Secretary one regular annual installment of construction charge and the current operation and maintenance charges, notwithstanding any delinquencies.

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46 Stat. 171

DESERT-LAND ENTRIES IN RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA An act to exempt from cancellation certain desert-land entries in Riverside County, California. (Act April 17, 1930, Pub. No. 136, 71st Cong., 2d sess.)

[Desert-land entries not to be canceled prior to May 1, 1933—Annual assessments and final proof-Further extension.]-That no desert-land entry heretofore made in good faith under the public land laws for lands in townships 4 and 5 south, range 15 east; townships 4 and 5 south, range 16 east; townships 4, 5, and 6 south, range 17 east; townships 5, 6, and 7 south, range 18 east; townships 6 and 7 south, range 19 east; townships 6 and 7 south, range 20 east; townships 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 south, range 21 east; townships 5, 6, and sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 18, and 19, township 7 south, range 22 east; township 5 south, range 23 east, San Bernardino meridian, in Riverside County, State of California, shall be canceled prior to May 1, 1933, because of failure on the part of the entrymen to make any annual or final proof falling due upon any such entry prior to said date. The requirements of law as to annual assessments and final proof shall become operative from said date as though no suspension had been made. If the said entrymen are unable to procure water to irrigate the said lands above described through no fault of theirs, after using due diligence, or the legal questions as to their right to divert or impound water for the irrigation of said lands are still pending and undetermined by said May 1, 1933, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to grant a further extension for an additional period of not exceeding five years.

46 Stat. 222

ENGINEERING AND ECONOMIC INVESTIGATIONS IN PALO VERDE AND CIBOLA VALLEYS ON COLORADO RIVER

An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to make engineering and economic investigations and studies of conditions in Palo Verde and Cibola Valleys and vicinity on the Colorado River, and for other purposes. (Act April 19, 1930, Pub. No. 149, 71st Cong., 2d sess.)

[Studies in California and Arizona for protection of lands from damage by overflow and seepage-Report.]-That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to make all necessary engineering and economic investigations and studies of conditions in the Palo Verde and Cibola Valleys and vicinity on the Colorado River in California and Arizona to determine how best to protect the lands in this vicinity from damage by overflow and seepage. Report shall be made and plans and estimates prepared showing cost of additional works necessary, together with a statement of the value of works already constructed which can be merged with and made a part of a completed system.

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46 Stat. 249

AMENDMENT OF SECTION 43 OF THE ADJUSTMENT ACT OF MAY 25, 1926

An act to amend section 43 of the act of May 25, 1926, entitled "An act to adjust waterright charges, to grant certain other relief on the Federal irrigation projects, and for other purposes." (Act April 23, 1930, Pub. No. 161, 71st Cong., 2d sess.)

[Suspension of construction charges against areas temporarily unproductive Payments made credited to construction charge-Credits-Delivery of water-Permanently unproductive lands.]-That section 43 of the act of May 25, 1926, entitled "An act to adjust water-right charges, to grant certain other relief on the Federal irrigation projects, and for other purposes" (Forty-fourth Statutes, page 636) be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 43. The payment of all construction charges against said areas temporarily unproductive shall remain suspended until the Secretary of the Interior shall declare them to be possessed of sufficient productive power properly to be placed in a paying class, whereupon payment of construction charges against such areas shall be resumed or shall begin, as the case may be. Any payments made on such areas shall be credited to the unpaid balance of the construction charge on the productive area of each unit. Such credit shall be applied on and after the passage and approval of this act, which shall not be construed to require revision of accounts heretofore adjusted under the provisions of this section as originally enacted. While said lands so classified as temporarily unproductive and the construction charges against them are suspended, water for irrigation purposes may be furnished upon payment of the usual operation and maintenance charges, or such other charges as may be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior the advance payment of which may be required, in the discretion of the said Secretary. Should said lands temporarily classed as unproductive, or any of them, in the future be found by the Secretary of the Interior to be permanently unproductive, the charges against them shall be charged off as a permanent loss to the reclamation fund and they shall thereupon be treated in the same manner as other permanently unproductive lands as provided in this act except that no refund shall be made of the construction charges paid on such unproductive areas and applied as a credit on productive areas as herein authorized."

46 Stat. 279

SPECIAL PROVISIONS OF THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION ACT FOR 1931

[Extracts from] An act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, and for other purposes. (Act May 14, 1930, Pub. No. 217, 71st Cong., 2d sess.)

CONTINGENT EXPENSES, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the bureaus and offices of the department; * * * stationery, including tags, labels, index cards, cloth-lined wrappers, and specimen bags, printed in the course of manufacture, and such printed envelopes as are not supplied under contracts made by the Postmaster General, for the department and its several bureaus and offices, and other absolutely necessary expenses not hereinbefore provided for, $122,000; and, in addition thereto, sums amounting to $75,500 for stationery supplies shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year 1931, as follows: * Bureau of Reclamation, $12,000, any unexpended portion of which shall revert and be credited to the reclamation fund; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to and constitute, together with the first-named sum of $122,000, the total appropriation for contingent expenses for the department and its several bureaus and offices for the fiscal year 1931.

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For the purchase or exchange of professional and scientific books, law and medical books, and books to complete broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department by the several offices and bureaus of the Interior Department herein named, $500, and in addition there is hereby made available from any appropriations made for such bureau or office not to exceed the following respective sums: * * * Bureau of Reclamation, $2,000; * *

BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS

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For payment of annual installment of reclamation charges against Paiute Indian lands within the Newlands reclamation project, Nevada, $4,421; and for payment in advance, as provided by district law, of operation and maintenance assessments, including assessments for the operation of drains to the Truckee-Carson irrigation district, which district, under contract, is operating the Newlands reclamation project, $11,020 to be immediately available; in all, $15,441.

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