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pality pursuant to section 9 of this Act: Provided further, That the electrical energy delivered hereunder to the municipality in any one year shall not exceed eighty million kilowatt-hours, less such energy as is required by the United States for pumping water delivered to the municipality pursuant to section 9 of this Act, and that this amount shall be reduced in any year in which there is a deficiency in electrical energy available from the Boulder Canyon project in the same proportion as firm energy delivered to allottees is reduced in such year below firm energy as defined in said general regulations.

SEC. 9. (a) Because of its climate and its location with respect to the only source of water, Boulder City faces extraordinary difficulties in connection with a domestic water supply. In recognition of this fact, the existing water supply system from Hoover Dam to, but not including, the Boulder City storage tanks shall be retained by the United States and shall be operated and maintained by the Secretary in order to supply water to the municipality at said storage tanks, for domestic, industrial, and municipal purposes, at a maximum rate of delivery of three thousand six hundred and fifty gallons a minute: Provided, That the cost of supplying such water, to the extent of not more than $150,000 in any one year, shall be borne as provided in subsection (c) of this section: Provided further, That the municipality shall assume (i) all additional costs of supplying water under this section and (ii) all costs of filtration and treatment of water supplied under this section. There shall be no charge under the contract between the United States and the State of Nevada dated March 30, 1942, as amended, for water delivered in accordance with this section. Such delivery shall be subject to the availability of water for use in the State of Nevada under the provisions of the Colorado River compact and the Project Act and, except as hereinabove provided with respect to the charge for water, shall be in accordance with the terms of the aforesaid contract.

(b) As of the end of each year of project operation, or fraction thereof, after incorporation of the municipality, the Secretary shall determine the number of all persons employed in the construction, operation, and maintenance of the project and the number of all persons employed by the United States for purposes other than the construction, operation, and maintenance of the project.

(c) The Secretary shall divide the cost for each year of project operation, or fraction thereof, after the incorporation of the municipality, of supplying water under subsection (a) of this section into two parts. The first such part shall bear the same ratio to the second such part as the number of all persons employed in the construction, operation, and maintenance of the project, as determined by the Secretary under subsection (b) of this section, bears to the number of all persons employed by the United States for purposes other than construction, operation, and maintenance of the project, as determined by the Secretary under subsection (b) of this section. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection, the first part as aforesaid shall in no instance exceed 65 per centum of the total cost of furnishing water under subsection (a) of this section. Such total cost, less a sum equal to part 1 as aforesaid, shall constitute an amount whereby the obligation under section 2 of the Adjustment Act to repay to the Treasury advances and readvances to the Colorado River Dam Fund

shall be diminished annually; and the rates computed pursuant to section 1 of said Act shall reflect such diminution.

(d) If the requirements of the municipality shall at any time exceed three thousand six hundred and fifty gallons a minute, the Secretary may furnish whatever additional water and whatever additional carrying capacity may be needed. The municipality shall bear the full cost of furnishing such additional water; and before the commencement of any construction to provide additional carrying capacity, the municipality shall enter into a repayment contract for the return to the United States of the full cost of furnishing such additional carrying capacity over a period of not more than forty years from the date when the facilities providing such additional carrying capacity are placed in service. Interest not exceeding the rate of 3 per centum per annum of the unamortized construction costs shall be paid.

(e) At the end of each period of five years after the date of incorporation of the municipality, the Secretary shall investigate the need for continuation of all or part of the assistance to the municipality provided under this section and shall report his findings and recommendations to the Congress as soon thereafter as practicable.

SEC. 10. In all sales, leases, transfers, and grants of Federal real property situated within the Boulder City municipal area the Secretary shall attach conditions involving such use restrictions as he may deem reasonable and necessary to preserve those community standards consistent with the national use and enjoyment of the project. Such restrictions shall include, without being limited to, restrictions against use of the property for the manufacture, sale, or distribution of intoxicating liquors (except light wines and beer or similar malt beverages and only to the extent that such manufacture, sale, or distribution is in accordance with State and local laws), or narcotics, or habitforming drugs, or for gambling, prostitution, or lewd or immoral conduct. The sale or distribution of intoxicating liquors, narcotics, or habit-forming drugs in accordance with State and local laws for medical or pharmaceutical purposes shall be deemed not a violation of such conditions. Upon a determination, as hereinafter provided, that' there has been a breach of any such condition by, or with the express or implied consent of, the grantee, his successors, assigns, or legal representatives, the United States shall have, and the Secretary shall thereupon exercise, the right to reenter the property or any part thereof and declare all right, title, and interest in and to the property or part thereof forfeited to the United States. Determination of a breach as aforesaid shall be by appropriate proceedings which the Attorney General of the United States shall institute, on recommendation of the Secretary, in the United States district court for the district in which the property is located. Nothing contained herein shall prejudice the cancellation of leases for breach of similar conditions or covenants contained therein or the enforcement by other appropriate means of such conditions or covenants.

All conditions attached pursuant to this section shall continue in full force and effect until, by election or referendum held especially for this purpose not less than three years after incorporation of the municipality, a majority of the registered voters of the municipality participating in such election shall have voted to dispense with all the aforesaid conditions simultaneously.

SEC. 11. The Secretary is authorized to enter into contracts with the municipality whereby either party might undertake to render to the other such services in aid of the performance of activities and functions of the municipality and of the Department within or near Boulder City as will in the Secretary's judgment contribute substantially to the efficiency or economy of the operations of the Department.

SEC. 12. Paragraph (3) of subsection 223 (a) of the National Housing Act, as amended, is hereby amended by changing the final semicolon in the paragraph to a comma and adding at the end of the paragraph the following: "of any permanent housing under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior constructed under the Boulder Canyon Project Act of December 21, 1928, as amended and supplemented, located within the Boulder City municipal area: Provided, That for purposes of the application of this title to sales by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to subsections 3 (b) (1) and 3 (b) (2) of the Boulder City Act of 1958, the selling price of the property involved shall be deemed to be the appraised value; or".

SEC. 13. The provisions of this Act for the disposal of federally owned property are to be carried out notwithstanding any other provisions of law: Provided, That nothing in this Act shall be deemed to affect any existing right-of-way heretofore granted under the provisions of the Project Act or otherwise, or any rights reserved to the United States in connection with grants of such rights-of-way.

SEC. 14. This Act shall be a supplement to the Project Act and the Adjustment Act, and said Acts shall govern the administration of this Act, except as is otherwise herein provided.

SEC. 15. The Secretary is hereby authorized, subject only to the provisions of this Act, to perform such acts, to delegate such authority, and to prescribe such rules and regulations and establish such terms and conditions as he may deem necessary and proper for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this Act into full force and effect.

SEC. 16. Except as provided in subsection (f) (2) of section 3, subsection (b) of section 4, and subsection (c) of section 6 of this Act, all authority of the Secretary under this Act shall terminate at the expiration of fiscal year 1963, unless incorporation of the municipality shall previously have been achieved.

SEC. 17. The second and third provisos of the penultimate paragraph under the heading "Office of Education" in the Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriation Act, 1954 (67 Stat. 245, 250), are hereby repealed.

SEC. 18. This Act may be cited as the "Boulder City Act of 1958." Approved September 2, 1958.

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INTERNATIONAL HOUSING AND URBAN
DEVELOPMENT

EXCERPT FROM THE HOUSING ACT OF 1957

[Public Law 85-104, 85th Congress, 71 Stat. 294, 304]

EXCHANGE OF DATA

SEC. 604. The Housing and Home Finance Administrator shall exchange data relating to housing and urban planning and development with other nations where such exchange is deemed by him to be beneficial to the programs of the Housing and Home Finance Agency.

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EXCERPTS FROM THE FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1961,
AS AMENDED

[Public Law 87-195, 75 Stat. 424, 22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.]

SEC. 102. STATEMENT OF POLICY.-It is the sense of the Congress that peace depends on wider recognition of the dignity and interdependence of men, and survival of free institutions in the United States can best be assured in a worldwide atmosphere of freedom.

To this end, the United States has in the past provided assistance to help strengthen the forces of freedom by aiding peoples of less developed friendly countries of the world to develop their resources and improve their living standards, to realize their aspirations for justice, education, dignity, and respect as individual human beings, and to establish responsible governments.

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It is the policy of the United States to strengthen friendly foreign countries by encouraging the development of their free economic institutions and productive capabilities, and by minimizing or eliminating barriers to the flow of private investment capital.

It is the sense of the Congress that the institution of full investment guaranty programs under title III of chapter 2 of this part with all recipient countries would be regarded as a significant measure of selfhelp by such countries improving the climate for private investment both domestic and foreign.

In addition, the Congress declares that it is the policy of the United States to support the principles of increased economic cooperation and trade among countries, freedom of the press, information, and religion, freedom of navigation in international waterways, and recognition of the right of all private persons to travel and pursue their lawful activities without discrimination as to race or religion. The Congress further declares that any distinction made by foreign nations between American citizens because of race, color, or religion in the granting of, or the exercise of, personal or other rights available to American cit

izens is repugnant to our principles. In the administration of all parts of this Act these principles shall be supported in such a way in our relations with countries friendly to the United States which are in controversy with each other as to promote an adjudication of the issues involved by means of international law procedures available to the parties.

Accordingly, the Congress hereby affirms it to be the policy of the United States to make assistance available, upon request, under this part in scope and on a basis of long-range continuity essential to the creation of an environment in which the energies of the peoples of the world can be devoted to constructive purposes, free of pressure and erosion by the adversaries of freedom. It is the sense of the Congress that in furnishing assistance under this part excess personal property shall be utilized wherever practicable in lieu of the procurement of new items for United States-assisted projects and programs. It is the further sense of the Congress that assistance under this part shall be complemented by the furnishing under any other Act of surplus agricultural commodities and by disposal of excess property under this and other Acts.

Also, the Congress reaffirms its conviction that the peace of the world and the security of the United States are endangered so long as international communism continues to attempt to bring under Communist domination peoples now free and independent and to keep under domination peoples once free but now subject to such domination. It is, therefore, the policy of the United States to continue to make available to other free countries and peoples, upon request, assistance of such nature and in such amounts as the United States deems advisable and as may be effectively used by free countries and peoples to help them maintain their freedom. Assistance shall be based upon sound plans and programs; be directed toward the social as well as economic aspects of economic development; be responsive to the efforts of the recipient countries to mobilize their own resources and help themselves; be cognizant of the external and internal pressures which hamper their growth; and shall emphasize long-range development assistance as the primary instrument of such growth.

It is the sense of Congress that in the administration of these funds great attention and consideration should be given to those countries which share the view of the United States on the world crisis and which do not, as a result of United States assistance, divert their own economic resources to military propaganda efforts, supported by the Soviet Union or Communist China, and directed against the United States or against other countries receiving aid under this Act.

The Congress further declares that in the administration of programs of assistance under this Act the highest practicable emphasis should be given to: programs providing for loans or loan guarantees for use by institutions and organizations in making repayable lowinterest rate loans to individuals in friendly foreign countries for the purchase of small farms, the purchase of homes, the establishment, equipment and strengthening of small independent business concerns, purchase of tools or equipment needed by individuals for carrying on an occupation or a trade or financing the opportunity for individuals to obtain practical education in vocational and occupational skills, and to those programs of technical assistance and development which will

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