The Columbia Basin Project Act: Hearings, Seventy-seventh Congress, Second Session on H.R. 6522, Volume 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942 - Irrigation |
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... REPRESENTATIVES SEVENTY - SEVENTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H. R. 6522 A BILL TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED " AN ACT TO PREVENT SPECULATION IN LANDS IN THE COLUMBIA BASIN PROS- PECTIVELY IRRIGABLE BY REASON OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE GRAND ...
... REPRESENTATIVES SEVENTY - SEVENTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H. R. 6522 A BILL TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED " AN ACT TO PREVENT SPECULATION IN LANDS IN THE COLUMBIA BASIN PROS- PECTIVELY IRRIGABLE BY REASON OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE GRAND ...
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... REPRESENTATIVES , COMMITTEE ON IRRIGATION AND RECLAMATION , Washington , D. C. The committee this day met at 10:30 a . m . , Hon . Compton I. White ( chairman ) presiding , for consideration of H. R. 6522 , which reads as follows ...
... REPRESENTATIVES , COMMITTEE ON IRRIGATION AND RECLAMATION , Washington , D. C. The committee this day met at 10:30 a . m . , Hon . Compton I. White ( chairman ) presiding , for consideration of H. R. 6522 , which reads as follows ...
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... representatives as may be designated for the purpose by the irrigation districts under contract with the United States pursuant to section 2 ( b ) of this Act , a program of project land acquisition , development , and settlement . This ...
... representatives as may be designated for the purpose by the irrigation districts under contract with the United States pursuant to section 2 ( b ) of this Act , a program of project land acquisition , development , and settlement . This ...
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... representative or representatives . Authority like that granted to the Secretary by this section is hereby granted to the head of any department or agency which is to perform any part of the project land acquisition , development , and ...
... representative or representatives . Authority like that granted to the Secretary by this section is hereby granted to the head of any department or agency which is to perform any part of the project land acquisition , development , and ...
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... representatives of the Department . We can read the report of the Secretary of the Interior . The CHAIRMAN . Then I will insert the letter of the Secretary of the Interior after reading only a little of it . ( The matter referred to is ...
... representatives of the Department . We can read the report of the Secretary of the Interior . The CHAIRMAN . Then I will insert the letter of the Secretary of the Interior after reading only a little of it . ( The matter referred to is ...
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acres agencies amendment ANDERSON antispeculation features appraised value appropriate authority believe BILLINGSLEY Boise project Bonneville Power Administration Bureau of Reclamation CHAIRMAN Columbia Basin project Columbia River Congress connection consideration construction charges cost Coulee Dam project crops Department of Agriculture dry-farming DWORSHAK Ephrata excess land Farm Credit Administration Farm Security Administration farm unit farmers Federal Government Grand Coulee Dam included Interior irrigable lands IRRIGATION AND RECLAMATION irrigation block irrigation farming irrigation project landowner legislation loans MCINTYRE ment MURDOCK operation owner payment pending bill percent period plat problems Project Act project area project lands proposed public lands purchase purposes pursuant receive water reclamation laws reclamation projects recordable contract repayment contract ROBERTSON ROBINSON Secretary sell settle settlement settlers SMART soil Stat STINSON subsection successful thereof tion tract University of Washington WARNE Wash Washington WIECKING WINTER
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Page 225 - If any provision of this Act, or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances, shall be held invalid, the remainder of this Act, or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby.
Page 227 - There is hereby authorized to be appropriated from time to time, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums of money as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
Page 7 - States of a contract of sale of any lands within the project, the lands under contract may be taxed by the State or political subdivision thereof in the same manner and to the same extent as privately owned lands of a like character. All taxes legally so assessed may be enforced...
Page 230 - (b) Contracts, exchanges, and leases made under this section, shall be on terms that, in the Secretary's judgment, are in keeping with sound project development. In addition, land sale 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.
Page 97 - HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON IRRIGATION AND RECLAMATION, Washington, DC The committee met at 10 : 30 am, Hon. Compton I. White (chairman) presiding. The CHAIRMAN. The meeting...
Page 65 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of tlie United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Selective Service Act of 1948 (6!?
Page 230 - State or local laws of the inhabitants on such property ; (3) enter into agreements to pay annual sums in lieu of taxes to any State or...
Page 68 - Provided, That no distribution of construction charges over the lands included in the organization shall in any manner be deemed to relieve the organization or any party or any land therein of the organization's general obligation to the United States.
Page 5 - ... conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $500, or by imprisonment not exceeding six months, or by both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.
Page 72 - ... supply and allocated to irrigation; and shall require payment of said rates each year in advance of delivery of water for said year. In the event such contracts are made for furnishing water for irrigation purposes, the costs of any irrigation water distribution works constructed by the United States in connection with the new project, new division of a project, or supplemental works on a project, shall be covered by a repayment contract entered into pursuant to said subsection (d) The provisions...