Chapter 155. providing for the withdrawal from public entry of lands needed for town-site purposes in connection with irrigation projects under the reclamation Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, and for other purposes,” approved April sixteenth, nineteen hundred and six
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CHAP. 155.— AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act providing for the withdrawal from public entry of lands needed for town-site purposes in connection with irrigation projects under the reclamation Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, and for other purposes,” approved April sixteenth, nineteen hundred and six. February 24, 1911.[[S. 10574](/us/bill/36/s/10574).][[Public, No. 417](/us/bill/36/pl/417).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Américain Congress assembled*, That section five Reclamation act.
Vol. 32. p. 388.of an Act entitled “An Act Vol. 32, p. 388.providing for the withdrawal from public entry of lands needed for town-site purposes in connection with irrigation projects under the reclamation Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, and for other purposes,” approved April sixteenth, nineteen hundred and six, be amended so as to read as follows: “Sec.5.That whenever a development of power is necessaryLeases of surplus water power.for the irrigation of lands, under any project undertaken under the said reclamation ActVol. 34. p. 117, amended., or an opportunity is afforded for the development of power under any such project, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to lease for a period not exceeding ten years, giving preference Terms, etc.to municipal purposes, any surplus power or power privilege, and the money derived from such leases shall be covered into the reclamation fund and be placed to the credit of the project from which such power 931is derived: *Provided,* *Provisos.*That no lease shall be made of such surplus power or power privileges as will impair the efficiency of the Impairing irrigation projects prohibited.irrigation project: *Provided further,* That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to make such a lease in connection with Rio Grande project Longer term on Rio Grande project.in Texas and New Mexico for a longer period not exceeding fifty years, with the approval of the water users’ associa tion or associations under any such project, organized in conformity with the rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior in pursuance of section six of the reclamation Act Vol. 32, p. 389.approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two.
” Approved, February 24, 1911.