Chapter 119. To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to extend the time for payment of charges due on reclamation projects, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 119.— An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to extend the time for payment of charges due on reclamation projects, and for other purposes. March 31, 1922.[[H. R. 9606](/us/bill/67/hr/9606).][[Public, No. 185](/us/pl/67/185).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Reclamation Act.Extension of time for paying construction charges due in 1922. That where an individual water user or individual applicant for a water right under a Federal irrigation project constructed or being constructed under the Act of June 17, 1902 (Thirty-second Statutes, page 388), or any Act amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, is unable to pay any construction charge due and payable in the year 1922 or prior thereto, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to extend the date of payment of any such charge for a period not*Post*, p. 1324. to exceed one year from December 31, 1922: *Provided*, That the*Proviso*.Proof of inability of claimant, etc. applicant for the extension shall first show to the satisfaction of the490 Secretary of the Interior by a detailed verified statement of his assets and liabilities, an actual inability to make payment at the time the application is made and an apparent ability to meet the deferred charge when the extension expires; also in cases where water for irrigation is available, that the applicant is a landowner or entryman whose land against which the charge has accrued is beingExtended to groups of water users. actually cultivated: *Provided further,*, That similar relief in whole or in part may be extended by the Secretary of the Interior to a legally organized group of water users of a project, upon presentation of a sufficient number of individual showings made in accordance with the foregoing proviso to satisfy the Secretary of the Interior that suchInterest and penalty. extension is necessary: *And provided further*, That each charge so extended shall draw interest at the rate of 6 per centum per annum from its due date in lieu of any penalty that may now be provided by law, but in case such charge is not paid at the end of such extension period, any penalty that would have been applicable save for such extension, shall attach from the date the charge was originally due the same as if no extension had been granted.
Sec. 2. Water may be furnished to landowners one year in arrears.*Post*, p. 1325. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized in his discretion, after due investigation, to furnish irrigation water on Federal irrigation projects during the irrigation season of 1922 to landowners or entrymen who are in arrears for more than one calendar year in the payment of any operation and maintenance or constructionVol. 33, p. 688.*Proviso*.Payments, etc., to be made. charges, notwithstanding the provisions of section 6 of the Act of August 13, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes, page 686): *Provided*, That nothing in this section shall be construed to relieve any beneficiary hereunder from payments due or penalties thereon requiredActual cultivation required. by said Act: *Provided further*, That the relief provided by this section shall be extended only to a landowner or entryman whose land against which the charges have accrued is actually being cultivated.
Approved, March 31, 1922.