Chapter 145. To extend the time for payment of charges due on reclamation projects, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 145.— An Act To extend the time for payment of charges due on reclamation projects, and for other purposes. February 28, 1923.[[S. 4187](/us/pl/67/4187).][[Public, No. 454](/us/pl/67/454).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Reclamation Act.Time further extended for paying charges due in 1922.*Ante*, p. 489, amended. That section 1 of the Act entitled “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,” approved March 31, 1922, is amended by striking out the words “one year” where they appear in such section and inserting in lieu thereof the words “ two years.
” Sec. 2. Additional year allowed. That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in the manner and subject to the conditions imposed by such Act of March 31, 1922, to extend for a period not exceeding two years from December 31, 1922, the date of any payment of any charge the date of 1325payment of which has been extended under the provisions of section 1 of such Act. Sec. 3. That every charge, the date of payment of which is extended Interest and penalty on deferred payments.under the provisions of section 2 or this Act, shall draw interest at the rate of 6 per centum per annum from the date from which it was so extended in lieu of any penalty that may now be provided by law, but in case such charge is not paid at the end of the period for which it is so extended any such penalty shall attach from the date the charge was originally due, as if no extension had been granted.
Sec. 4. That section 2 of such Act of March 31, 1922, is amended Arrears.*Ante*, p. 490, amended.by striking out the words “ season of 1922 ” where they appear in such section and by inserting in lieu thereof the words “ seasons of 1922 and 1923.” Sec. 5. That where an individual water user, or individual applicant Unpaid charges may be added to construction charge.Vol. 32, p. 388.for a water right under a Federal irrigation project constructed or being constructed under the Act of June 17, 1902 (Thirty-second Statutes at Large, page 388), or any Act amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, is unable to pay any construction or operation and maintenance charge due, excepting operation and maintenance charges for drainage on the Boise, Idaho, project for the year 1922, or prior thereto, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized in his discretion to add such accrued and unpaid charges to the construction charge of the land of such water user or applicant, and to distribute such accumulated charges equally over each of the Payments in the 20 year period.subsequent years, beginning with the year 1924, at such rate per year as will complete the payment during the remaining years of the twenty-year period of payment of the original construction charge: *Provided*, That upon such adjustment being made, any penalties or *Provisos*.Accrued interest, etc., to be canceled.interest which may have accrued in connection with such unpaid construction and operation and maintenance charges shall be canceled, and in lieu thereof the amount so due, and the payment of which is hereby extended, shall draw interest at the rate or 6 per centum per annum, paid annually from the time said amount became due to date of payment: *Provided further*, That the applicant Inability to make payments, etc., must be shown.for the extension shall first show to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior detailed statement of his assets and liabilities and actual inability to make payment at the time of the application and an apparent ability to meet the deferred charges in 1924 and subsequent years: *And provided further*, That in case the principal and Penalty if principal and interest not paid hereafter.interest herein provided for arc not paid in the manner and at the time provided by this Act, any penalty now provided by law shall attach from the date the charge was originaly due: *And provided further*, That similar relief in whole or in part may be extended Extended to groups of water users.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 such extension is necessary.
Approved, February 28, 1923.