Chapter 522. To Authorize the Broadwater Irrigation District, a Montana organization, to construct a dam across the Missouri River
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CHAP. 522.— An Act To Authorize the Broadwater Irrigation District, a Montana organization, to construct a dam across the Missouri River. March 4, 1925.[[S. 2085](/us/bill/68/s/2085).][[Public, No. 597](/us/pl/68/597).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the consentMissouri River.Broadwater Irrigation District, may dam, in Montana.Location. of Congress is hereby granted to the Broadwater Irrigation District, a Montana organization, its successors or assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a dam across the Missouri River, at a point, suitable to the interests of navigation, in section 6, township 4 north, range 3 east, Montana meridian, or in section 1, township 4 north, range 2 east, Montana meridian: *Provided*, That the work shall not*Provisos*.Approval of plans. be commenced until the plans therefor have been submitted to and approved by the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, and by the Secretary of War: *Provided further*, That this Act shall not beUse restricted. construed to authorize the use of such dam to develop water power or generate hydro-electric energy.
Sec. 2. That the authority granted by this Act shall cease and beTime of construction. null and void unless the actual construction of the dam hereby authorized is commenced within one year and completed within three years from the date of approval of this Act: *Provided*, That from*Proviso*.Terminated if water-power development interfered with. and after thirty days’ notice from the Federal Power Commission, or other authorized agency of the United States to said district or its successors, that desirable water-power development will be interfered with by the existence of said dam, the authority hereby granted to construct, maintain, and operate said dam shall terminate and be at an end; and any grantee or licensee of the United States proposing to develop a power project at or near said dam shall have authorityAuthority of grantee of power project. to remove, submerge,Conditions. or utilize said dam under such conditions as said commission or other agency may determine, but such conditions shall not include compensation for the removal, submergence, or utilization of said dam.
Sec. 3. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, March 4, 1925.