Chapter 205. To amend section 43 of the Act of May 25, 1926, entitled “An Act to adjust water-right charges, to grant certain other relief on the Federal irrigation projects, and for other purposes.” April 23, 1930.[[H
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CHAP. 205.— An Act To amend section 43 of the Act of May 25, 1926, entitled “An Act to adjust water-right charges, to grant certain other relief on the Federal irrigation projects, and for other purposes.” April 23, 1930.[[H. R. 4291](/us/bill/71/hr/4291).][[Public, No. 161](/us/pl/71/161).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Irrigation projects.Vol., 44 p. 647, amended. That section 43 of the Act of May 25, 1926, entitled “An Act to adjust water-right charges, to grant certain other relief on the Federal irrigation projects, *Post*, p. 367.and for other purposes” (Forty-fourth Statutes, page 636), be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:
" “Sec. 43. The payment of all construction charges against said Suspension of charges on temporarily unproductive areas.areas temporarily unproductive shall remain suspended until the Secretary of the Interior shall declare them to be possessed of sufficient productive power properly to be placed in a paying class, whereupon payment of construction charges against such areas shall be resumed or shall begin, as the case may be. Any payments madePayments made to be credited to productive area of unit. on such areas shall be credited to the unpaid balance of the construction charge on the productive area of each unit.
Such credit shall be applied on and after the passage and approval of this Act, which shall not be construed to require revision of accounts heretofore adjusted under the provisions of this section as originally Water for irrigation may be furnished. enacted. While said lands so classified as temporarily unproductive and the construction charges against them are suspended, water for irrigation purposes may be furnished upon payment of the usual operation and maintenance charges, or such other charges as may be 250fixed by the Secretary of the Interior the advance payment of which Lands permanently unproductive, to be charged off as loss to fund.may be required, in the discretion of the said Secretary.
Should said lands temporarily classed as unproductive, or any of them, in the future be found by the Secretary of the Interior to be permanently unproductive, the charges against them shall be charged off as a permanent loss to the reclamation fund and they shall thereupon be treated in the same manner as other permanently unproductive No refund of charges paid.lands as provided in this Act except that no refund shall be made of the construction charges paid on such unproductive areas and applied as a credit on productive areas as herein authorized.
” " Approved, April 23, 1930.