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Show -20- CALIFORNIA DEFENDANTS Exhibit No. 1701-J Identification: ............................ Admitted: Aug. 6, 1957 Public Law 394-84th Congress Chapter 13-2d Session S. 1689 An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to execute a repayment contract with the Yuma Mesa Irrigation and Drainage District, Gila project, Arizona, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to execute a contract with the Yuma Mesa Irrigation and Drainage District, Gila project, Arizona, on such terms and conditions as the Secretary deems appropriate, which shall provide, among other things, for repayment by the District to the United States over a period of not exceeding sixty years from the end of the development period for each irrigation block established by the Secretary for lands situate within said district of (1) an average of $200 per acre for lands in said district for which irrigation facilites have been constructed, to be allocated as determined to be appropriate by the Secretary among the twelve thousand twenty-three and six-tenths acres of class 2 lands and the seven thousand nine hundred forty-six and four-tenths acres of class 3 lands in the district, as classified in the Bureau of Reclamation report titled "Land Classification Report, Unit One, Yuma Mesa Division, Gila Project, Arizona, May 1949", as amended, made pursuant to subsection (d) of section 4 of the Act of December 5, 1924 (43 Stat. 702, 43 U. S. C. 462); (2) the unpaid operation and maintenance charges which |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : California exhibits. |