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-21- CALIFORNIA DEFENDANTS Exhibit No. 1701-J Identification: ............................ Admitted: Aug. 6, 1957 accrued prior to June 30, 1954, totaling $297,167.45, as allocated by the Secretary to said lands situate within the district; and (3) the costs of the works authorized in section 2 hereof, not exceeding $1,350,000, and further providing for the release, on such terms and conditions as the Secretary finds appropriate, of the existing pre-development contracts and mortgages held by the United States on the lands situate within the district which were predeveloped by the United States, and for the repayment to the United States by the lands benefited by said pre-development of the amounts provided for in said mortgages in the same period within which the costs for the construction of the irrigation facilities are to be repaid. Sec. 2. The Secretary is authorized on such terms and conditions as he deems appropriate to make drainage surveys and investigations of the lands within the district, to construct drainage facilities and works therefor, to install additional pump capacity in the Yuma Mesa Pump Plant of not to exceed two hundred and seventy-five cubic feet per second, to construct such buildings determined by him to be appropriate in connection with the operation and maintenance of the lands situate within the district, and to provide in the contract referred to in section 1 hereof for the performance of such work. Sec. 3. Expenditures by the United States in excess of the amounts to be repaid by the district as provided in section 1 hereof, which have been allocated by the Secretary (a) to acreage eliminated from the Gila project pursuant to the Act of July 30, 1947 (61 Stat. 628), (b) to