AZ vs. CA:10 California Exhibits, Vol. X; Nos. 458-528

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4 TRANSFERRING DUTIES RELATING TO SAN DIEGO AQUEDUCT principal and interest to be made by the San Diego Water Authority will be prepared. Thereafter, the administration of the contract, barring defaults or any other unanticipated eventualities, will consist principally of the receipt of payments from the authority and the transmittal thereof to the Treasury for covering into miscellaneous receipts. Upon completion of the payments, the necessary documents of title will have to be executed on behalf of the Government and delivered to the San Diego Water Authority. At this time the Department of the Navy is desirous of effecting the transfer of the administration of the contract, as well as of the aqueduct, to the Department of Interior. While the act of October 11, 1951, supra, authorized the Secretary of the Navy to construct the second barrel, the act made no provision for the transfer of administration upon the completion of the aqueduct. Accordingly, enabling legislation is considered necessa^ to effect such a transfer. LEGISLATIVE REFERENCES This proposal was submitted to the 84th Congress on June 11, 1956, as part of the Department of Defense legislative program for 1956. It was introduced as H. R. 11814. COST AND BUDGET DATA The enactment of this proposed legislation would cause no apparent increase in budgetary requirements. Sincerely yours, Thomas S. Gates, Jr., Acting Secretary of the Navy. CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW In compliance with subsection 4 of rule XXIX of the Standing Rules of the Senate, changes in existing law made by the bill are shown as follows: New matter is printed in italics, existing law in which no change is proposed is shown in roman. Act of October 11, 1951 (Public Law 171, 82d Cong.; 65 Stat. 404-406) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, subject to the provisions of section 3 of this Act, the Secretary of the Navy, under the direction of the Secretary of Defense, is authorized and directed to provide for- (1) such enlargement of the existing aqueduct extending from the west end of the San Jacinto tunnel of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to the San Vicente Reservoir in San Diego County, California, as may be necessary to increase the rated capacity of such existing aqueduct from eighty-five cubic feet per second to not less than one hundred and sixty-five cubic feet per second, or (2) the construction of a new aqueduct paralleling such existing aqueduct and having a rated capacity of not less than eighty cubic feet per second.