PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 94-APR. 24, 1945 amounts of the installment or installments for said year under the organization's obligation or obligations as determined under sub- tConormity of con- sections (b) and (e) of this section. The Secretary is hereby author- ized to amend any repayment contracts heretofore or hereafter entered into pursuant to the provisions of this section to conform to the provisions of this amendment." 53 Stat. 119i . SEC. 2. Section 7 (c) of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 is hereby amended to read as follows: Execution of con- tract only after ap "() The Secretary from time to time shall report to the Congress proval ofcongress. on any proposed contracts negotiated pursuant to the authority of subsection (a) or (b) (1) of this section, and he may execute any such contract on behalf of the United States only after approval mut renments by thereof has been given by Act of Congress. Contracts, so approved, however, may be amended from time to time by mutual agreement and without further approval by Congress if such amendments are within the scope of authority heretofore or hereafter granted to the Exception. Secretary under any Act, except that amendments providing for repayment of construction charges in a period of years longer than authorized by this Act, as it may be amended, shall be effective only when approved by Congress." 53 stat. 1198 . Proecoheeb 43 U.sS. 8 i 485b SEC. 3. Section 17 of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 is hereby note. amended to read as follows: Duration of author- "(a) The authority granted in sections 3 and 4 of this Act for 3stat. 1188, 1189. modification of existing repayment contracts or other forms of obli- 483 U. C. c 485b, gations to pay construction charges shall continue through December Ante, p.76. 31, 1950, or December 31 of the fifth full calendar year after the cessation of hostilities in the present war, as determined by procla- mation of the President or concurrent resolution of the Congress, whichever period is the longer. Deferred install. "(b) The Secretary is hereby authorized, subject to the provisions nts. of this subsection, to defer the time for the payment of such part of any installments of construction charges under any repayment con- tract or other form of obligation (exclusive of contracts entered into under this Act) that are due and unpaid as of the date of this amend- ment or which will become due prior to the expiration of the authority under subsection (a) of this section as he deems necessary to adjust such installments to amounts within the probable ability of the water users to Day. Any such deferment shall be effected only after find- ings by the Secretary that the installments under consideration prob- ably cannot be paid on their due dates without undue burden on the water users, considering the various factors which in the Secretary's judgment bear on the ability of the water users so to pay. Conditions, etc. "The Secretary may effect the deferments hereunder subject to such conditions and provisions relating to the operation and maintenance of the project involved as he deems to be in the interest of the United States. If, however, any deferments would affect installments to accrue more than twelve months after the action of deferment, they shall be effected only by a formal supplemental contract. Such a contract shall provide by its terms that, it being only an interim solution of the repayment problems dealt with therein, its terms are not, in themselves, to be construed as a criterion of the terms of any 53 stat. 1188,1189, amendatory contract that may be negotiated pursuant to sections 3, 1192. 43U. C. . 48sb, 4, or 7 of this Act." Ante,.p . 75; anpm. Approved April 24, 1945. [59 STAT.
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