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PUBLIC LAW 86-515-JUNE 12, 1960
STAT.]
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charges for the use of the Potomac interceptor, which shall be based upon the costs of operation, maintenance, and amortization of the cost of all planning and construction (including acquisition of rights-ofway) of such interceptor, but which shall exclude such amount as may be appropriated pursuant to section 3 of this Act. The Commissioners shall credit all receipts from such charges for the use of the Potomac interceptor to a special fund which is hereby established and which shall be known as the Metropolitan Area Sanitary Sewage Works ^,"^3 g^^i^a^y y^^" Fund of the District of Columbia. Such special fund shall be avail- ««« works Fund. able in such amounts as may be appropriated from time to time for expenses necessary to plan, construct, maintain, and operate the Potomac interceptor. (c) The Commissioners shall also charge all users of the Potomac interceptor, including any agency of the United States for carrying, treating, and disposing of sewage in the sewerage system of and within the District of Columbia consistently with the provisions of section 1 of the Act of August 21, 1958 (72 Stat. 702; D.C. Code, sec. l-8l7c) and section 9 of the Act of September 1, 1916 (39 Stat. 717; D.C. Code, sec. 1-817), and the receipts derived from said charges shall be deposited to the credit of the D.C. Sanitary Sewage Works Fund (created by section 202 of the District of Columbia Public ^. c. code 43Works Act of 1954; 68 Stat. 104). ^^°^SEC. 3. For the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this Act, Appropriation. there is authorized to be appropriated, without fiscal year limitation, to the Metropolitan Area Sanitary Sewage Works Fund the sum of $3,000,000, as the Federal contribution towa^rd the cost of planning, acquiring rights-of-way for, and constructing the Potomac interceptor. SEC. 4. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed umftlao"".^^^"^ to advance to the Commissioners, from time to time, and the Commissioners are authorized to accept as loans, such additional funds, not exceeding a total of $25,000,000, as may be appropriated to carry out the purposes of this Act. Any loan advanced under this section shall be credited to the Metropolitan Area Sanitary Sewage Works Fund, and shall be repaid to the Secretary of the Treasury, from the receipts credited to said fund, in substantially equal annual payments including principal and interest, within a period of forty years beginning on July 1 of the second fiscal j^ear following the date on which each such advance is credited to this fund: Provided, That interest and principal payments shall be deferred whenevei- the Secretary of the Treasury finds that the income received from charges for sewerage services is inadequate to cover these and other expenses properly chargeable to these receipts, and such deferred interest and principal shall be added to the sums payable to the Secretary of the Treasury in later years. The interest rates on such loans shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of section 218 of the District of Columbia Public Works Act of 1954, as amended (68 Stat. 109). X6i'7^°^' SEC. 5. (a) The Commissioners are authorized to acquire by pur- , •^^'ivisition of ,
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chase, condemnation, donation, or otherwise, any land or any interest and Virginia, in land located in Maryland or Virginia needed for construction and operation of the Potomac interceptor. Title to any such land or interest in land shall be taken in the name of the United States but shall be under the jurisdiction and control of the Commissioners. For the purpose of acquiring any such land or any interest in land, the Commissioners shall be deemed to be officers of the Government within the meaning and for the purposes of the Act approved August 1, 1888 (25 Stat. 357), as amended (40 U.S.C. sec. 257). The provisions of
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