§ 597a. — Easements for Bull Lake Dam and Reservoir.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC597a]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
SUBCHAPTER XVII--LEGISLATION APPLICABLE TO PARTICULAR PROJECTS GENERALLY
Sec. 597a. Easements for Bull Lake Dam and Reservoir
There is granted to the United States and its assigns, including its
successors in control of the operation and maintenance of the Riverton
reclamation project, Wyoming, a flowage easement and an easement for a
dam site, together with all rights and privileges incident to the use
and enjoyment of said easements, over tribal and allotted lands of the
Wind River or Shoshone Indian Reservation within that part of said
reservation required for the construction of the Bull Lake Dam and
Reservoir on Bull Lake Creek, a tributary of the Wind River, in
connection with the Riverton reclamation project, Wyoming, and for the
impounding of approximately one hundred and fifty-five thousand acre-
feet of water, including a ten-foot freeboard: Provided, That in
consideration of the said rights insofar as they affect tribal lands
there shall be deposited into the Treasury of the United States pursuant
to the provisions of section 155 of title 25, for credit to the Shoshone
and Arapaho Indians of the Wind River Reservation the sum of $6,500,
from moneys appropriated for the construction of the said Bull Lake Dam
and Reservoir, and the said sum when so credited shall draw interest at
the rate of 4 per centum per annum.
(Mar. 14, 1940, ch. 51, Sec. 1, 54 Stat. 49.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 597b, 597c, 597d of this
title.
