§ 695m. — Annual percentage payments of net revenues from leases of Klamath project lands on pro rata basis; limitation on payments; priority of use of net revenues.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC695m]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 6--GAME AND BIRD PRESERVES; PROTECTION
Sec. 695m. Annual percentage payments of net revenues from
leases of Klamath project lands on pro rata basis; limitation on
payments; priority of use of net revenues
Subject to conditions hereafter prescribed, and pursuant to such
regulations as may be issued by the Secretary, 25 per centum of the net
revenues collected during each fiscal year from the leasing of Klamath
project reserved Federal lands within the Executive order boundaries of
the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge and the Tule Lake National
Wildlife Refuge shall be paid annually by the Secretary, without further
authorization, for each full fiscal year after September 2, 1964 to the
counties in which such refuges are located, such payments to be made on
a pro rata basis to each county based upon the refuge acreage in each
county: Provided, That the total annual payment per acre to each county
shall not exceed 50 per centum of the average per acre tax levied on
similar lands in private ownership in each county, as determined by the
Secretary: Provided further, That no such payments shall be made which
will reduce the credits or the payments to be made pursuant to
contractual obligations of the United States with the Tulelake
Irrigation District or the payments to the Klamath Drainage District as
full reimbursement for the construction of irrigation facilities within
said district, and that the priority of use of the total net revenues
collected from the leasing of the lands described in this section shall
be (1) to credit or pay from each revenues to the Tulelake Irrigation
District the amounts already committed to such payment or credit; (2) to
pay from such revenues to the Klamath Drainage District the sum of
$197,315; and (3) to pay from such revenues to the counties the amounts
prescribed by this section.
(Pub. L. 88-567, Sec. 3, Sept. 2, 1964, 78 Stat. 850.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 695r of this title.
