Pub. L. 94-228, tit. I, sec. 101

Sec. 101. The Polecat Bench area of the Shoshone extensions unit, heretofore authorized as an integral part of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin program by the Act of December 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 887, 891), is hereby reauthorized as a part of that project. The construction, operation, and maintenance of the Polecat Bench area for the purposes of providing irrigation water for approximately nineteen thousand two hundred acres of land, municipal and industrial water supply, fish and wildlife conservation and development, public outdoor recreation, and other purposes shall be prosecuted by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902; 32 Stat. 388, aim Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto). The principal features of the Polecat Bench area shall include the Holden Reservoir, related canals, pumping plants, laterals, drains, and necessary facilities to effect the aforesaid purposes of the area. For a period of not more than two years after the initial availability of irrigation water up to two thousand two hundred and seventeen acres of public lands in the Polecat Bench area determined to be suitable for settlement purposes shall be made available, on a preference basis for exchange or amendment, to resident landowners on the Heart. Mountain Division of the Shoshone project, who, on or before December 1, 1968, were determined by the Secretary to be eligible for such exchange or amendment of their farm units under provisions of the Act of August 13, 1953 (67 Stat. 566).