That this section shall not apply to any project, unit oir division of a
project, or repayment contracting entity if the average frost-free
growing season, as determined from published Department of Com-
merce records, exceeds one hundred and eighty days.
 (b) On projects where the application of equivalency has been pre-
viously authorized by an act of Congress, that authorization shall
remain in effect; however, upon the request of a district holding an
existing contract with the Secretary on any such project, the Secretary
may reassess existing equivalency determinations and amend existing
contracts to reflect changes in reclamation law effected by this Act.
 (c) The Secretary may determine, in his discretion with respect to
any district requesting the application of equivalency after examina-
tion of all relevant factors pertaining to equivalency, and despite the
fact that the requesting district may lie wholly or partly within the
180-day limitation applied by this Act, that the application of an
equivalency formula to such district is inappropriate.
 (d) By March 31 of the year following calendar year of the date of
enactment of this Act, and on each March 31 thereafter, the Secretary
shall report to the Congress on actions taken to carry out the purposes
of this section. The report shall present on a case-by-case basis, the
name of the project division, unit, and repayment entities involved and
summary information on equivalency determinations and other actions
taken by the Secretary under this section during the calendar year pre-
ceding the date of the report."
 Change Sec. 6 to Sec. 8 and revise to read:
 CONTRACT APPROVALS
 "Sec. 8 (a). The reclamation contracts with water user organizations
 negotiated pursuant to the Federal reclamation laws by the Secretary
 of the Interior, and listed hereinafter, are hereby approved by the
 Congress of the United States. (Contracts are listed in Appendix A to
 this bill, incorporated as part of the bill.)
 (b) Provisions in the aforementioned contracts allowing for exemp-
 tion from the acreage limitation provisions of reclamation law upon
 full payment of the districts' allocated shares of construction costs
 shall not be construed as authorizing or allowing lump sum or other
 accelerated payment in order to achieve such an exemption. Only pay-
 ment over the normal term in regularly scheduled installments shall be
 sufficient.
 (c) Upon full payment of a district's allocated share of construc-
 tion charges in regularly scheduled installments over a normal, full
 term, for any district in any project heretofore or hereafter authorized,
 and of any other charges and loans incurred under authority of any
 other Federal Reclamation Law, the Secretary, upon application by a
 district or other contracting entity, may in his discretion grant an
 exemption from the acreage limitations and residency requirement
 imposed by the Federal Reclamation Laws only if he is satisfied that a
 general pattern of family-sized farm ownerships owned and operated
 in accordance with Reclamation law has been established within the
 boundaries of the district or other contracting entity seeking the
 exemption. The repayment of loans under the Rehabilitation and
 Betterment Act, 43 U.S.C.  504, et seq., shall be required prior to Sec-