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S EVEN TIET H CONGRESS . SESS . I. Ca. 137. 1928 .

211 vided further, That no such obligation shall be incurred or contract Contract required 7

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for repaying co st by entered into until a contract satisfactory to the Secretary of the water use rs associa- Interior shall have been executed by the Florence-Casa Grande tions . Water Users' Association providing for repayment of the cost of construction of said power plant as a part of the cost of said project and for furnishing power for agency and school purposes and for pumping for irrigation by Indians on the San Carlos Reservation at a cost not exceeding 2 mills per kilowatt-hour delivered at Transmission line the switchboard at the Coolidge Dam : Provided further, That the from dam to Ri ce use of not more than $20,000 of the sum made available for the Agency, etc ° replacement at Rice Station, Arizona, of agency buildings to be abandoned at San Carlos and for enlargement of the Rice Station Ante, p.19. boarding school by the Act approved December 22, 1927, is author- ized for construction of a transmission line from the Coolidge Dam to Rice for said school and agency : Provided further, That the use a Paaygsen t of tri bal of not to exceed $80,000 of funds made available in the Act approved December 22, 1927, for the payment of tribal damages is authorized for construction of a transmission line including substation from the Coolidge Dam to lands available for irrigation by pumping on the San Carlos Reservation : Provided further, That the Secretary of sale of surplus power . the Interior is authorized to sell surplus power developed at the Coolidge Dam in such manner and upon such terms and for such prices as he shall think best, and the net revenues from such and all use of revenues. sales of power at that plant shall be devoted, first, to reimbursing the United States for the cost of developing such electrical power as that cost shall be determined by the Secretary of the Interior ; second, to r eimbursing th e United Stat es for the cos t of the San Carlos irrigation project ; third, to payment of operation and main- tenance charges, and the making of repairs and improvements on said project : Provided further, That reimbursements to the United Payments from land . States from power revenues shall not reduce the annual payments owners continued. from landowners on account of the principal sum constituting the cost of construction of the power plant or the project works until Report to Con g r ess such sum shall have been paid in full : Provided further, That the of compensation to be Federal Power Commission is hereby directed, within sixty days paid to Apaches . after the approval of this Act, to report to Congress what compensa- tion, if any, in addition to that already provided for, should be paid to the Apache Indians of the San Carlos Reservation by reason of the generation of hydroelectric power at the Coolidge Dam, in the man- ner provided in section 10 (e) of the Federal Water Power Act and section 5 of Regulation 14 of the Federal Power Commission : Merger of projects Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized in authorized . his discretion to effect a merger of the Florence-Casa Grande project in whole or in part with the San Carlos project and to require pay- ments for both projects under the terms of the San Carlos Act : Pro- Rei mb urs em ent of vided further, That the cost of construction for the Gila River Indian construction costs, etc . Reservation as to works n ot included i n said project and the cost of construction and operation of that part of the Florence-Casa Grande project not included in said project shall be reimbursed vol. 37, p. 522; Vol. as provided for by the Acts of August 24, 1912 (T hirt y-se vent h 39, P .,130 . Statutes, page 522), and May 18, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes, page 130), respectively : Provided further, That the Secretary of the Acceptance of lands, Interior is authorized to accept the conveyance to the United States gam payment for crop for the benefit of the San Carlos project of canals, re ser voi rs, pumping plants, water rights, lands, and rights of way, and he may pay for damage to crops and improvements incident to con- str uct ing p roj ect wo rk : Provi ded further, That the S ecreta ry of Contracts authorized y

to deliver water to Ari- the Interior is authorized to contract with the State of Arizona, and zona, towns, etc ., from with towns, villages, and municipalities of that State for delivering San Carlos project . water to them from the San Carlos project upon such terms as he