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[76 Stat. 389]
PUBLIC LAW 87-000—MMMM. DD, 1962
[76 Stat. 389]

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PUBLIC LAW 87-590-AUG. 16, 1962

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any development period, from the time water is first delivered to that block. Costs allocated to irrigation in excess of the amount determined by the Secretary to be within the ability of the irrigators to repay within the repayment period or periods herein specified, shall be returned to the reclamation fund within such period or periods from revenues derived by the Secretary of the Interior from the disposition of power marketed through the Federal power system in southern Idaho. SEC. 3. (a) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in connec- Recreation fation with the Mann Creek project, to construct minimum basic public ainV^^' °°"'^*'^*^ recreation facilities, and to acquire such lands as may be necessary for that purpose, substantially in accordance with the plan in the report of the Secretary of the Interior, but such facilities (other than those necessary to protect the project works and the visiting public) shall not be constructed until an agreement has been executed by the State of Idaho, an agency or political subdivision thereof, or an appropriate local agency or organization to assume the management and operation of the facilities. The cost of constructing such facilities shall be nonreimbursable and nonreturnable under the reclamation laws. (b) The Secretary may make such reasonable provision in the works F i s h and wildauthorized by this Act as he finds to be required for the conservation life, conservation. and development of fish and wildlife in accordance with the provisions of the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (48 Stat. 401, as amended; 16 U.S.C. 661, and the following), and the portion of the 60 Stat. 1080; construction costs allocated to these purposes, together with an appro- 72 Stat. 563. priate share of the operation, maintenance, and replacement costs therefor, shall be nonreimbursable and nonreturnable. Before the works are transferred to an irrigation water users' organization for care, operation, and maintenance, the organization shall have agreed to operate them in such fashion, satisfactory to the Secretary, as to achieve the benefits to fish and wildlife on which the allocation of costs therefor is predicated, and to return the works to the United States for care, operation, and maintenance in the event of failure to comply with his requirements to achieve such benefits. SEC. 4. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for construe- Appropriation, tion of the works herein authorized the sum of $3,490,000 (April 1961 prices). There are also authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be required for the operation and maintenance of said works. Approved August 16, 1962.

Public Law 87-590 AN ACT To authorize the construction, operation, and maintenance by the Secretary of the Interior of the Fryingpan-Arkansas project, Colorado.

Be it enacted by the Senate and Tlou^e of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purposes of supplying water for irrigation, municipal, domestic, and industrial uses, generating and transmitting hydroelectric power and energy, and controlling floods, and for other useful and beneficial purposes incidental thereto, including recreation and the conservation and development of fish and wildlife, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain the Fryingpan-Arkansas project, Colorado, in substantial accordance with the engineering plans therefor set forth in House Document Numbered 187, Eightythird Congress, modified as proposed in the September 1959 report of

August 16, 1962 [H, R. 2206]

interior Depart'"^p'ryingpanArkansas project, "construction authorization.