79 STAT. ]
PUBLIC LAW 89-298-OCT. 27, 1965
1079
The project for flood protection on the Arkansas Eiver at Great Bend, Kansas, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 182, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $4,030,000. The project for establishment of a national wildlife refuge at the John Redmond Dam and Reservoir, Grand (Neosho) River, Kansas, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 27, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $730,000. The project for flood protection on the Walnut River, Kansas, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 232, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $66,036,000. The project for the Shidler Dam and Reservoir, Salt Creek, Oklahoma, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 242, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $6,150,000. The project for flood protection on Crutcho Creek, Oklahoma, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 47, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,801,000. The project for Trinidad Dam on Purgatoire River, Colorado, House c^o'"^^'^ °^" Document Numbered 325, Eighty-fourth Congress, authorized by the project modiFlood Control Act of 1958 (72 Stat. 297) is hereby modified to provide "^/2"st"at i that in lieu of the local cooperation recommended in paragraph 2(a) of the report of the Chief of Engineers dated July 22, 1954, published in said document, local interests shall maintain the channel of Purgatoire River through the city of Trinidad. The conditions set forth in paragraphs 2(b) and 2(c) of said report shall be applicable to the project. The John Martin Reservoir project (formerly known as Caddoa ReservJlirrSjio. Reservoir), Arkansas River, Colorado, as authorized by the Acit of project modi-' June 22, 1936 (49 Stat. 1570), is modified to authorize and direct the fi^«"°"Chief of Engineers to use not to exceed ten thousand acre-feet of reservoir flood control storage space for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a permanent pool for fish and wildlife and recreational purposes, at such times as storage space may not be available for such permanent pool within the conservation pool as defined in article III F, Arkansas River compact (63 Stat. 145) except that— (1) The State of Colorado shall purchase and make available ^^*'"" '•^^^'*^" any water rights necessary under State law to establish and thereafter maintain the permanent pool. (2) The rights of irrigators in Colorado and Kansas to those waters available to them under the terms of the Arkansas River compact and under the laws of their respective States shall not be diminished or impaired by anything contained in this paragraph. (3) Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed so as to give any preference to the permanent pool over other project purposes. (4) No permanent pool as hereiin defined shall be maintained except upon written terms and conditions acceptable and agreed to (A) by the Chief of Engineers in the interest of flood control, and (B) by the Colorado State Engineer, the Arkansas River Compact Administration, and the Cmorado Water Conservation Board, in the interest of establishing, maintaining, and operating the permanent pool for recreational and fish and wildlife purposes. (5) Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed so as to limit
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