1466 Maintenance.
New service connections, financing.
Exception.
Delivery.
Rates.
Collection.
Delinquent payment.
Title, transfer.
Rights-of-way.
PUBLIC LAW 91-557-DEC. 17, 1970
[84 STAT.
(d) Eastern shall have the exclusive right, without charge, to use the supply and distribution facilities owned by the United States lying within the Soboba Indian Reservation, and Eastern shall assume the responsibility for maintaining and operating such facilities. (e) Upon assumption of operation and maintenance of the system by Eastern following completion of the initial installation and rehabilitation work, any new service connections applied for by residents or consumers within the Soboba Indian Reservation, and any other additional water main extensions or facilities required for serving new development within the Soboba Indian Reservation, shall be financed by the applicants for such service, in accordance with the standard rules and regulations of Eastern, except as indicated in the next sentence. As long as title to the lands involved is held in trust by the United States, such new service connections or additional water main extensions or facilities may be financed by the United States to the extent agreed upon by the Secretary of the Interior. All such new service connections, additional extensions, or facilities shall be constructed by Eastern. All such new service connections, additional extensions, or facilities financed by parties other than the United States shall be the property of Eastern, All such service connections, additional extensions, or facilities financed by the United States shall be the property of the United States subject to exclusive use by Eastern without charge. (f) Subject to the limitations of capacity and location of the jointly agreed upon facilities. Eastern shall deliver domestic and irrigation water to each individual consumer within the Soboba Indian Reservation in accordance with the prevailing standard rules and regulations of Eastern and the provisions of the annexation and water service agreement. (g) The retail rates applicable to water service within the Soboba Indian Reservation shall be mutually agreed upon by Eastern and the Secretary of the Interior, and shall be neither less than nor more than the estimated cost of such water service to Eastern, adjusted to reflect differences between estimated costs and actual costs in preceding rate periods. Eastern shall make collections for service in accordance with its prevailing rules and regulations and the Secretary of the Interior shall guarantee payment to Eastern of any delinquent bill for providing water service to lands held in trust within the Soboba Indian Reservation. Water service to a consumer shall be discontinued in accordance with the prevailing rules and regulations of Eastern when a bill for service becomes delinquent, and shall not be resumed as long as the bill is delinquent without prior approval of the Secretary of the Interior. The Secretary shall not approve a resumption of service to an Indian who is able to pay all or a portion of a dehnquent bill and fails to do so. (h) When title restrictions are removed from any part or all of the Soboba Indian Reservation land, the responsibility and duties of the United States under the annexation and water service agreement shall cease with respect to such land, except for the installation and rehabilitation obligations undertaken in subsections 2(c) and (e) unless otherwise provided by Act of Congress. Title to the water distribution facilities serving such lands shall at that time become the property of Eastern and the obligation of Eastern to provide water service to such land at cost to the district shall likewise cease. SEC. 3. The Secretary is authorized to grant to Eastern without charge and subject to such conditions as he may prescribe (a) rights-ofway over Soboba Reservation lands necessary for the use, maintenance, and operation of supply and distribution facilities owned by the United States; (b) rights-of-way within which new service connections
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