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PUBLIC LAW 93-493-OCT. 27, 1974
[88 STAT.
price levels) plus or minus such amounts, if any, as may be justified by reason of changes in construction costs as indicated by engineering cost indices applicable to the types of construction involved. TITLE IX GLENDO U N I T ROAD RECONSTRUCTION,
Appropriation.
WYOMING
SEC. 901. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to relocate, reconstruct, and rehabilitate the road that was initially relocated in connection with the construction of Glendo Dam and Reservoir to provide a safe, durable, two-lane highway for public use. ggc. 902. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the relocation, reconstruction, and rehabilitation of said highway the sum of $284,000 (January 1974 price levels) plus or minus such amounts, if any, as may be justified by reason of ordinary fluctuation in construction cost indices applicable to the types of construction involved herein. TITLE X N U E C E S RIVER P R O J E C T, TEXAS
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ggQ_ 1001. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain the Nueces River project, Texas, in accordance 43 USC 3 91 ^i<3}^ i-he Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, note. and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto) and the provisions of this title and the plan set out in the report of the Secretary on this project with such modification of, omissions from, or additions to the works, as the Secretary may find proper and necessary for the purposes of storing, regulating, and furnishing water for municipal and industrial use, conserving and developing fish and wildlife resources, and providing outdoor recreation opportunities. The principal features of the project shall consist of the Choke Canyon Dam and Reservoir on the Frio River and public outdoor recreation and sport fishing facilities. eosts, repaySEC. 1002. (a) Costs of the project, allocated to municipal and ment. industrial water supply, shall be repayable to the United States in 43 USC 600g-l not more than forty years under either the provisions of the Federal reclamation laws or under the provisions of the Water Supply Act of 43 USC 390b. 1958 (title III of Public Law 85-500,72 Stat. 319, and Acts mandatory thereof or supplementary thereto): Provided, That, in either case, repayment of costs allocated to municipal and industrial water supply shall include interest on the unamortized balance. (b) The interest rate used for computing interest during construction and interest on the unpaid balance of the reimbursable costs of the project allocated to municipal and industrial water supply shall be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, as of the beginning of the fiscal year in which construction of the project is commenced, on the basis of the computed average interest payable by the Treasury upon its outstanding marketable public obligations which are neither due nor callable for redemption for fifteen years from date of issue. Water delivery, gj,^ 1003. (a) Tfic Secretary is authorized to enter into a contract cVi^t^ucUon with a qualified entity or entities, for delivery of water and for repaycosts repaymcut of the balajicc of the reimbursable construction costs. "" 4"'usc"*6oog-2 (b) Construction of the project shall not be commenced until a suitable contract has been executed by the Secretary with a qualified entity or entities. (c) Such contract may be entered into without regard to the last sentence of section 9, subsection (c), of the Reclamation Project Act of 43 USC 485h. 1939.
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