90 STAT. 1324
PUBLIC LAW 9 4 - 4 2 3 ~ S E P T. 28, 1976
Public Law 94-423 94th Congress An Act Sept. 28, 1976 [S. 3283] Reclamation Authorizations Act of 1976.
To authorize various Federal reclamation projects and programs, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act shall be known as the Reclamation Authorizations Act of 1976. TITLE
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KANOPOLIS U N I T, KANSAS
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SEC. 101. The Kanopolis unit, heretofore authorized as an integral part of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin program by the Act of Decem*.., ber 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 887, 891), is hereby reauthorized as part of that project. The construction, operation, and maintenance of the Kanopolis unit for the purposes of providing irrigation water for approximately twenty thousand acres of land, municipal and industrial water supply, fish and wildlife conservation and development, environmental preservation, and other purposes shall be prosecuted by the Secretary of the Interior in collaboration with the Secretary of the Army acting through the Chief of Engineers, in accordance with the Federal 43 USC 391 note, reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902; 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto). The principal features of the Kanopolis unit shall include the modification of the existing Kanopolis Dam and Lake, an irrigation diversion structure, the Kanopolis north and south canals, laterals, drains, and necessary facilities to effect the aforesaid purposes of the unit. Kanopolis SEC. 102. Upon expiration of existing leases for agricultural use of Reservoir area. publicly owned lands, in the Kanopolis Reservoir area, the Secretary of the Army is authorized to enter into a management agreement covering said lands with the Kansas Forestry, Fish and Game Commission. The Secretary of the Army is further authorized to include provisions in such operating agreements whereby revenues deriving from future use of said reservoir lands for agricultural purposes may be retained by the game commission to the extent that they are utilized for wildlife management purposes at Kanopolis Reservoir. SEC. 103. The Kanopolis unit shall be integrated physically and financially with the other Federal works constructed under the comprehensive plan approved by section 9 of the Flood Control Act of December 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 887, 891), as amended and supplemented. Repayment contracts for the return of construction costs allocated to Repayment contracts. irrigation will be based on the irrigator's ability to repay as determined by the Secretary of the Interior, and the terms of such contract shall not exceed fifty years following the permissible development period. Repayment contracts for the return of costs allocated to municipal and industrial water supply shall be under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Army, and such contracts shall be prerequisite to the initiation of construction of facilities authorized by this title. Costs allocated to environmental preservation and fish and wildlife shall be nonreimbursable and nonreturnable under Federal reclamation law.
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