90 STAT. 1328
Repayment contract.
PUBLIC LAW 94-423—SEPT. 28, 1976 International Dam, El Paso, Texas, and extending to Riverside Heading; together with laterals, pumping plants, wasteways, and appurtenant facilities as required to assure continuing irrigation service to the project. Existing facilities no longer required for project service shall be removed or obliterated as a part of the program herein authorized. SEC. 402. Construction of the American Canal extension shall not be undertaken until the Secretary of the Interior has entered into a repayment contract with the El Paso County Water Improvement District Number 1, in which said irrigation district contracts to repay to the United States, for fifty years, an annual sum representing the value of eleven thousand six hundred acre-feet of salvaged water at a price per acre-foot established by the Secretary on the basis of an up-to-date payment capacity determination. Costs of the American Canal in excess of those repaid by the El Paso County Water Improvement District Number 1 shall be nonreimbursable and nonreturnable in recognition of benefits accruing to public safety and international considerations. SEC. 403. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1978 and thereafter for construction of the American Canal extension the sum of $21,714,000 (January 1976 price levels), plus or minus such amounts, if any, as may be required by reason of changes in the cost of construction work of the types involved therein as shown by engineering cost indexes. There are also authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be required for the operation and maintenance of the project. TITLE V ALLEN CAMP U N I T,
43 USC 391 note.
Allen Camp Dam and Reservoir.
Integration and coordination with Central Valley project.
Lands eligible to receive water, limitation.
Road and bridges, replacement.
CALIFORNIA
SEC. 501. For the purposes of providing irrigation water supplies, controlling floods, conserving and developing fish and wildlife resources, enhancing outdoor recreation opportunities, and for other related purposes, the Secretary of the Interior, acting pursuant to the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388 and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto), is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain the Allen Camp unit. Pit River division, as an addition to, and an integral part of, the Central Valley project, California. The principal works of the unit shall consist of Allen Camp Dam and Reservoir and necessary water diversion, conveyance, distribution, and drainage facilities, and other appurtenant works for the delivery of water to the unit, a wildlife refuge, channel rectification works and levees, and recreation facilities. SEC. 502. Subject to the provisions of this title, the operation of the Allen Camp unit shall be integrated and coordinated, from both a financial and an operational standpoint, with the operation of other features of the Central Valley project in such manner as will effectuate the fullest, most beneficial, and most economic utilization of the water resources hereby made available. SEC. 503. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, lands held in a single ownership which may be eligible to receive water from, through, or by means of the Allen Camp unit works shall be limited to one hundred and sixty acres of class I land or the equivalent thereof in other land classes, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior. SEC. 504. The costs of the Allen Camp unit allocated to flood control, conservation and development of fish and wildlife resources, and the enhancement of recreation opportunities shall be nonreimbursable. SEC. 505. The Secretary is hereby authorized to replace those roads and bridges now under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture
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