PUBLIC LAW 94-587—OCT. 22, 1976
90 STAT. 2945
retary of the Interior in determining reimbursable costs, shall not include the costs of replacing and relocating the original Salisbury Ridge section of the 138-kilovolt transmission line: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, shall relocate such transmission lines, at an estimated cost of $5,641,000.". (b) The Crater-Long Lakes division of the Snettisham project near Snettisham Juneau, Alaska, as authorized by section 204 of the Flood Control Act project, Juneau, of 1962, is modified with respect to the reimbursement payments to the Alaska, United States on such project in order to provide (1) that the repay- modification. ment period shall be sixty years, (2) that the first annual payment 76 Stat. 1173. shall be 0.1 per centum of the total principal amount to be repaid, (3) thereafter annual payments shall be increased by 0.1 per centum of such total each year until the tenth year at which time the payment shall be 1 per centum of such total, and (4) subsequent annual payments for the remaining fifty years of the sixty-year repayment period shall be one-fiftieth of the balance remaining after the tenth annual payment (including interest over such sixty-year period). SEC. 202. (a) The Congress finds that drift and debris on or in pub- 33 USC 426m. licly maintained commercial boat harbors and the land and water areas immediately adjacent thereto threaten navigational safety, public health, recreation, and the harborfront environment. (b)(1) The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, shall be responsible for developing projects for the collection and removal of drift and debris from publicly maintained commercial boat harbors and from land and water areas immediately adjacent thereto. (2) The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers is authorized to undertake projects developed under paragraph (1) of this subsection without specific congressional approval when the total Federal cost for the project is less than $400,000. (c) The Federal share of the cost of any project developed pursuant to subsection (b) of this section shall be two-thirds of the cost of the project. The remainder of such costs shall be paid by the State, municipality, or other political subdivision in which the project is to be located, except that any costs associated with the collections and removal of drift and debris from federally owned lands shall be borne by the Federal Government. Non-Federal interests in future project development under subsection (b) of this section shall be required to recover the full cost of drift or debris removal from any identified owner of piers or other potential sources of drift or debris, or to repair such sources so that they no longer create a potential source of drift or debris. (d) Any State, municipality, or other political subdivision where any project developed pursuant to subsection (b) of this section is located shall provide all lands, easements, and right-of-way necessary for the project, including suitable access and disposal areas, and shall agree to maintain such projects and hold and save the United States free from any damages which may result from the non-Federal sponsor's performance of, or failure to perform, any of its required responsibilities of cooperation for the project. Non-Federal interest shall agree to regulate any project area following project completion so that such area will not become a future source of drift and debris. The Chief of Engineers shall provide technical advice to non-Federal interests on the implementation of this subsection.
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