PUBLIC LAW 96-336—SEPT. 4, 1980
94 STAT. 1063
Public Law 96-336 96th Congress An Act To increase the appropriations ceiling for title I of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act (the Act of June 24, 1974; 88 Stat. 266), to increase the appropriations authorization for the Small Reclamation Projects Act of 1956 (70 Stat. 1044), and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the Act of June 24, 1974 (hereafter referred to as the "Act"), is hereby amended as follows: SECTION 1. Section 101(b)(2) is amended, by inserting "(A)" after "(2)", by deleting the last sentence of the paragraph, and by adding thereafter the following: "(B) The Secretary is authorized to use electrical power and energy available from the Navajo Generating Station which is in excess of the Central Arizona Project pumping requirements for the purpose of supplying power and energy requirements of the desalting plant and protective pumping well field constructed pursuant to title I of the Act: Provided, That revenues credited to the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund shall not be diminished below those amounts which would have accrued had the power been marketed at the rate determined by the Secretary of Energy for the sale of power from the Navajo Generating Station to utilities and public entities, as a result of the use of power and energy for the desalting, protective pumping works, and other uses authorized by law, and that power and energy from the Navajo Generating Station shall be used first to meet the pumping requirements of the Central Arizona Project and after those needs have been met, for the desalting and protective pumping facilities constructed pursuant to title I of the Act, and finally for other uses: Provided further. That prior to obtaining power from the Navajo Generating Station under the authority of this subsection, the Secretary shall complete an analysis of alternative sources of supply, including but not limited to the possibility of developing an agreement with the Republic of Mexico whereby the United States (or a non-Federal entity) would enter into contractual arrangements with Mexico for a sufficient supply of power to operate the desalting plant, the regulatory pumping fields and appurtenant facilities. "(C) Effective October 1, 1979, and to such extent and in such amounts as are provided in advance in appropriation Acts, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to purchase supplemental power and energy as required for the purposes of supplying the power and energy requirements of the desalting plant and protective pumping well field.". SEC. 2. Section 101(c) is amended by inserting ", Colorado River waters used for the mitigation of fish and wildlife habitat losses" after "from the desalting plant" in two places. SEC. 3. Section 103(a) of the Act is amended by adding a new subsection (4) as follows:
Sept. 4, 1980 [S. 496]
Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act and Small Reclamation Projects Act of 1956, amendments. 43 USC 1571 note. 43 USC 422k. 43 USC 1571. 43 USC 1571.
Supplemental power and energy purchase. Effective date.
43 USC 1573.
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