PUBLIC LAW 98-381—AUG. 17, 1984
98 STAT. 1339
(h)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any claim that the provisions of subsection (a) of this section violates any rights to capacity or energy from the Boulder Canyon project is barred unless the complaint is filed within one year after the date of enactment of this Act in the United States Claims Court which shall have exclusive jurisdiction over this action. An;^ claim that actions taken by any administrative agency of the United States violates any right under this title or the Boulder Canyon Project Act or the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act is barred unless suit asserting such -claim is filed in a Federal court of competent jurisdiction within one year after final refusal of such agency to correct the action complained of. (2) Any contract entered into pursuant to section 105 or section 107 of this Act shall contain provisions by which any dispute or disagreement as to interpretation or performance of the provisions of this title or of applicable regulations or of the contract may be determined by arbitration or court proceedings. The Secretary of Energy or the Secretary of the Interior, as the case may be, if authorized to act for the United States in such arbitration or court proceedings and, except as provided in paragraph (1) of this subsection, jurisdiction is conferred upon any district court of the United States of proper venue to determine the dispute. (i) It is the purpose of subsections (c), (g), and (h) of this section to ensure that the rights of contractors for capacity and energy from the Boulder Canyon project for the period beginning June 1, 1987, and ending September 30, 2017, will vest with certainty and finality. SEC. 106. Reimbursement of funds advanced by non-Federal purchasers for the uprating program shall be a repayment requirement of the Boulder Canyon project beginning with the first day of the month following completion of each segment thereof. The cost of the visitor facilities program as defined in section 101(a) of this Act shall become a repayment requirement beginning June 1, 1987, or when substantially completed, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior, if later. SEC. 107. (a) Subject to the provisions of any existing layoff contracts, electrical capacity and energy associated with the United States' interest in the Navajo generating station which is in excess of the pumping requirements of the Central Arizona project and any such needs for desalting and protective pumping facilities as may be required under section 1010t)X2)(B) of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act of 1974, as amended (hereinafter in this Act referred to as "Navajo surplus") shall be marketed and exchanged by the Secretary of Energy pursuant to this section. (b) Navajo surplus shall be marketed by the Secretary of Energy pursuant to the plan adopted under subsection (c) of this section, directly to, with or through the Arizona Power Authority and/or other entities having the status of preference entities under the reclamation law in accordance with the preference provisions of section 9(c) of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 and as provided in part IV, section A of the Criteria. (c) In the marketing and exchanging of Navajo surplus, the Secretary of the Interior shall adopt the plan deemed most acceptable, after consultation with the Secretary of Energy, the Governor of Arizona, and the Central Arizona Water Conservation District (or its successor in interest to the repayment obligation for the Central Arizona project), for the purposes of optimizing the availability of Navajo surplus and providing financial assistance in the timely
43 USC 6i7t. 43 USC 6i8o.
43 USC 6i9b.
42 USC 7133 note.
43 USC I57i.
43 USC 485h.
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