PUBLIC LAW 99-294—MAY 12, 1986 "(2) The costs of the study authorized by this subsection shall be nonreimbursable. "(3) The study authorized by this subsection shall be carried out in accordance with the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act. "(d) The Secretary is prohibited from obligating funds to construct irrigation facilities in the service areas listed in subsection (a)(1) until a contract or contracts, in a form approved by the Secretary, providing for the appropriate payment of the costs allocated to irrigation have been properly executed by a district or districts organized under State law. Such contract or contracts shall be consistent with the requirements of the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982 (title II, Public Law 97-293, 96 Stat. 1263). "(e) The Secretary is authorized to develop irrigation in the following project service areas within the boundaries of the Fort Berthold and Standing Rock Indian Reservations: Lucky Mound (7,700 acres). Upper Six Mile Creek (7,500 acres), and Fort Yates (2,380 acres), except that, no funds are authorized to be appropriated for construction of these projects until the Secretary has made a finding of irrigability of the lands to receive water as required by the Act of July 31, 1953 (67 Stat. 266; 43 U.S.C. 390a). Repayment for the units authorized under this subsection shall be made pursuant to the Leavitt Act (25 U.S.C. 386a). "(f) The Secretary shall not permit the use of project facilities for non-project drainage not included in project design or required for project operations.".
100 STAT. 421
42 USC 4321 note, Contracts,
43 USC 390aa.
SEC. 4. POWER.
Section 6 of the Act of August 5, 1965 (Public Law 89-108, 79 Stat. 433) is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 6. (a) Municipal, rural, and industrial water systems constructed with funds authorized by section 7 of this Act shall utilize power from the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, as established by section 9 of the Flood Control Act of 1944 (Act of December 22, 1944), for the operation of such systems. 58 Stat. 891. "(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 302(a)(3) of the Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C 7152(a)(3)), any portion of the costs properly chargeable to irrigation for the Garrison Diversion Unit which are beyond the ability of water users to repay as authorized by Reclamation law may be repaid from power revenues, except repayment of investment in irrigation for the Garrison Diversion Unit made after the date of enactment of this Act may not exceed forty years from the year in which irrigation water is first delivered for use by the contracting party and shall be made in equal annual installments. "(c) Pursuant to the provisions of the last sentence of section 302(a)(3) of the Department of Energy Organization Act of 1978 (42 U.S.C. 7152(a)(3)), any reallocation of costs to project purposes other than irrigation as a result of section 1(e) of this Act shall not result in increased rates to Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program customers unless: (1) full use has been made of the current development method of ratesetting in analyzing the repayment status and cost allocations for the Garrison Diversion Unit and (2) the resulting rate increase, if any, is made in equal amounts over the ten year period beginning on the date of any such reallocation pursuant to this Act. Costs reallocated to project purposes other than irrigation as a result of section 1(e) of this Act shall be repaid, if reimbursable, with
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