Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 118.djvu/1731

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118 STAT. 1701 PUBLIC LAW 108–361—OCT. 25, 2004 in the aggregate, as set forth in the Record of Decision, shall not exceed 33.3 percent. (b) PAYMENT FOR BENEFITS.—The Secretary shall ensure that all beneficiaries, including beneficiaries of environmental restora tion and other Calfed program elements, shall pay for the benefit received from all projects or activities carried out under the Calfed Bay Delta Program. (c) INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLANNING.—Federal expenditures for the Calfed Bay Delta Program shall be implemented in a manner that encourages integrated resource planning. SEC. 108. COMPLIANCE WITH STATE AND FEDERAL LAW. Nothing in this title— (1) invalidates or preempts State water law or an interstate compact governing water; (2) alters the rights of any State to any appropriated share of the waters of any body of surface or ground water; (3) preempts or modifies any State or Federal law or inter state compact governing water quality or disposal; (4) confers on any non Federal entity the ability to exercise any Federal right to the waters of any stream or to any ground water resource; or (5) alters or modifies any provision of existing Federal law, except as specifically provided in this title. SEC. 109. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATION. There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary and the heads of the Federal agencies to pay the Federal share of the cost of carrying out the new and expanded authorities described in subsections (e) and (f) of section 103 $389,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2005 through 2010, to remain available until expended. TITLE II—MISCELLANEOUS SEC. 201. SALTON SEA STUDY PROGRAM. Not later than December 31, 2006, the Secretary of the Interior, in coordination with the State of California and the Salton Sea Authority, shall complete a feasibility study on a preferred alter native for Salton Sea restoration. SEC. 202. ALDER CREEK WATER STORAGE AND CONSERVATION PROJECT FEASIBILITY STUDY AND REPORT. (a) STUDY.—Pursuant to Federal reclamation law (the Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388, chapter 1093), and Acts supplemental to and amendatory of that Act (43 U.S.C. 371 et seq.)), the Secretary of the Interior (referred to in this section as the ‘‘Secretary’’), through the Bureau of Reclamation, and in consultation and cooperation with the El Dorado Irrigation District, is authorized to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of constructing a project on Alder Creek in El Dorado County, California, to store water and provide water supplies during dry and critically dry years for consumptive use, recreation, in stream flows, irrigation, and power production. (b) REPORT.— (1) TRANSMISSION.—On completion of the study authorized by subsection (a), the Secretary shall transmit to the Committee Deadline.