1260
PUBLIC LAW 780-SEPT. 3, 1954
[68 S T A T.
shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation available for construction of the dam and used by the Chief of Engineers for that purpose; and the balance of such costs determined by the Chief of Engineers to be allocable to construction of Canyon Dam and Reservoir shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States. Facilities for the development of electric power at Canyon Dam and Reservoir may be constructed and operated by the Corps of Engineers, or by local interests in accordance with the provisions of 49*stal*863 ^°^^' ^^^ Federal Power Act and in accordance with this Act, with all 16 USC 791a. gXpeuses of construction, operation, and maintenance of such facilities to be paid by local interests and with such power to be made available to such local interests. Of the contributions to be paid by local interests toward the cost of construction of Canyon Dam and Reservoir, $1,400,000 shall be paid in such manner, and at such time or times during the period of such construction, as the Chief of Engineers shall determine. The remainder of the contributions allocated to local interests, with interest thereon at the rate of 2i^ per centum per annum, shall be paid as prescribed by the Chief of Engineers over a period not in excess of fifty years. The Chief of Engineers shall enter into an agreement with local interests providing for the payments heretofore described and for all other matters relating to the operation and maintenance of the Canyon Dam and Reservoir which require the cooperation of local interests. Such agreement may provide for utilization of the water impounded for water conservation and stream-flow regulation for development of electric power; except that the agreement shall provide that the utilization of water for power development shall not be allowed to conflict with the flood-control and sedimentation purposes of the Canyon Dam and Reservoir. PECOS RIVER B A S I N
The project for flood protection on the Pecos River, Texas and New Mexico, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, dated March 26, 1954, at an estimated cost of $9,540,000: Provided, That no appropriations shall be made for construction of Los Esteros Reservoir until satisfactory arrangements have been made by the State of New Mexico for the transfer of irrigation storage from the Alamagordo Reservoir. RIO GRANDE B A S I N
The project for flood protection in the Rio Grande Basin at Albuquerque, New Mexico, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 464, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $7,500,000._ The project for flood protection on the Rio Hondo River at Roswell, New Mexico, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 486, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $5,658,000. W H I T E RIVER B A S I N
52 Stat. 1218.
The general comprehensive plan for flood control and other purposes for the White River Basin approved by the Flood Control Act of Juiic 28, 1938, as amended, is hereby modified to provide for the generation of power in conjunction with flood control at the Greers
�
