1488
Water supply,
43 USC 620.
PUBLIC LAW 93-493-OCT. 27, 1974
[88 STAT.
properly assignable. This shall include contracts for furnishing water outside the boundaries of Page, Arizona, utilizing the municipal system: Provided, That the contract which the United States has executed with a private utility for furnishing and distributing electrical energy to the municipality shall be assigned to the municipality upon its request: And provided further, That in the assignment of the contract for the operation of the Page Hospital the operating fund balance under said contract, together with all hospital accounts receivable, shall be transferred to the municipality for the same purpose as a part of the assignment of said contract. gj.^. 104. Tlicrc Is hereby reserved for the Glen Canyon imit, Colorado River storage project, the consumptive use of not to exceed three thousand acre-feet of water per year from Lake Powell, of which not to exceed two thousand seven hundred and forty acre-feet of consumptive use of water are hereby assigned to the municipality, consistent with the Navajo Tribal Council resolution numbered CJN-50-69, dated June 3, 1969: Provided, That upon incorporation the municipality shall enter into a contract satisfactory to the Secretary covering payment for and delivery of such water pursuant to the Colorado j^iver Storage Project Act of June 11, 1956 (70 Stat. 105), which contract shall among other things provide that: (a) The reservation and assignment of the consumptive use of water from Lake Powell under this section shall be subject to the apportionments of consumptive use of water to the State of Arizona in article III of the Colorado River Compact and article III (a)(1) of the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact. (b) Title to the water pumping and conveyance systems within the Glen Canyon Dam and powerplant necessary to supply water to the municipality for culinary, industrial, and municipal purposes shall be retained by the United States until the Congress provides otherwise. (c) Such retained facilities shall be operated and maintained by the Secretary at the expense of the United States until termination of the fifth fiscal year following the year of incorporation. Not to exceed two thousand seven hundred and forty acre-feet of water per annum or three million gallons of water in any twenty-four-hour period, will be pumped by the United States from Lake Powell to the water treatment plant, or to such intermediate points of delivery as shall be mutually agreed upon by the municipality and the United States for use by the municipality. (d) Beginning with the sixth year following incorporation and continuing through the tenth year, the municipality shall in each year pay to the United States proportionately increasing increments of the annual costs, including depreciation of the pumping equipment, involved in subsection (c) above with the objective that following the close of said tenth year the municipality shall thereafter bear such costs in total, according to the following schedule: Year following incorporation: Sixth Seventh Eighth Ninth Tenth Thereafter
Portion of cost in subsection (c) of section 104 to be paid to United States each year by municipality (per centum) 20 40 60 80 80 100
(e) Upon incorporation and at all times thereafter, the municipality shall bear all costs for operation, maintenance, and replacement of the municipal water system beyond Glen Canyon Dam and powerplant, including but not limited to filtration, treatment, and distribution of
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