PUBLIC LAW 96-69—SEPT. 25, 1979
93 STAT. 444
TITLE III—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF RECLAMATION
For carrying out the functions of the Bureau of Reclamation as provided in the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 43 USC 371 note. Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto) and other Acts applicable to that Bureau, as follows: GENERAL INVESTIGATIONS
For engineering and economic investigations of proposed Federal reclamation projects and studies of water conservation and development plans and activities preliminary to the reconstruction, rehabilitation and betterment, financial adjustment, or extension of existing projects, to remain available until expended, $34,451,000, to be derived from the reclamation fund: Provided, That none of this appropriation shall be used for more than one-half of the cost of an investigation requested by a State, municipality, or other interest. ^s
San Luis Unit interceptor drain.
Central Oregon Irrigation District. 43 USC 504.
92 Stat. 2472.
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CONSTRUCTION AND REHABILITATION
For construction and rehabilitation of authorized reclamation projects or parts thereof (including power transmission facilities for reclamation use) and for other related activities, as authorized by law to remain available until expended, $213,053,000, of which $60,000,000 shall be derived from the reclamation fund: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to initiate the construction of transmission facilities within those areas covered by power wheeling service contracts which include provision for service to Federal establishments and preferred customers, except those transmission facilities for which construction funds have been heretofore appropriated, those facilities which are necessary to carry out the terms of such contracts or those facilities for which the Secretary of the Interior finds the wheeling agency is unable or unwilling to provide for the integration of Federal projects or for service to a Federal establishment or preferred customer: Provided further. That the final point of discharge for the interceptor drain for the San Luis Unit shall not be determined until development by the Secretary of the Interior and the State of California of a plan, which shall conform with the water quality standards of the State of California as approved by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to minimize any detrimental effect of the San Luis drainage waters: Provided further. That of the amount herein appropriated not to exceed $344,000 for the Central Oregon Irrigation District shall be available for construction on a rehabilitation and betterment program under the Act of October 7, 1949 (63 Stat. 724), as amended, to be repaid in full under conditions satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior: Provided further, That currently unobligated funds from appropriations made under this heading for payment of Teton Dam disaster claims shall be available to pay costs to irrigation spaceholder contracting entities for American Falls Dam pursuant to section 7, Reclamation Safety of Dams Act (Public Law 95-578), and shall be nonreimbursable in accordance with the terms of that Act. UPPER COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT
For the Upper Colorado River Storage Project, as authorized by the Act of April 11, 1956, as amended (43 U.S.C. 620d), to remain available
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