Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 98 Part 1.djvu/459

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PUBLIC LAW 98-000—MMMM. DD, 1984

PUBLIC LAW 98-360-JULY 16, 1984 and said appropriations shall be reimbursed for services rendered to any other activity in the same manner as authorized by the Act of June 30, 1932 (31 U.S.C. 686): Provided, That reimbursements for costs of supplies, materials, equipment, and for services rendered may be credited to the appropriation current at the time such reimbursements are received. SEC. 204. Appropriations in this title shall be available for hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; hire of passenger motor vehicles; purchases of reprints; payment for telephone services in private residences in the field, when authorized under regulations approved by the Secretary; and the payment of dues, when authorized by the Secretary, for library membership in societies or associations which issue publications to members only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers who are not members. SEC. 205. The cost of foundation treatment, drainage, and instrumentation work planned or under way at Twin Buttes Dam, Texeis, shall be nonreimbursable under Federal reclamation laws. SEC. 206. The cost of foundation treatment, drainage, and instrumentation work planned or underway at Foss Dam, Oklahoma, shall be nonreimbursable and nonreturnable under the Federal reclamation law. SEC. 207. (a) It is the sense of Congress that— (1) the Garrison Diversion Unit was authorized by Congress and reflects the entitlement of the State of North Dakota to a i federally funded water development program as compensation for North Dakota's contributions to the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin program; (2) there is a need to put to beneficial use water from the Missouri River within the State of North Dakota; (3) there are municipal and industrial water resource problems in North Dakota that are presently unmet; (4) there are irrigation and agricultural water needs in areas which cannot be met by the Garrison Diversion Unit as presently authorized; (5) the Garrison Diversion Unit, as presently authorized, ^ raises significant issues of economic, environmental, and international concern; • (6) the water needs of the State of North Dakota should be resolved by contemporary water development alternatives; and (7) a Secretarial commission should be established to examine the water needs of North Dakota and propose development alternatives which will lead to the early resolution of the problems identified, (b) No funds appropriated under this title for the Garrison Diversion Unit, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin program, shall be expended or committed for expenditure on construction contracts prior to December 31, 1984. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, funds appropriated may be expended or committed for expenditure for the work associated with the commission established by this section. Funds may be expended or committed for expenditure after such date for construction of the Garrison Diversion Unit— (1) in accordance with the recommendations of the Secretarial commission established under subsection (c); or (2) if the commission fails to make such recommendations, as presently authorized. (c)(1) The Secretary of the Interior shall, within thirty days after the date of enactment of this section, appoint a commission, com-

98 STAT. 411

31 USC 1535, 1536.

Twin Buttes Dam, Tex. FOSS Dam,

okia.

Garrison Diversion Unit, N. Dak.