Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 110 Part 6.djvu/403

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PUBLIC LAW 104-333—NOV. 12, 1996 110 STAT. 4225 and Wildlife and one from the Oregon Water Resources Department; (I) four representatives from the local community; (J) one representative each from the following Federal resource management agencies in the Upper Klamath Basin: Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Indisin Affairs, Forest Service, Natural Resources Conservation Service, National Marine Fisheries Service and Ecosystem Restoration Office; and (K) one representative of the Klamath County Soil and Water Conservation District. (3) SECRETARY.— The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Interior. (4) TASK FORCE. —The term 'Task Force" means the Klamath River Basin Fisheries Task Force as established by the Klamath River Basin Fishery Resource Restoration Act (Public Law 99-552, 16 U.S.C. 460ss-3 et seq.). (5) COMPACT COMMISSION.— The term "Compact Commission" means the Klamath River Basin Compact Commission created pursuant to the Klamath River Compact Act of 1954. (6) CONSENSUS. —The term "consensus" means a unanimous agreement by the Working Group members present and consisting of at least a quorum at a regularly scheduled business meeting. (7) QUORUM. —The term "quorum" means one more than half of those qualified Working Group members appointed and eligible to serve. (8) TRINITY TASK FORCE.—The term "Trinity Task Force" means the Trinity River Restoration Task Force created by Public Law 98-541, as amended by Public Law 104-143. (b) IN GENERAL. — (1) The Working Group through the Ecosystem Restoration Office, with technical assistance from the Secretary, will propose ecological restoration projects, economic development and stability projects, and projects designed to reduce the impacts of drought conditions to be undertaken in the Upper Klamath Basin based on a consensus of the Working Group membership. (2) The Secretary shall pay, to the greatest extent feasible, up to 50 percent of the cost of performing any project approved by the Secretary or his designee, up to a total amount of $1,000,000 during each of fiscal years 1997 through 2001. (3) Funds made available under this title through the Department of the Interior or the Department of Agriculture shall be distributed through the Ecosystem Restoration Office. (4) The Ecosystem Restoration Office may utilize not more than 15 percent of all Federal funds administered under this section for administrative costs relating to the implementation of this section. (5) All funding recommendations developed by the Working Group shall be based on a consensus of Working Group members. (c) COORDINATION.—(1) The Secretary shall formulate a cooperative agreement among the working group, the Task Force, the Trinity Task Force and the Compact Commission for the purposes of ensuring that projects proposed and funded through the Working Group are consistent with other basin-wide fish and wild-