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PUBLIC LAW 88-583-SEPT. 7, 1964
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Public Law 88-583 AN ACT
To provide for the construction of the Lower Teton division of the Teton Basin Federal reclamation project, Idaho, and for other purposes.
September 7, 1964
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in order to F ^ ^ * ° " f cllma' assist in the irrigation of arid and semiarid lands in the upper Snake tion project, River Valley, Idaho, to provide facilities for river power opportuni- waho. ties created thereby and, as incidents to the foregoing purposes, to enhance recreational opportunities and provide for the conservation and development of fish and wildlife, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain the Lower Teton division of the Teton Basin Federal reclamation project. The principal engineering features of the said project shall be a dam and reservoir at the Fremont site, a pumping plant, powerplant, canals and water distribution facilities, ground water development, and related facilities in the upper Snake River Valley, Idaho. I n the construction, operation, and maintenance of the said project and project works the Secretary shall be governed by the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June if, 1902 (32 Stat. 388), and Acts amendatory 43 USC 371 note. thereof and supplementary thereto). The project shall be operated consistent with the existing agreements as to storage rights in the Federal reclamation reservoirs in the upper Snake River Basin. Construction SEC. 2. The period provided in subsection (d) of section 9 of the costs, repayment. Reclamation Project Act of 1939, as amended, for repayment of con- 53 Stat. 1193. struction costs properly allocable to any block of lands and assigned to 43 USC 485h. be repaid by the irrigators may be extended to fifty years, exclusive of a development period, from the time water is first delivered to that block, or as near that number of years as is consistent with the adoption and operation of a repayment formula as therein provided. Costs allocated to irrigation in excess of the amount determined hj the Secretary to be within the ability of the irrigators to lepay within a fifty-year period shall be returned to the reclamation fund from revenues derived by the Secretary from the disposition of power marketed through the Bonneville Power Administration and attributable to Federal projects in Idaho. Outdoor recreaSEC. 3. (a) The Secretary is authorized to construct, operate, and tion facilities. maintain or otherwise provide for basic public outdoor recreation facilities, to acquire or otherwise to include within the division area such adjacent lands or interests therein as are necessary for public recreation use, to allocate water and reservoir capacity to recreation, and to provide for the public use and enjoyment of division lands, facilities, and water areas in a manner coordinated with the other division functions. The Secretary is authorized to enter into agree- Agreements. ments with Federal agencies or State or local public bodies for the operation, maintenance, or additional development of division lands or facilities, or to dispose of division lands or facilities to Federal agencies or State or local public bodies by lease, transfer, conveyance, or exchange upon such terms and conditions as will best promote the development and operation of such lands and facilities in the public interest for recreation purposes. The costs of the aforesaid undertakings, including costs of investigation, planning, Federal operation and maintenance, shall be nonreimbursable. Nothing herein shall limit the authority of the Secretary granted by existing provisions of law relating to recreation development of water resource projects or to disposition of public lands for recreation purposes.
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