714
Results of studies, submission to Congress.
Pacific Northwest reclamation projects, financing.
Limitation.
'Net reve-
PUBLIC LAW 89-561-SEPT. 7, 1966
[80
STAT.
Missouri River Basin project, Smoky Hill division, Kanopolis unit on the Smoky Hill River below the existing Kanopolis Dam in central Kansas; Missouri River Basin project, Elkhorn division. Highland unit, on the Upper Elkhorn River in northeastern Nebraska; Missouri River Basin project, Solomon division. Glen Elder irrigation unit, on the Solomon River in the vicinity of the towns of Downs and Delphos, Kansas; Missouri River Basin project, Kanaska division. Nelson Buck union on Beaver Creek in northwestern Kansas. SEC. 4. The Secretary, pursuant to the authority contained in sections 2 and 3 of this Act, shall submit to the Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs of the Senate and House of Representatives within one year after completion of the final feasibility plan those studies of proposals determined to be feasible, with whatever alternate studies that may have been developed for the construction, operation, and maintenance of each water resource project or proposal in all instances where practical alternatives are known to the Secretary. The Secretary shall provide all the data and information developed on shortterm and long-term benefits and costs necessary for the comprehensive and integrated development of each water resource project or proposal, including any and all factors directly, indirectly, ancillary, and/or incidental to the comprehensive development of each water resource proj ect or proposal. SEC. 5, The Secretary may accelerate feasibility studies authorized by law when and to the extent that the costs of such studies shall have been advanced by non-Federal sources. SEC. 6. Section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain a third powerplant at the Grand Coulee Dam, Columbia Basin project, Washington, and for other purposes", approved June 14, 1966 (80 Stat. 200) is amended— (1) by inserting " (a) "after "SEC. 2"; (2) by striking out "That" at the beginning of the third sentence and inserting in lieu thereof "Subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, that"; and (3) by inserting at the end of such section two new subsections as follows: " (b) I t is declared to be the policy of the Congress that reclamation projects hereafter authorized in the "Pacific Northwest to receive financial assistance from the Federal Columbia River power system shall receive such assistance only from the net revenues of that system as provided in this subsection, and that their construction shall be so scheduled that such assistance, together with similar assistance for previously authorized reclamation projects (including projects not now receiving such assistance for which the Congress may hereafter authorize financial assistance) will not cause increases in the rates and charges of the Bonneville Power Administration. It is further declared to be the policy of the Congress that the total assistance to all irrigation projects, both existing and future, in the Pacific Northwest shall not a v e r a ^ more than $30,000,000 annually in any period of twenty consecutive years. Any analyses and studies authorized by the Congress for reclamation projects in the Pacific Northwest shall be prepared in accordance with the provisions of this section. As used m this'section, the term "net revenues" means revenues as determined from time to time which are not required for the repayment of (1) all costs allocated to power at projects m the Pacific Northwest then existing or authorized, including the cost of acquiring power by purchase
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