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Show (2) of section 1 of said Act is hereby further amended by deleting the words "Pine River extension", and inserting in lieu thereof the words "Animas-LaPlata, Dolores, Dallas Creek, West Divide, San Miguel". Section 2 of said Act is hereby further amended by deleting the words "Parshall, Troublesome, Rabbit Ear, San Miguel, West Divide, Tomichi Creek, East River, Ohio Creek, Dallas Creek, Dolores, Fruit Growers extension, Animas-LaPlata", and inserting after the words "Yellow Jacket" the words "Basalt, Middle Park (including the Troublesome, Rabbit Ear, and Azure units), Upper Gunnison (including the East River, Ohio Creek, and Tomichi Creek units), Lower Yampa (including the Juniper and Great Northern units), Upper Yampa (including the Hay den Mesa, Wessels, and Toponas units)", and by inserting after the word "Sublette" the words "(including the Kendall Reservoir on Green River and a diversion of water from the Green River to the North Platte River Basin in Wyoming), Uintah unit and Ute Indian unit of the Central Utah, San Juan County (Utah), Price River, Grand County (Utah), Ute Indian unit extension of the Central Utah, Gray Canyon, and Juniper (Utah)". The amount which section 12 of said Act authorizes to be appropriated is hereby further increased by the sum of $360,000,000 plus or minus such amounts, if any, as may be required, by reason of changes in construction costs as indicated by engineering cost indexes applicable to the type of construction involved. This additional sum shall be available solely for the construction of the projects herein authorized. (b) The Animas-La Plata" Federal reclamation project shall be constructed and operated in substantial accordance with the engineering plans set out in the report of the Secretary transmitted to the Congress on May 4, 1966, and printed as House Document 436, Eighty-ninth Congress; Provided, (1) That the project construction shall not be undertaken until each of the Governors of the States of Colorado and New Mexico has certified in a manner acceptable to the Secretary that his State has agreed upon mutually satisfactory project operating principles and conditions; and (2) that the project shall always be operated by the Secretary. (c) The Secretary shall, for the Animas-La Plata, Dolores, Dallas Creek, San Miguel, West Divide, and Seedskadee participating projects of the Colorado River storage project, establish the nonexcess irrigable acreage for which any single ownership may receive project water at one hundred and sixty acres of class 1 land or the equivalent thereof as determined by the Secretary, in other land classes. (d) In the diversion and storage of water for any project or any parts thereof constructed under the authority of this Act or the Colorado River Storage Project Act within and for the benefit of the State of Colorado only, the Secretary is directed to comply with the constitution and statutes of the State of Colorado relating to priority of appropriation; with State and Federal court decrees entered pursuant thereto; and with operating principles, if any, adopted by the Secretary and approved by the State of Colorado. (e) The words "any western slope appropriations" contained in paragraph (i) of that section of Senate Document Numbered 80, Seventy-fifth Congress, first session, entitled "Manner of Operation of Project Facilities and Auxiliary Features" shall mean and refer to the appropriation heretofore made for the storage of water in Green Mountain Reservoir, a unit of the Colorado-Big Thompson Federal reclamation project, Colorado; and the Secretary is directed to act in accordance with such meaning and reference. It is the sense of Congress that this directive defines and observes the purpose of said paragraph (i), and does not in any way affect or alter any rights or obligations arising under said Senate Document Numbered 80 or under the laws of the State of Colorado. SEC. 502. The Upper Colorado River Basin fund established under section 5 of the Act of April 11, 1956 (70 Stat. 107), shall be reimbursed from the Colorado River development fund established by section 2 of the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act (54 Stat. 755), for all expenditures heretofore or hereafter made from the Upper Colorado River Basin fund to meet deficiencies in generation at Hoover Dam during the filling period of reservoirs of storage units of the Colorado River storage project pursuant to the criteria for the filling of Glen Canyon Reservoir (27 Fed. Reg. 6851, July 19, 1962). For this purpose $500,000 for each year of operation of Hoover Dam and powerplant, commencing with the enactment of this Act, shall be transferred 59 |