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Show APPENDIX XIV XIV 7 (1) the portion of the existing repayment obligation owing to the United States allocable to irrigable acreage eliminated from the division for the purposes of this Act, as determined by the Secretary, shall be nonreimbursable; and (2) if deemed appropriate by the Secretary, the district shall be given credit against its outstanding repayment obligation to offset any increase in operation and maintenance assessments per acre which may result from the district's decreased operation and maintenance base, all as determined by the Secretary. (j) The Act of July 30, 1947 (61 Stat. 628), is hereby amended to reduce the authorized irrigable acreage of the division as provided in section 201 (e) herein. (k) The Secretary is authorized to acquire through the Corps of Engineers fee title to, or other necessary interests in, additional lands above the Painted Rock Dam in Arizona that are required for the temporary storage capacity needed to permit operation of the dam and reservoir in times of serious flooding. The Secretary is also authorized, in conjunction with the Corps of Engineers, to adopt other control measures below the dam to permit the United States to comply with its obligations under minute numbered 242. No funds shall be expended for acquisition of land or interests therein until it is finally determined by a Federal court of competent jurisdiction that the Corps of Engineers presently lacks legal authority to use said lands for this purpose. Nothing contained in this Act nor any action taken pursuant to it shall be deemed to be a recognition or admission of any obligation to the owners of such land on the part of the United States or a limitation or deficiency in the rights or powers of the United States with respect to such land or the operation of the reservoir. (1) To the extent desirable to carry out sections 101(f)(1) and 101(h), the Secretary may transfer funds to the Secretary of Agriculture as may be required for technical assistance to farmers, conduct of research and demonstration and such related investigations as are required to achieve higher onfarm irrigation efficiencies. (m) AH cost associated with the desalting complex shall be nonreimbursable except as provided in sections 101 (f) and 101 (g). SEC. 102. (a) The Secretary is authorized to construct a new concrete-lined canal or to line the presently unlined portion of the Coachella Canal of the Boulder Canyon project in California from station 2 + 26 to the beginning of siphon number 7, a length of approximately forty-nine miles. (b) The total construction charges shall be repayable without interest in equal annual installments over a period of forty years beginning in the year following completion of construction: Provided, That repayment shall be prorated by the Secretary between the United States and the Coachella Valley County Water District based upon the benefits that each receives from the project authorized by section 102(a), all as determined by the Secretary. The annual repayment installments shall be nonreimbursable to the extent the Secretary determines that the United States benefits from the project by virtue of the use of water saved in meeting the international settlement objective of this Act. In no event shall the United States reserve such benefit after the Secretary reduces deliveries of mainstream Colorado River water to California to 4.4 million acre-feet per year. (c) The Secretary is authorized to acquire by purchase, eminent domain, or exchange private lands or interests therein, as may be determined by him to be appropriate, within the Imperial Irrigation District on the Imperial East Mesa which receive, or which have been granted rights to receive, water from Imperial Irrigation District's capacity in the Coachella Canal. Costs of such acquisitions shall be nonreimbursable and the Secretary is authorized to dispose of the acquired lands or interests therein together with the rights to any water therefor on terms and conditions satisfactory to him, and the proceeds therefrom shall be deposited in the General Fund of the Treasury. |
