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Show The letter of transmittal and its attachments shall be printed as a House or Senate document. SEC. 209. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as are required to carry out the purposes of this title. TITLE III - AUTHORIZED UNITS: PROTECTION OF EXISTING USES SEC. 301. The Secretary shall construct, operate, and maintain the lower basin units of the Colorado River Basin project (hereinafter referred to as the "project"), described in sections 302, 303, 304, 305, and 306. SEC. 302. The main stream reservoir division shall consist of the Hualapai (formerly known as Bridge Canyon) and Marble Canyon units, including dams, reservoirs, powerplants, transmission facilities, and appurtenant works, and the Coconino and Paria River silt-detention reservoirs: Provided, That (1) Hualapai Dam shall be constructed so as to impound water at a normal surface elevation of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six feet above mean sea level, (2) fluctuations in the reservoir level shall be restricted, so far as practicable, to a regimen of ten feet, (3) Marble Canyon Dam shall be constructed so as to impound water at a normal surface elevation of three thousand one hundred and forty feet above mean sea level, and (4) this Act shall not be construed to authorize any diversion of water from either Hualapai or Marble Canyon Reservoirs except for incidental uses in the immediate vicinity. The Congress hereby declares that the construction of the Hualapai Dam herein authorized is consistent with the Act of February 26, 1919 (40 Stat. 1175). SEC. 303. (a) From funds appropriated from the General Treasury of the United States to the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, for the project, there shall be transferred in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Hualapai Tribe of Arizona the sum of $16,398,000, which shall draw interest on the principal at the rate of 4 per centum per annum until expended, as payment of just compensation for the taking by the United States of such easements, rights-of-way, and other interests in land within the Hualapai Indian Reservation, consisting of not more than twenty-five thousand acres, as the Secretary shall designate are necessary for the construction, operation, and maintenance of the Hualapai unit. The designation by the Secretary shall constitute a taking by the United States of the lands or interests therein so designated. The funds so paid may be expended, invested, or reinvested pursuant to plans, programs, and agreements duly adopted or entered into by the Hualapai Tribe, subject to the approval of the Secretary in accordance with the tribal constitution and charter. (b) As part of the construction and operation of the Hualapai unit, the Secretary shall (1) construct a paved road, having a minimum width of twenty-eight feet, from Peach Springs, Arizona, through and along Peach Springs Canyon within the Hualapai Indian Reservation, to provide all-weather access to the Hualapai Reservoir; and (2) make available to the Hualapai Tribe up to twenty-five thousand kilowatts and up to one hundred million kilowatt-hours annually of power from the Hualapai unit at the lowest rate established by the Secretary for the sale of firm power from said unit for the use of perferential customers: Provided, That the tribe may resell such power only to users within the Hualapai Reservation: Provided further, That the Hualapai Tribal Council shall notify the Secretary in writing of the reasonable power requirements of the tribe up to the maximum herein specified, for each three-year period in advance beginning with the date upon which power from the Hualapai unit becomes available for sale. Power not so reserved may be disposed of by the Secretary for the benefit of the development fund. (c) Except as to such lands which the Secretary determines are required for the Hualapai Dam and Reservoir site and the construction and operating campsite and townsite, all minerals of any kind whatsoever, including oil and gas but excluding sand and gravel and other building and construction materials, within the acreas acquired by the United States pursuant to this section are hereby reserved to the Hualapai Tribe: Provided, That no permit, license, lease or other document covering the exploration for or the extraction of such minerals shall be granted by the tribe nor shall the tribe conduct 51 |
