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Show 54 DIXIE PROJECT, UTAH irrigation, or provision shall be made to indemnify such water users for any impairment of water quality for irrigation purposes directly attributable to Dixie project operations. SEC. 3. In constructing, operating, and maintaining the works authorized by this Act, the Secretary shall be governed by the Federal reclamation laws ( Act of June 17, 1902 ( 32 Stat. 388), and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto), except as is otherwise provided in this Act. SEC. 4. Construction of the project shall not be commenced until there shall be established a conservancy district or similar organization with such powers as may be required by the Secretary, these to include powers to tax both real and personal property within the boundary of the district and to enter into contracts with the United States for the repayment of reimbursable costs. SEC. 5. The interest rate to be used for purposes of computing interest during construction and interest on the unpaid balance of those portions of the reimbursable costs which are properly allocable to commercial power development and municipal and industrial water supply shall be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, as of the beginning of the fiscal year in which this bill is enacted, on the basis of the computed average interest rate payable by the Treasury upon its outstanding marketable public obligations, which are neither due nor callable for redemption for fifteen years from date of issue. If the interest rate • so computed is not a multiple of one- eighth of 1 per centum, the rate of interest to be used for these purposes shall be the multiple of one- eighth of 1 per centum next lower than the rate so computed. The portions of the costs which are allocable to commercial power development and to municipal and industrial water supply shall be repaid over a period of fifty years with interest at the rate determined in accordance with this section. The portion of the costs which is properly allocable to irrigation and which is beyond the water users' ability to repay in fifty years plus a ten- year development period shall be returned to the reclamation fund within such period from revenues derived by the Secretary • of the Interior from the disposition of power marketed from Federal projects in the Lower Colorado River Basin. SEC. 6. ( a) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized as a part of the Dixie project to construct, operate, and maintain public recreation facilities including access roads, to acquire or to withdraw from entry or other disposition under the public land laws such adjacent lands or interests therein as are necessary for present and future public recreation use, and to provide for public use and enjoyment of the same and of the water areas of the project in a manner consistent with the other project purposes. The Secretary is authorized to enter into agreements with State or local public agencies or other public entities for the operation, maintenance, or additional development of project lands or facilities or to dispose of project lands or facilities to State or local agencies or other public entities by lease, transfer, exchange, or conveyance, upon such terms and conditions as will best promote their development and operation in the public interest for recreation purposes. The costs of the undertakings described in this • section, including costs of investigation, planning, operation, and maintenance and an appropriate share of the joint costs of the Dixie project, shall be nonreimbursable. ( b) The Secretary may make such reasonable provision in connection with the Dixie project as, upon further study in accordance with section 2 of the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act ( 48 Stat. 401, as amended; 16 U. S. C. 661, 662), he finds to be required for the conservation and development of fish and wildlife. An appropriate portion of the cost of the development shall be allocated as provided in said Act and it, together with the Federal operation and maintenance costs allocated to this function, shall be nonreimbursable and non- returnable under the reclamation laws. SEC. 7. The use of all water diverted for this project from the Colorado River - system shall be subject to and controlled by the Colorado River compact, the Boulder Canyon Project Act ( 45 Stat. 1057; 43 U. S. C. 617t), and the Mexican . Water Treaty ( Treaty Series 994) ( 59 Stat. ,1219>.= SEC. 8. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be required to carry out th( purposes of this Act. |
