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Show 82 INTERSTATE COMPACTS "(3) The reconstruction or relocation of public service utilities, including railroads and the alteration of bridges and structures thereon, whether publicly or privately owned; "(4) The reconstruction or relocation of telegraph, telephone, or electric light or power distribution and transmission lines, pipe lines, aqueducts, water or gas mains; and "(5) Any other damages, expenses, or costs that may be necessi- tated or incurred in procuring and providing the sites necessary for the construction of the reservoirs herein contemplated, including the cost and expense of acquiring such lands, easements, and rights-of -way and procuring the reconstruction or relocation of the highways, bridges, railroads, telephone, telegraph, a'nd electric lines, pipes, aque- ducts, and mains above mentioned, or the rights-of-wTay for the same, or any other similar expenditures. "article viii "The rights to be acquired and exercised by the Commission are solely for flood-control purposes, and each of the respective signa- tory States wherein any reservoir may be situated, reserves respec- tively unto itself, all benefit or advantage of water conservation, power storage, or power development that may be inherent in such reservoir site. "In the event any signatory State may wish to preserve to itself the value of such site for the purposes aforesaid, it may, through an appropriate agency of the State, so notify the United States, through its War Department, before any construction work is com- menced hereunder for flood-control purposes, so that the design and construction of the dam at such site may be developed in such manner as to provide for further development as a storage reservoir for the conservation of water, enhancement of stream flow, or power development. "Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall be deemed to prevent any such State, at its option, at any time hereafter, by itself or through such agency as it may designate, from developing any such reservoir or reservoirs for use for water conservation, power storage, or power development, in order that it may 'avail itself of the full beneficial use and enjoyment of the rights herein reserved. In such event, such State shall pay or provide for the payment of all costs or expenses necessary for such further development, including adaptation of any existing dam and works to such purpose, in accordance with plans approved by the Secretary of War, and at all times fully preserve the nrimary purposes of flood control. "The terms and conditions under which any signatory State shall make available the rights of water conservation, power storage, or power development herein reserved shall be determined by separate agreement or arrangement between such State and the United States: and the type and general plans for the construction of such of the reservoirs as are herein contemplated to provide for such further development shall be 'approved by some agency of such State, for that purpose duly authorized, before any construction thereon is begun or prosecuted. |
