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 104 STAT. 3324 PUBLIC LAW 101-618—NOV. 16, 1990 water for the operation of such project works shall be consistent with the Preliminary Settlement Agreement as modified by the Ratification Agreement, and the Operating Agreement. The Secretary shall take into account the monetary value of this provision to the Sierra Pacific Power Company in calculating the storage charge referred to in paragraph 205(a)(6). Public lands. (18) The Secretary is authorized, in accordance with this section and applicable provisions of existing law, to exchange surveyed public lands in Nevada for interests in fee patented lands, water rights, or surface rights to lands within or contiguous to the exterior boundaries of the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation. The values of the lands or interests therein exchanged by the Secretary under this paragraph shall be substantially equal, but the Secretary is authorized to accept monetary payments from the owners of such fee patented lands, water rights, or surface rights as circumstances may require in order to compensate for any difference in value. Any such payments shall be deposited to the Treasury. The value of improvements on land to be exchanged shall be given due consideration and an appropriate allowance shall be made therefor in the valuation. Title to lands or any interest therein acquired by the Secretary pursuant to this subsection shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the Pyramid Lake Tribe and shall be added to the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation. (c) APPROPRIATIONS AUTHORIZED.—There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be required to implement the provisions of this title. Approved November 16, 1990. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—S. 3084: SENATE REPORTS: No. 101-555 (Select Comm. on Indian Affairs). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 136 (1990): Oct. 26, considered and passed Senate. Oct. 27, considered and passed House.

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