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 104 STAT. 4484 PUBLIC LAW 101-628—NOV. 28, 1990 CAP rights acquired by the Secretary and the total CAP allocation of the HVID; and (ii) to offset the annual repayment requirements of the CAWCD under repayment contract numbered 14-06-W -245 in amounts which total the balance of the fair value of the water acquired and not accounted for under (i) above until such value is exhausted. (3) In the event that the Secretary acquires all or a part of the CAP water rights of the HVID, the following shall apply: (i) The Secretary is authorized to transfer title to existing Federal facilities within HVID that are no longer needed for CAP purposes to the CAWCD or to other non-Federal entities. (ii) The Secretary is authorized to approve or execute any agreements that are necessary to accomplish the transfer of HVID's CAP agricultural water rights to the Secretary for Indian water rights settlement purposes. As a condition of the transfer of such entitlement, the lands which are purchased by non-Federal interests within HVID must be excluded from HVID. Except as provided for in Article 8.7 of the December 1, 1988, contract between the United States and CAWCD, the excluded lands shall not be entitled to a supply of CAP water for agricultural purposes and shall not be subject to the ownership limitations of Federal reclamation law and all full cost pricing provisions of Federal law. (iii) The agreement implementing the transfer of HVID's CAP agricultural water rights to the Secretary shall provide that any lands which remain in HVID or its successor shall continue to be subject to the ownership limitations of Federal reclamation law and all full cost pricing provisions of Federal law as long as HVID, or its successor, has a Federal repayment obligation for the cost of the CAP distribution system. The agreement implementing the transfer shall provide that lands remaining in HVID, or its successor, will not bear costs of operation, maintenance, and replacement for the CAP distribution system greater than that which they would have in the absence of the transfer of HVID's CAP agricultural water rights. (4) Water acquired by the Secretary for the Fort McDowell Indian Community pursuant to this subsection shall be delivered to the Community as provided for in the Agreement. Any remaining water acquired by the Secretary pursuant to this subsection (b) shall be used only in the settlement of water rights claims of other Indian tribes having claims to the water in the Salt and Verde River system. VERDE RIVER WATERSHED (c) Providing that the Secretary first acquires at least seven thousand acre-feet of CAP water from one or more of the entities named in subsection (a)(2), of this section, the Secretary is authorized to acquire, by purchase from willing sellers, land and water rights in the Big Chino Valley of the Verde River watershed, in an amount sufficient to replace all such water so acquired. (1) The Secretary shall not acquire any land or water rights in the Big Chino Valley of the Verde River watershed until he has completed a study to determine whether, through the construe-

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