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 106 STAT. 58 PUBLIC LAW 102-250—MAR. 5, 1992 in the region and the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration. 43 USC 2225. SEC. 205. RECLAMATION DROUGHT RESPONSE FUND. The Secretary shall undertake a study of the need, if any, to establish a Reclamation Drought Response Fund to be available for defraying those expenses which the Secretary determines necessary to implement plans prepared under section 202 and to make loans for nonstructxoral and minor structxiral activities for the prevention or mitigation of the adverse effects of drought. 43 USC 2226. SEC. 206. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND TRANSFER OF PRECIPITA- TION MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY. (a) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE. — The Secretary is authorized to provide technical assistance for drought contingency planning in any of the States not identified in section 1 of the Reclamation Act (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388), and the District of Coliunbia, Puerto Rico, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and upon termination of the Trusteeship, the Republic of Palau, the United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. 0^) TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER PROGRAM.— The Secretary is authorized to conduct a Precipitation Management Technology Transfer Program to help alleviate problems caused by precipitation variability and droughts in the West, as part of a balanced long-term water resources development and management program. In consultation with State, tribal, and local water, hydropower, water quality and instream flow interests, areas shall be selected for conducting field studies cost-shared on a 50-50 basis to validate and qu^tify the potential for appropriate precipitation management techjiology to augment stream flows. Validated technologies shall be Wansferred to non-Federal interests for operational implementation. TITLE III—GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 43 USC 2241. SEC. 301. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. Except as otherwise provided in section 303 of this Act (relating to temperature control devices at Shasta Dam, California), there ' is authorized to be appropriated not more than $90,000,000 in total for fiscal years 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1996. 43 USC 2242. SEC. 302. AUTHORITY OF SECRETARY. The Secretary is authorized to perform any and all acts and to promulgate such regulations as may be necessary and appropriate for the purpose of implementing this Act. In carrying out the authorities under this Act, the Secretary shall give specific consideration to the needs of fish and wildlife, together with other project purposes, and shall consider temporary operational changes which will mitigate, or can be expected to have an effect in mitigating, fish and wildlife losses and damages resulting from drought conditions, consistent with the Secretary's other obligations. California. SEC. 303. TEMPERATURE CONTROL AT SHASTA DAM, CENTRAL VAL- 43 USC 2243. LEY PROJECT. The Secretary is authorized to complete the design and specifications for construction of a device to control the temperature of

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