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PUBLIC LAW 1 7 2 - J U L Y 31, 1953

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STAT.

CONSTRUCTION A N D REHABILITATION

Limitations.

53 Stat. 1192. 43 USC 485f.

Restrictions.

For construction and rehabilitation of authorized reclamation projects or parts thereof (including power transmission facilities) and for other related activities, as authorized by law, to remain available until expended, $116,269,660, of which $52,509,206 shall be derived from the reclamation fund: Provided, That not to exceed $268,000 shall be available toward the emergency rehabilitation of the Dalton Gardens Irrigation Project, Idaho, to be repaid in full under conditions satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior: Provided further, That not to exceed $222,000 shall be available toward the emergency rehabilitation of the Avondale Irrigation Project, Idaho, to be repaid in full under conditions satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior: Provided further, That the Bureau of Keclamation is authorized to expend not to exceed $300,000 for emergency flood protective work and minor completion work on the irrigation system of the Buford-Trenton Project of which the portion thereof found by the Secretary to be properly allocable to irrigation pursuant to allocations to be made under section 7(b) of the Keclamation Project Act of 1939 shall be repaid under terms satisfactory to the Secretary and to the water users: Provided further, That not to exceed $1,000,000 of the amount appropriated herein for the Missouri Eiver Basin Project shall be nonreimbursable representing that portion of the cost of Pactola Dam allocated to furnishing a water supply for Ellsworth Air Force Base: Provided further.. That no part of this appropriation shall be available for other than the completion of field engineering, survey work, and preliminary designs of the Southwest Contra Costa County Water District System and no repayment contract shall be executed or construction begun until plans have been submitted to and approved by the Congress through its legislative and appropriation procedures, after submission of a report to the Congress by the Secretary of the Interior (1) on the cost and feasibility 01 said project, including the necessary distribution system and (2) on the rates required to be charged to the ultimate consumers: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to initiate the construction of transmission facilities within those areas covered by power wheeling service contracts which include provision for service to Federal establishments and preferred customers, except those transmission facilities for which construction funds have been heretofore appropriated, those facilities which are necessary to carry out the terms of such contracts or those facilities for which the Secretary of the Interior finds the wheeling agency is unable or unwilling to provide for the integration of Federal projects or for service to a Federal establishment or preferred customer: Provided further, That in order to promote agreement among the States of Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado, and to avoid any possible alteration of existing vested water rights, no part of this or of any prior appropriation shall be used for construction or for further commitment for construction of the Glendo unit or any feature thereof, until a definite plan report thereon has been completed, reviewed by the States of Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado, and approved by Congress: Provided further, That no part of this or any other appropriation shall be available for the initiation of construction under the terms of reclamation law of any dam or reservoir or water supply, or any tunnel, canal or conduit for water, or water distribution system related to such dam or reservoir until the Secretary shall certify to the Congress that an adequate soil survey and land classification has been made and that the lands to be irrigated are susceptible to the production of agricultural crops by means of irrigation or that the successful

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