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 68 S T A T. ]

PUBLIC LAW 7 8 0 - S E P T. 3, 1954

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BRAZOS RIVER BASIN, TEXAS

The plan for flood protection and other purposes on the Brazos River and tributaries, Oyster Creek and Jones Creek, Texas, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 535, Eightyfirst Congress, and there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $40,000,000 for partial accomplishment of that plan. The project for the Belton Reservoir, Leon River, Texas, authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1946, is hereby modified to provide fpr the reservation, without reimbursement, of twelve thousand acre-feet of conservation storage to be used as a permanent source of water supply for Fort Hood and adjacent military installations.

Appropriation,

GUADALUPE AND SAN ANTONIO RIVERS, TEXAS

The project for flood protection on the Guadalupe and San Antonio Rivers, Texas, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 344, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $30,254,000. GUADALUPE RIVER, TEXAS

The works of improvement on Guadalupe River, Texas, authorized by section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes", approved March 2, 1945 (59 Stat. 17), insofar as such authorization provides for construction of the Canyon Dam and Reservoir, is hereby modified to provide for the construction, operation, and maintenance under the direction of the Secretary of the Army and supervision of the Chief of Engineers of the Canyon Dam and Reservoir in accordance with the provisions of this Act. The Canyon Dam and Reservoir shall be constructed with a gross reservoir capacity of approximately seven hundred and fifty thousand acrefeet (of which three hundred and eighty thousand acre-feet shall be for flood control and sedimentation) for purposes of flood control, conservation, stream-flow regulation, and provision for sedimentation, and, if practicable, for purposes of development of electric power, at an estimated total cost of $13,300,000. The Chief of Engineers, in consultation with the Federal Power Commission, shall at appropriate times allocate to local interests such of the costs of construction, operation, and maintenance of the Canyon Dam and Reservoir as may appropriately be allocated to water conservation, stream-flow regulation, and development of electric power. Such allocation shall be made in accordance with the separable costsremaining benefits method, taking into account the net increase in regulated flow which is practical with the storage capacity which will be provided by the Canyon Dam and Reservoir for water conservation and stream-flow regulation. No allocation of costs with respect to any installation for development of electric power shall be made under this section unless the Chief of Engineers determines that such installation will actually be constructed. The costs allocated to local interests under this section shall be not less than $1,400,000, and shall be paid by them to the Chief of Engineers as provided in this Act. The portion of such costs determined by the Chief of Engineers to be allocable to operation and maintenance of Canyon Dam and Reservoir shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation available for maintenance and operation of such dam and used by the Chief of Engineers for such operation and maintenance; the $1,400,000 to be contributed during the construction period

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