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SEC. 3. (a) The operation of the dam and other facilities herein provided shall be by the Secretary of the Interior, under regulations satisfactory to the Secretary of the Navy with respect to the Navy's share of the impounded water and national security. In that operation, 60 per centum of the water impounded by De Luz Dam is hereby allotted to the Secretary of the Navy; 40 per centum of the water impounded by De Luz Dam is hereby allotted to the Fallbrook Public Utility District. The Department of the Navy and the Fallbrook Public Utility District will participate in the water impounded by De Luz Dam on the basis of equal priority and in accordance with the ratio prescribed in the preceding sentence: Providedy however, That at any time the Secretary of the Navy certifies that he does not have immediate need for any portion of the aforesaid 60 per centum of the water, the official agreed upon to administer the dam and facilities is empowered to enter into temporary contracts for the delivery of water subject, however, to the first right of the Secretary of the Navy to demand that water without charge and without obligation on the part of the United States of America upon thirty days' notice as set forth in any such contract with the approval of the Secretary of the Navy: Provided, further, That all moneys paid in to the United States of America under any such contract shall be covered into the general fund of the Treasury, and shall not be applied against the indebtedness of the Fallbrook Public Utility District to the United States of America. In making any such temporary contracts for water not immediately needed by the Navy, the first right thereto, if otherwise consistent with the laws of the State of California, shall be given the Fallbrook Public Utility District. (b) The general repayment obligation of the Fallbrook Public Utility District (which shall include interest on the unamortized balance of construction costs of the project allocated to municipal and domestic waters at a rate equal to the average rate, which rate shall be certified by the Secretary of the Treasury, on the long-term loans of the United States outstanding on the date of this Act) to be undertaken pursuant to section 1 of this Act shall be spread in annual installments, which need not be equal, over a period of not more than fifty-six years, exclusive of a development period, or as near thereto as is consistent with the operation of a formula, mutually agreeable to the parties, under which the payments are varied in the light of factors pertinent to the irrigators' ability to pay. The development period shall begin in the year in which water for use by the district is first available, as announced by the Secretary, and shall end in the year in which the conservation storage space in De Luz Eeservoir first fills but shall, in no event, exceed seventeen years. During the development period water shall be delivered to the district under annual water rental notices at rates fixed by the Secretary and payable in advance, and any moneys collected in excess of operation and maintenance costs shall be credited to repayment of the capital costs chargeable to the district and the repayment period fixed herein shall be reduced proportionately. The Secretary may transfer to the district the care, operation, and maintenance of the facilities constructed by him under conditions satisfactory to him and to the district and, with respect to such of the facilities as are located within the boundaries of Camp Pendleton, satisfactory also to the Secretary of the Navy. (c) For the purposes of this Act the basis, measure, and limit of all rights of the United States of America pertaining to the use of water shall be the laws of the State of California: Provided, That nothing in this Act shall be construed as a grant or a relinquishment by the United States of America of any of its rights to the use of water which it acquired according to the laws of the State of California

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D a m operation, etc.

Water allotment.

Temporary tracts.

Repayment obligation.

U. S. rights under California law.

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