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PUBLIC LAW 85-900-SEPT. 2, 1958

retary is authorized to deliver, at the Boulder City substation, at rates determined on the basis of (a) the Adjustment Act and (b) any other costs incurred in connection with such delivery, up to P maximum demand of seventeen thousand kilowatts to the munici pality for its own use or for resale for use within the Boulder Citj municipal area less such capacity as is required by the United States for pumping water delivered to the municipality pursuant to section 9 of this Act: Provided, That should the present electrical energy requirements of the Bureau of Mines in Boulder City be substantially curtailed or discontinued, the maximum demand for the use of the municipality may be increased at the discretion of the Secretary up to nineteen thousand five hundred kilowatts less such capacity as is required by the United States for pumping water delivered to the municipality pursuant to section 9 of this Act: Provided further. That the electrical energy delivered hereunder to the municipality in any one year shall not exceed eighty million kilowatthours, less such energy as is required by the United States for pumping water delivered to the municipality pursuant to section 9 of this Act, and that this amount shall be reduced in any year in which there is a deficiency in electrical energy available from the Boulder Canyon project in the same proportion as firm energy delivered to allottees is reduced in such year below firm energy as defined in said general regulations. SEC. 9. (a) Because of its climate and its location with respect to the only source of water, Boulder City faces extraordinary difficulties in connection with a domestic water supply. In recognition of this fact, the existing water supply system from Hoover Dam to, but not including, the Boulder City storage tanks shall be retained by the United States and shall be operated and maintained by the Secretary in order to supply water to the municipality at said storage tanks, for domestic, industrial, and municipal purposes, at a maximum rate of delivery of three thousand six hundred and fifty gallons a minute: Provided, That the cost of supplying such water, to the extent of not more than $150,000 in any one year, shall be borne as provided in subsection (c) of this section: Provided further, That the municipality shall assume (i) all additional costs of supplying water under this section and (ii) all costs of filtration and treatment of water supplied under this section. There shall be no charge under the contract between the United States and the State of Nevada dated March 30, 1942, as amended, for water delivered in accordance with this section. Such delivery shall be subject to the availability of water for use in the State of Nevada under the provisions of the Colorado River compact and the Project Act and, except as hereinabove provided with respect to the charge for water, shall be in accordance with the terms of the aforesaid contract. (b) As of the end of each year of project operation, or fraction thereof, after incorporation of the municipality, the Secretary shall determine the number of all persons employed in the construction, operation, and maintenance of the project and the number of all persons employed by the United States for purposes other than the construction, operation, and maintenance of the project. (c) The Secretary shall divide the cost for each year of project operation, or fraction thereof, after the incorporation of the municipality, of supplying water under subsection (a) of this section into two parts. The first such part shall bear the same ratio to the second such part as the number of all persons employed in the construction, operation, and maintenance of the project, as determined by the Secretary under subsection (b) of this section, bears to the number of all persons employed by the United States for purposes other than

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