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PUBLIC LAW 87-591-AUG. 16, 1962

(e) In the operation and maintenance of all facilities under the jurisdiction and supervision of the Secretary of the Interior authorized by this Act, the Secretary of the Interior is directed to comply with the applicable provisions of the Colorado River compact, the Upper Colorado River Basin compact, the Boulder Canyon Project Act, the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act, the Colorado River Storage Project Act (and any contract lawfully entered into by the United States under any of said Acts), the treaty with the United Mexican States, and the operating principles, and to comply with the laws of the State of Colorado relating to the control, appropriation, use, and distribution of water therein. In the event of the failure of the Secretary of the Interior to so comply, any State of the Colorado River Basin may maintain an action in the Supreme Court of the United States to enforce the provisions of this section and consent is given to the joinder of the United States as a party in such suit or suits, as a defendant or otherwise. SEC. 6. The Secretary of the Interior is directed to continue his studies of the quality of water of the Colorado River system, to appraise its suitability for municipal, domestic, and industrial use and for irrigation in the various areas in the United States in which it is used or proposed to be used, to estimate the effect of additional developments involving its storage and use (whether heretofore authorized or contemplated for authorization) on the remaining water available for use in the United States, to study all possible means of improving the quality of such water and of alleviating the ill effects thereof, and to report the results of his studies and estimates to the Congress on January 3, 1963, and every two years thereafter, the expense of said studies to be no part of the financial obligation of the FryingpanArkansas project. SEC. 7. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for construction of the Fryingpan-Arkansas project, the sum of $170,000,000 (June 1961 prices), plus or minus such amounts, if anyj as may be justified by reason of ordinary fluctuations in construction costs as indicated by engineering cost indexes applicable to the types of construction involved herein. There are also authorized to be appropriated such additional sums as may be required for operation and maintenance of the project and for future costs incurred under section 4 of this Act. Approved August 16, 1962, 9:45 a. m.

Report to Congress.

Appropriation.

Public Law 87-591 AN ACT To amend chapter 31 of title 38, United States Code, to afford additional time during which certain veterans blinded by reason of a service-connected disability may be afforded vocational rehabilitation training.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That chapter 31 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding after section 1502 the following new section: "§ 1502A. Blinded veterans "A veteran who is found to be in need of vocational rehabilitation to overcome the handicap of blindness resulting from a service-connected disability which affords basic eligibility for vocational rehabilitation under section 1502(a) of this title may be afforded such vocational rehabilitation after the termination date otherwise applicable to him, but not beyond June 30, 1975, if—

August 16, 1962 [S. 2869]

Blinded veterans. Vocational rehabilitation, 72 Stat. 1171. 38 USC 15011510.

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