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PUBLIC LAW 89-292-OCT. 22, 1965

[79 STAT.

Public Law 89-292 October 22, 1965 [S. 32]

Southern Nevada water project.

43 USC 371 note.

Project c o s t s, allocations.

16 USC 460^-12 note. Repayment; int e r e s t rate.

43 USC 390b note.

Contract.

construction, commencement.

53 Stat. 1194. 43 USC 4B5h, Transfer of operation, e t c.

AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the southern Nevada water project, Nevada, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain the southern Nevada w'ater project, Nevada, in accordance with the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902; 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto), except as those laws are inconsistent with this Act, for the principal purpose of delivering water for municipal and industrial use. The principal features of the southern Nevada water project shall consist of intake facilities, pumping plants, aqueduct and laterals, transmission lines, substations, and storage and regulatory facilities required to provide water from Lake Mead on the Colorado Eiver for distribution to municipalities and industrial centers within Clark County, Nevada. SEC. 2. (a) The Secretary shall make appropriate allocations of project costs to municipal and industrial water supply and, if appropriate, to fish and wildlife and recreation: Provided, l l i a t all operation and maintenance costs for the southern Nevada water project shall be allocated to municipal and industrial water supply. Construction costs of the Eiver Mountains dam and reservoir allocated to fish and wildlife and recreation shall be nonreimbursable in accordance with the Federal Water Project Recreation Act (79 Stat. 213). (b) Allocations of project costs made to municipal and industrial water supply shall be repayable to the United States in not more than fifty years under either the provisions of the Federal reclamation laws or under the provisions of Water Supply Act of 1958 (title III of Public Law 85-500, 72 Stat. 319 and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto): Provided, That, in either case, repayment of costs allocated to municipal and industrial water supply shall include interest on the unamortized balance of such allocations at a rate equal to the average rate (which rate shall be certified by the Secretary of the Treasury) paid by the United States on its marketable long-term securities outstanding on the date of this Act and adjusted to the nearest one-eighth of 1 per centum. SEC. 3. (a) The Secretary is authorized to enter into a contract with the State of Nevada, acting through the Colorado River Commission of Nevada or other duly authorized State agency, for the delivery of water and for repayment of the reimbursable construction costs. (b) Construction of the project shall not be commenced until a suitable contract has been executed by the Secretary and the Colorado River Commission or other duly authorized State agency. (c) Such contract may be entered into without regard to the last sentence of section 9, subsection (c), of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939. (d) Upon execution of the contract referred to in section 3(a) above, and upon completion of construction of the project, the Secretary shall transfer to said Colorado River Commission of Nevada or other duly authorized State agency the care, operation, and maintenance of the intake, pumping plants, aqueducts, reservoirs, and related features of the southern Nevada water project upon the terms and conditions set out in the said contract. (e) When all of the costs allocable to reimbursable purposes incurred by the United States on constructing, operating, and maintaining the project, together with appropriate interest charges, have been returned to the United States by the State of Nevada, said State

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