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 81 STAT.]

PUBLIC LAW 9 0 - 1 4 7 - N O V. 20, 1967

475

GENERAL INVESTIGATIONS

For engineering and economic investigations of proposed Federal reclamation projects and studies of water conservation and development plans and activities preliminary to the reconstruction, rehabilitation and betterment, financial adjustment, or extension of existing projects, including not to exceed $450,000 for investigations of projects m Alaska, to remain available until expended, $16,523,000, of which $13,058,000 shall be derived from the reclamation fund and $500,000 shall be derived from the Colorado River development fund: PTOvided^ That none of this appropriation shall be used for more than one-half of the cost of an investigation requested by a State, municipality, or other interest: Provided further, That $400,000 of this appropriation shall be transferred to the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife for studies, investigations, and reports thereon as required by the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act of 1958 (72 Stat. 563-565) to provide that wildlife conservation shall receive equal consideration and be coordinated with other features of water-resource development programs of the Bureau of Reclamation. CONSTRUCTION AND REHABILITATION

For construction and rehabilitation of authorized reclamation projects or parts thereof (including power transmission facilities) and for other related activities, as authorized by law, to remain available until expended, $181,868,000, of which $100,000,000 shall be derived from the reclamation fund: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to initiate the construction of transmission facilities within those areas covered by power wheeling service contracts which include provision for service to Federal establishments and preferred customers, except those transmission facilities for which construction funds have been heretofore appropriated, those facilities which are necessary to carry out the terms of such contracts or those facilities for which the Secretary of the Interior finds the wheeling agency is unable or unwilling to provide for the integration of Federal projects or for service to a Federal establishment or preferred customer: Provided further, That the final point of discharge for the interceptor drain for the San Luis unit shall not be determined until (1) completion of a pollution study by the Department of the Interior, (2) development of a plan to minimize any detrimental effect of the San Luis drainage waters on San Francisco Bay, and (3) agreement is reached by the Secretary with the State of California, subject to the approval of the President, limiting the Federal share of the costs of the drain to Antioch to not more than 60 per centum thereof, and if found necessary to extend the drain beyond Antioch, the Federal share of such extension shall be determined on the basis of an equitable apportionment of the additional costs between the Federal Government and the non-Federal entities who are to use the facilities: Provided further, That no funds shall be made available under this appropriation for the construction in Contra Costa County, California, of any portion of the interceptor drain in connection with the San Luis unit which terminates at any point east of Port Chicago except for piers and abutments at a crossing site of the drain over the intake channel of the pumping plant for the California aqueduct: Provided further, That the costs allocated to flood control on the Wellton-Mohawk Division, Gila Project, Arizona, shall be nonreimbursable and the subject repayment contracts shall be amended accordingly: Provided further. That not to exceed $1,000,000 of this appropriation shall be available for replacement of cast-in-place concrete pipe in the South Gila Unit,

16 USC 661 note.

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