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Administration.

PUBLIC LAW 90-272-MAR. 22, 1968

[82 STAT.

and such description shall have the same force and effect as if Included in this Act: Provided, however, That correction of clerical and typographical errors in such legal description and map may be made. SEC. 3. The San Kafael Wilderness shall be admmistered by the Secretary of Agriculture in accordance with the provisions of the Wilderness Act governing areas designated b^ that Act as wilderness areas, except that any reference in such provisions to the effective date of the Wilderness Act shall be deemed to be a reference to the effective date of this Act. Approved March 21, 1968. Public Law 90-272

March 22, 1968 [ S. J. R e s. 123]

43 USC 615SS.

JOINT RESOLUTION To approve long-term contracts for delivery of water from Navajo Reservoir in the State of New Mexico, and for other purposes.

Whereas section 11(a) of the Act of June 13, 1962 (76 Stat. 96; Public Law 87-483), provides that: "No long-term contract, except contracts for the benefit of the lands and for the purposes specified in sections 2 (Navajo Indian irrigation project) and 8 (San JuanChama project) of this Act, shall be entered into for the delivery of water stored in Navajo Reservoir or of any other waters of the San J u a n River and its tributaries, as aforesaid, until the Secretary has determined by hydrologic investigation that sufficient water to fulfill said contract is reasonably likely to be available for use in the State of New Mexico during the term thereof under the allocations made in articles III and X IV of the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact, and has submitted such determination to the Congress of the United States and the Congress has approved such contracts."; and Whereas the Secretary has made such determination in coimection with the following contracts transmitted to Congress by letter dated November 21, 1967: Estimated Water water diversion depletion (acre-feet) (acre-feet)

Proposed uses

Public Service Company of New MexicoSouthern Union Gas Company Utah Construction and Mining Company

50 44,000

16,200 Thermalelectric generation. 50 Pump cooling. 35,300 Thermalelectric generation.

64,250

Water contracts, approval.

20,200

51, 550

Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That such contracts are hereby approved by the C o n f e s s. The Secretary may enter into amendments thereto which would m his judgment be in the interest of water conservation, but the total water depletion shall not exceed the estimates set forth in this joint resolution. Approved March 22, 1968.

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