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 PUBLIC LAW 94-423—SEPT. 28, 1976 balance of the reimbursable obligations assumed by non-Federal entities shall be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, as of the beginning of the fiscal year in which construction is initiated, on the basis of the computed average interest rate payable by the Treasury upon its outstanding marketable public obligations which are neither due nor callable for redemption from fifteen years from the date of issue. SEC. 207. The provisions of the third sentence of section 46 of the Act of May 25, 1926 (44 Stat. 649, 650), and any other similar provisions of Federal reclamation laws as applied to the OrovilleTonasket unit, are hereby modified to provide that lands held in a single ownership which may be eligible to receive water from, through, or by means of unit works shall be limited to one hundred and sixty acres of class I land or the equivalent thereof in other land classes as determined by the Secretary of the Interior. SEC. 208. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for construction of the works and measures authorized by this title for the fiscal year 1978 and thereafter the sum of $39,370,000 (January 1976 prices), plus or minus such amounts, if any, as may be required by reason of changes in the cost of construction work of the types involved therein as shown by engineering cost indexes. There are also authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be required for the operation and maintenance of the project.

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Lands eligible to receive water, limitation. 43 USC 423e.

TITLE III ITIKTAH U N r r,

UTAH

SEC. 301. Pursuant to the authorization for construction, operation, and maintenance of the Uintah unit, central Utah project, Utah, as provided in section 1 of the Act of April 11, 1956 (70 Stat. 105), as 43 USC 620. amended by section 501(a) of the Colorado River Basin Project Act (82 Stat. 897), there is authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 43 USC 620, 620 1978 and thereafter, for the construction of said Uintah unit, the sum note, 620a, 620k of $90,247,000 (based on January 1976 price levels) plus or minus such note. amounts, if any, as may be required by reason of changes in construction costs as indicated by engineering cost indexes applicable to the type of construction involved. SEC. 302. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, lands held in Single ownership a single ownership which may be eligible to receive water from, lands, limitation. through, or by means of the Uintah works shall be limited to one hundred and sixty acres of class I land or the equivalent thereof in other land classes, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior.

TITLE IV AMERICAN CANAL EXTENSION, EL PASO, TEXAS

SEC. 401. The Secretary of the Interior, acting pursuant to the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902; 32 Stat. 388, and Acts 43 USC 391 note, amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto), in order to salvage water losses, eliminate hazards to public safety, and to facilitate compliance with the convention between the United States and Mexico concluded May 21, 1906, providing for the equitable division of the waters of the Rio Grande, is authorized as a part of the Rio Grande project. New Mexico-Texas, to construct, operate, and maintain, wholly within the United States, extensions of the American Canal approximately thirteen miles in total length, commencing in the vicinity of

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