Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 94 Part 3.djvu/582

 94 STAT. 3226

Management.

PUBLIC LAW 96-550—DEC. 19, 1980

(e) The plan shall prescribe specific research and management objectives necessary for the protection, management, and regulation of the research site as outlined in subsection (f) of this section. (f) The research site shall be managed in accordance with the following objectives: (1) The principal research facility shall be managed primarily for scientific research purposes. Dispersed recreation, grazing, and other uses which the Secretary determines to be compatible with scientific research may be permitted. (2) The research site shall be managed to enhance scientific research objectives. Scientific research activities and associated research equipment and structures shall be permitted within the research site in accordance with the plan. (3) Roads shall be limited to those necessary for scientific research activities and other reasonable activities as determined by the Secretary. Motor vehicle use shall be restricted to roads designated in the plan. (4) The landing of small instrumented research rockets shall be permitted to continue in portions of the research site designated for such purposes in the plan. TITLE III—FOR THE RELIEF OF ALBERT AND EULALIA RODRIGUEZ

Appropriation authorization.

SEC. 301. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to reimburse Albert and Eulalia Rodriguez for improvements to land situated in section 5, township 25 north, range 13 east of the New Mexico principal meridian within the Taos Pueblo Grant, State of New Mexico. SEC. 302. Beginning October 1, 1981, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated not more than $20,000 for the purposes of this Act. TITLE IV—FOR THE RELIEF OF THE VERMEJO CONSERVANCY DISTRICT

42 USC 5121 note.

SEC. 401. That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, subject to the written consent of the Vermejo Conservancy District, to amend contract numbered 178r-458, dated August 7, 1952, as amended, between the Vermejo Conservancy District, located in the State of New Mexico, and the United States for the construction, operation, and maintenance of the Vermejo reclamation project, to defer payments on the remaining repayment obligation of the Vermejo Conservancy District under such contract, until such time or times as the Secretary determines additional repayment to be reasonably feasible, to relieve the district of such other penalties, assessments, or costs, including interest, which have accrued or may become due under the existing contract prior to enactment of this Act, and to transfer all right, title, and interest in or to the project facilities serving the Vermejo Conservancy District: Provided, That the Vermejo Conservancy District shall, to the extent practicable, continue to operate and maintain the facilities of the Vermejo project for the benefit of all authorized project beneficiaries, including the Maxwell National Wildlife Refuge, and in accordance with the authorized project purposes: Provided further. That with the exception of assistance, if needed, under the Disaster Relief Act of 1974, as amended, the Federal Government shall incur no further expense on behalf of the Vermejo project or the Vermejo Conservancy District for the operation and

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