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 96 STAT. 1182

Oahe unit, initial stage.

Appropriation authorization.

PUBLIC LAW 97-273—SEPT. 30, 1982

(c) The Secretary may contract with the State to carry out the studies authorized by this section. SEC. 4. (a) The Secretary is authorized to cancel the master contract and participating and security contracts for the Oahe unit, initial Stage: Provided, That such actions shall be done with the agreement of the Oahe Conservancy Subdistrict and the Spink and West Brown irrigation districts: Provided further, That any repayment obligation existing at the time of cancellation of the master and participating and security contracts shall thereafter be treated as a deferred cost of the Pick-Sloan Missouri basin program: Provided, however, That such costs shall be assumed and repaid by the beneficiaries of any future project which utilizes the Oahe unit facilities. Such repayment obligation and manner of repayment shall be determined pursuant to the Act of June 17, 1902, and Acts supplementary thereto and amendatory thereof (43 U.S.C. 371). (b) Those features of the authorized plan of development for the Oahe unit, initial stage, which were designed for and could be used only to deliver irrigation water to the Spink and West Brown irrigation districts namely: Faulkton, Cresbard, West Main, Redfield, James, and East canals; Cresbard and Byron dams and reservoirs; James and Byron pumping plants; and associated features; shall not be constructed by the Secretary without further action by the Congress, but nothing in this Act shall be deemed to limit the authority of the Secretary to recommend development of other features, based upon any study authorized by section 3(a)(1) of this Act. SEC. 5. The Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the Department of Energy, is authorized to make available the PickSloan Missouri basin program pumping power to the Crow Creek, Cheyenne River, Omaha and Standing Rock Indian Reservation irrigation developments, and the Grass Rope Unit, Pick-Sloan Missouri basin program. Such pumping power shall also be made available to such additional irrigation projects as may be subsequently authorized to receive such power by Act of Congress. SEC. 6. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated beginning October 1, 1982, such funds as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Approved September 30, 1982.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 4347: HOUSE REPORT No. 97-524 Pt. 1 (Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs), Pt. 2 (Comm. on Agriculture). SENATE REPORT No. 97-514 (Comm. on Energy and Natural Resources). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 128 (1982): June 8, considered and passed House. Aug. 19, considered and passed Senate, amended. Sept. 23, House concurred in Senate amendment. WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Vol. 18, No. 39 (1982): Sept. 30, Presidential statement.

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