Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 96 Part 1.djvu/1304

 96 STAT. 1262

PUBLIC LAW 97-293—OCT. 12, 1982

43 USC 485k. 43 USC 390b

tion 9 of the Flood Control Act of December 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 887, 891), as amended and supplemented. Revenues for the return of costs allocated to power shall be determined by power rate and repayment analysis of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin program. Repayment contracts for the return of costs allocated to municipal and industrial water and irrigation water supplies exclusive of State participation pursuant to section 107 shall be negotiated under provisions of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1198) or the Water Supply Act of 1958 (72 Stat. 320), as amended, and shall

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b e prerequisite to the initiation of construction of facilities for this

purpose. Costs allocated to environmental quality shall be nonreimbursable and nonreturnable under Federal reclamation law. TRANSMISSION INTERCONNECTIONS

SEC. 104. (a) The Secretary of Energy is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain transmission interconnections as required physically to interconnect the hydroelectric powerplant authorized by this title to existing power systems as he determines necessary to accomplish distribution and marketing of the power generated. (b) Hydroelectric power generated by the facility constructed pursuant to this title shall be delivered to the Secretary of Energy for distribution and marketing. Such facility shall be financially integrated with the Western Division, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin program power system and the power marketed under rate schedules in effect for such system. INTEREST

SEC. 105. The interest rate used for computing interest during construction and interest on the unpaid balance of the reimbursable costs of the Buffalo Bill Dam and Reservoir modifications shall be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, as of the beginning of the fiscal year in which construction of the unit is commenced, 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 fifteen years from date of issue. AUTHORIZATION FOR APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 106. (a) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated beginning October 1, 1982, for construction of the Buffalo Bill Dam and Reservoir modifications the sum of $106,700,000 (October 1982 price levels) plus or minus such amounts, if any, as may be required by reason of ordinary fluctuations in construction costs as indicated by engineering cost indexes applicable to the tj^es of construction involved herein and, in addition thereto, such sums as may be required for operation, maintenance, and replacement of the works of said modifications: Provided, That, such sums authorized to be appropriated for construction, operation, maintenance, and replacement shall be reduced by the amounts contributed to the project under the provisions of section 107 of this title. (b) There is also authorized to be appropriated beginning October 1, 1982, such sums as may be required by the Secretary of Energy to accomplish interconnection of the powerplant authorized by this title, together with such sums as may be required for operation and maintenance of the works authorized by section 104(a).

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