Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 96 Part 1.djvu/1311

 PUBLIC LAW 97-293—OCT. 12, 1982

96 STAT. 1269

RESIDENCY NOT REQUIRED

SEC. 211. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, irrigation 43 USC 390kk. water made available from the operation of reclamation project facilities shall not be withheld from delivery to any project lands for the reason that the owners, lessees, or operators do not live on or near them. CORPS OF E N G I N E E R S PROJECTS

SEC. 212. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, neither 43 USC 390 H. the ownership or pricing limitation provisions nor the other provisions of Federal reclamation law, including this title, shall be applicable to lands receiving benefits from Federal water resources projects constructed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, unless— (1) the project has, by Federal statute, explicitly been designated, made a part of, or integrated with a Federal reclamation project; or (2) the Secretary, pursuant to his authority under Federal reclamation law, has provided project works for the control or conveyance of an agricultural water supply for the lands involved. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section to the contrary, obligations that require water users, pursuant to contracts with the Secretary, to repay the share of construction costs and to pay the share of the operation and maintenance and contract administrative costs of a Corps of Engineers project which are allocated to conservation storage or irrigation storage shall remain in effect. REPAYMENT OF CONSTRUCTION CHARGES

SEC. 213. (a) The ownership and full cost pricing limitations of this 43 USC 390mm. title and the ownership limitations provided in any other provision of Federal reclamation law shall not apply to lands in a district after the obligation of a district for the repayment of the construction costs of the project facilities used to make project water available for delivery to such lands shall have been discharged by a district (or by a person within the district pursuant to a contract existing on the date of enactment of this Act), by payment of periodic installments throughout a specified contract term, including individual or district accelerated payments where so provided in contracts existing on the date of enactment of this Act. (b)(1) The Secretary shall provide, upon request of any owner of Certificate. a landholding for which repayment has occurred, a certificate acknowledging that the landholding is free of the ownership or full cost pricing limitation of Federal reclamation law. Such certificate shall be in a form suitable for entry in the land records of the county in which such landholding is located. (2) Any certificate issued by the Secretary prior to the date of Ratification. enactment of this Act acknowledging that the landholding is free of the acreage limitation of Federal reclamation law is hereby ratified. (c) Nothing in this title shall be construed as authorizing or permitting lump sum or accelerated repayment of construction costs, except in the case of a repayment contract which is in effect upon the date of enactment of this Act and which provides for such lump sum or accelerated repa3rment by an individual or district.

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