8. OROVILLE-TONASKET UNIT, CHIEF JOSEPH DAM PROJECT,

WASHINGTON

Act of October 9, 1962 (76 Stat. 761)

PROJECT AUTHORIZATION AND PURPOSE

SECTION 1. For the purpose of furnishing a new and a supplemental water supply for the irrigation of approximately eight thousand four hundred and fifty acres of land in Okanogan County, Washington, for the purpose of undertaking the rehabilitation and betterment of existing works serving a major portion of these lands and for conservation and development of fish and wildlife resources, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain the Oroville-Tonasket unit of the Okanogan-Similkameen division of the Chief Joseph Dam project, in accordance with the provisions of the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto). The principal works of the unit shall consist of: facilities to permit enlargement and utilization of Palmer Lake storage; related canal, diversion dam, pumping plants, and distribution systems; and necessary works incidental to the rehabilitation of the existing irrigation system.

SEC. 3. The Secretary may make such provisions for fish and wildlife conservation, including the installation, operation and maintenance of fish screens at the pump plants and diversion dam, and provision for sufficient flows in the rivers below Palmer Lake, as he finds to be required for the mitigation of losses or damages to existing fishery and wildlife resources, and, if he determines that it is practicable and desirable to reestablish anadromous fish runs in the Similkameen River, may make such provisions, including the construction, operation, and maintenance of fish ladders and other control works, and downstream flow releases as he finds to be required to accomplish that purpose. The Secretary is further authorized to make provisions for access to project areas for the general public, including fishermen and hunters. An appropriate portion of the construction costs of the unit shall be allocated as provided in the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (48) Stat. 401, as amended, 16 U.S.C. 661 et seq.), which together with the portion of the operation, maintenance, and replacement costs allocated to this function or the equivalent capitalized value thereof, shall be nonreimbursable and nonreturnable under the Federal reclamation

laws.

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APPROPRIATION

SEC. 4. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated for construction of the works authorized by this Act not to exceed $3,210,000, plus or minus such amounts, if any, as may be justified by reason of ordinary fluctuations from January 1961 construction costs as indicated by engineering cost indices applicable to the type of construction involved herein, and not to exceed $400,000 for carrying out the provisions of section 3 of this Act, in addition to the cost of fish screens, when the Secretary finds that conditions justify such expenditures. There are also authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be required for the operation and maintenance of said works.

9. PECOS RIVER BASIN

Act of September 12, 1964 (78 Stat. 942)

NEW MEXICO AND TEXAS WATER SUPPLY

SECTION 1. In order to prevent further decreases in the supply of water in the Pecos River Basin, and in order to increase and protect such water supply for municipal, industrial, irrigation, and recreational uses, and for the conservation of fish and wildlife, and to provide protection for the farmlands in such basin from the hazards of floods, the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the "Secretary") is authorized and directed to take such measures as he deems necessary and appropriate to carry out a continuing program to reduce the nonbeneficial consumption of water in the basin, including that by salt cedar and other undesirable phreatophytes. Such program shall

be carried out in the Pecos River Basin from its headwaters in New Mexico to the town of Girvin, Texas: Provided, however, That no money shall be appropriated for and no work commenced on the clearing of the floodway authorized by the Act of February 20, 1958 (72 Stat. 17), unless provision shall have been made to replace any Carlsbad Irrigation District terminal storage which might be lost by the clearing of said floodway.

(c) Any costs of the program which the Secretary determines are properly allocable to flood control, fish and wildlife conservation and development, recreation, or restoration of streamflow shall be considered as nonreimbursable costs.

(d) In conducting the program, the Secretary shall take such measures as may be necessary to insure that there will be no interference with regular streamflow, no contamination of water, and the least possible hazard to fish and wildlife resources.

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SEC. 2. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the operation of the Trinity River division shall be integrated and coordinated, from both a financial and an operational standpoint, with the operation of other features of the Central Valley project, as presently authorized and as may in the future be authorized by Act of Congress, in such manner as will effectuate the fullest, most beneficial, and most economic utilization of the water resources hereby made available: Provided, That the Secretary is authorized and directed to adopt appropriate measures to insure the preservation and propagation of fish and wildlife, including, but not limited to, the maintenance of the flow of the Trinity River below the diversion point at not less than one hundred and fifty cubic feet per second for the months July through November and the flow of Clear Creek below the diversion point at not less than fifteen cubic feet per second unless the Secretary and the California Fish and Game Commission determine and agree that lesser flows would be adequate for maintenance of fish life and propagation thereof; the Secretary shall also allocate to the preservation and propagation of fish and wildlife, as provided in the Act of August 14, 1946 (60 Stat. 1080), an appropriate share of the costs of constructing the Trinity River development and of operating and maintaining the same, such costs to be nonreimbursable: Provided further, That not less than 50,000 acre-feet shall be released annually from the Trinity Reservoir and made available to Humboldt County and downstream water users.

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11. WASHOE PROJECT

Act of August 1, 1956 (70 Stat. 775), as amended (43 U.S.C. 614, 614c, and 614d)

WASHOE RECLAMATION PROJECT, NEVADA-CALIFORNIA

SECTION 1. For the purposes of furnishing water for the irrigation of approximately fifty thousand acres of land in the Carson and Truckee River Basins, Nevada and California, providing drainage service to approximately thirty-one thousand acres of land therein, firming the existing water supplies of lands under the Truckee River storage project and the Newlands project, controlling floods, providing hydroelectric power, development of fish and wildlife resources, and for other beneficial purposes, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain the Washoe reclamation project consisting of two principal reservoirs at the Stampede and Watasheamu sites, together with other necessary works for the impounding, diversion, and the delivery of water, the generation and transmission of hydroelectric power, and the drainage of lands. The dam at the Stampede site shall be so constructed as to permit its ultimate enlargement to a height at which the reservoir will have a capacity of approxmiately one hundred and seventy-five thousand acre-feet.

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FISH AND WILDLIFE RESOURCES

SEC. 4. Facilities shall be provided for the development of the fish and wildlife resources of the project area including facilities to permit increased minimum water releases from Lake Tahoe and restoration of the Pyramid Lake fishery. The cost of such facilities, including operation and maintenance, shall be nonreimbursable. The cost to the Federal Government of constructing these facilities shall not exceed $2,000,000. This amount shall not include the cost of measures undertaken, pursuant to section 2 of the Act of August 14, 1946 (60 Stat. 1080, 16 U.S.C. 661a), to mitigate damages to fish and wildlife resources occasioned by the Washoe project as authorized by section 1 of this Act.

APPROPRIATION

SEC. 5. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for construction of the Washoe reclamation project the sum of $43,700,000 1 plus such amounts, if any, as may be required by reason of changes in construction costs as indicated by engineering cost indices applicable to the types of construction involved therein and, in addition thereto, such sums as may be required to operate and maintain the project: Provided, That the appropriation of funds for the construction, operation, or maintenance of facilities authorized by section 4 of this Act shall not be from the reclamation fund.

1 Amended in 1959 as follows: "$52,000,000 (April, 1958 prices)."