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River Authority of Texas under Contract No. DACW63–76–C–0166,
other than financial responsibilities, except as provided for in sub-
section (c) of this section. The Trinity River Authority shall be
relieved of all of its financial responsibilities under the Contract
as of the date the Secretary of the Army enters into the agreement
with the City.
(b) In consideration of the agreement referred to in subsection
(a), the City shall pay the Federal Government a total of $4,290,000
in two installments, one in the amount of $2,150,000, which shall
be due and payable no later than December 1, 2000, and one
in the amount of $2,140,000, which shall be due and payable no
later than December 1, 2003.
(c) The agreement executed pursuant to subsection (a) shall
include a provision requiring the City to assume all costs associated
with operation and maintenance of the recreation facilities included
in the Contract referred to in that subsection.
SEC. 102. Agreements proposed for execution by the Assistant
Secretary of the Army for Civil Works or the United States Army
Corps of Engineers after the date of the enactment of this Act
pursuant to section 4 of the Rivers and Harbor Act of 1915, Public
Law 64–291; section 11 of the River and Harbor Act of 1925,
Public Law 68–585; the Civil Functions Appropriations Act, 1936,
Public Law 75–208; section 215 of the Flood Control Act of 1968,
as amended, Public Law 90–483; sections 104, 203, and 204 of
the Water Resources Development Act of 1986, as amended (Public
Law 99–662); section 206 of the Water Resources Development
Act of 1992, as amended, Public Law 102–580; section 211 of the
Water Resources Development Act of 1996, Public Law 104–303,
and any other specific project authority, shall be limited to credits
and reimbursements per project not to exceed $10,000,000 in each
fiscal year, and total credits and reimbursements for all applicable
projects not to exceed $50,000,000 in each fiscal year.
SEC. 103. None of the funds made available in this Act may
be used to revise the Missouri River Master Water Control Manual
when it is made known to the Federal entity or official to which
the funds are made available that such revision provides for an
increase in the springtime water release program during the spring
heavy rainfall and snow melt period in States that have rivers
draining into the Missouri River below the Gavins Point Dam.
SEC. 104. ST. GEORGES BRIDGE, DELAWARE. None of the funds
made available by this Act may be used to carry out any activity
relating to closure or removal of the St. Georges Bridge across
the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Delaware, including a hearing
or any other activity relating to preparation of an environmental
impact statement concerning the closure or removal.
SEC. 105. Within available funds under title I, the Secretary
of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, shall provide
up to $7,000,000 to replace and upgrade the dam in Kake, Alaska
which collapsed July 2000, to provide drinking water and
hydroelectricity.
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TITLE II
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
CENTRAL UTAH PROJECT
CENTRAL UTAH PROJECT COMPLETION ACCOUNT
For carrying out activities authorized by the Central Utah
Project Completion Act, $38,724,000, to remain available until
expended, of which $19,566,000 shall be deposited into the Utah
Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Account: Provided, That
of the amounts deposited into that account, $5,000,000 shall be
considered the Federal contribution authorized by paragraph
402(b)(2) of the Central Utah Project Completion Act and
$14,158,000 shall be available to the Utah Reclamation Mitigation
and Conservation Commission to carry out activities authorized
under that Act.
In addition, for necessary expenses incurred in carrying out
related responsibilities of the Secretary of the Interior, $1,216,000,
to remain available until expended.
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION
The following appropriations shall be expended to execute
authorized functions of the Bureau of Reclamation:
WATER AND RELATED RESOURCES
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For management, development, and restoration of water and
related natural resources and for related activities, including the
operation, maintenance and rehabilitation of reclamation and other
facilities, participation in fulfilling related Federal responsibilities
to Native Americans, and related grants to, and cooperative and
other agreements with, State and local governments, Indian tribes,
and others, $678,450,000, to remain available until expended, of
which $1,916,000 shall be available for transfer to the Upper Colo-
rado River Basin Fund and $39,467,000 shall be available for
transfer to the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund;
of which such amounts as may be necessary may be advanced
to the Colorado River Dam Fund; of which $16,000,000 shall be
for on-reservation water development, feasibility studies, and
related administrative costs under Public Law 106–163; of which
not more than 25 percent of the amount provided for drought
emergency assistance may be used for financial assistance for the
preparation of cooperative drought contingency plans under title
II of Public Law 102–250; and of which not more than $500,000
is for high priority projects which shall be carried out by the
Youth Conservation Corps, as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 1706: Pro-
vided, That such transfers may be increased or decreased within
the overall appropriation under this heading: Provided further, That
of the total appropriated, the amount for program activities that
can be financed by the Reclamation Fund or the Bureau of Reclama-
tion special fee account established by 16 U.S.C. 460l–6a(i) shall
be derived from that Fund or account: Provided further, That funds
contributed under 43 U.S.C. 395 are available until expended for
the purposes for which contributed: Provided further, That funds
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advanced under 43 U.S.C. 397a shall be credited to this account
and are available until expended for the same purposes as the
sums appropriated under this heading: Provided further, That funds
available for expenditure for the Departmental Irrigation Drainage
Program may be expended by the Bureau of Reclamation for site
remediation on a non-reimbursable basis: Provided further, That
section 301 of Public Law 102–250, Reclamation States Emergency
Drought Relief Act of 1991, as amended, is amended further by
inserting ‘‘2000, and 2001’’ in lieu of ‘‘and 2000’’: Provided further,
That the amount authorized for Indian municipal, rural, and indus-
trial water features by section 10 of Public Law 89–108, as amended
by section 8 of Public Law 99–294, section 1701(b) of Public Law
102–575, Public Law 105–245, and Public Law 106–60 is increased
by $2,000,000 (October 1998 prices): Provided further, That the
amount authorized for Minidoka Project North Side Pumping Divi-
sion, Idaho, by section 5 of Public Law 81–864, is increased by
$2,805,000: Provided further, That the Reclamation Safety of Dams
Act of 1978 (43 U.S.C. 509) is amended as follows: (1) by inserting
in section 4(c) after ‘‘1984,’’ and before ‘‘costs’’ the following: ‘‘and
the additional $95,000,000 further authorized to be appropriated
by amendments to that Act in 2000,’’; (2) by inserting in section
5 after ‘‘levels),’’ and before ‘‘plus’’ the following: ‘‘and, effective
October 1, 2000, not to exceed an additional $95,000,000 (October
1, 2000, price levels),’’; and (3) by striking ‘‘sixty days (which’’
and all that follows through ‘‘day certain)’’ and inserting ‘‘30 cal-
endar days’’.
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT
For the cost of direct loans and/or grants, $8,944,000, to remain
available until expended, as authorized by the Small Reclamation
Projects Act of August 6, 1956, as amended (43 U.S.C. 422a–
422l): Provided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying
such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional
Budget Act of 1974, as amended: Provided further, That these
funds are available to subsidize gross obligations for the principal
amount of direct loans not to exceed $27,000,000.
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry
out the program for direct loans and/or grants, $425,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That of the total sums appro-
priated, the amount of program activities that can be financed
by the Reclamation Fund shall be derived from that Fund.
CENTRAL VALLEY PROJECT RESTORATION FUND
For carrying out the programs, projects, plans, and habitat
restoration, improvement, and acquisition provisions of the Central
Valley Project Improvement Act, $38,382,000, to be derived from
such sums as may be collected in the Central Valley Project Restora-
tion Fund pursuant to sections 3407(d), 3404(c)(3), 3405(f ), and
3406(c)(1) of Public Law 102–575, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That the Bureau of Reclamation is directed
to assess and collect the full amount of the additional mitigation
and restoration payments authorized by section 3407(d) of Public
Law 102–575.
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POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION
For necessary expenses of policy, administration, and related
functions in the office of the Commissioner, the Denver office,
and offices in the five regions of the Bureau of Reclamation, to
remain available until expended, $50,224,000, to be derived from
the Reclamation Fund and be nonreimbursable as provided in 43
U.S.C. 377: Provided, That no part of any other appropriation
in this Act shall be available for activities or functions budgeted
as policy and administration expenses.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION
Appropriations for the Bureau of Reclamation shall be available
for purchase of not to exceed four passenger motor vehicles for
replacement only.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
SEC. 201. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available by this or any other Act may be used to pay the salaries
and expenses of personnel to purchase or lease water in the Middle
Rio Grande or the Carlsbad Projects in New Mexico unless said
purchase or lease is in compliance with the purchase requirements
of section 202 of Public Law 106–60.
SEC. 202. Funds under this title for Drought Emergency Assist-
ance shall be made available primarily for leasing of water for
specified drought related purposes from willing lessors, in compli-
ance with existing State laws and administered under State water
priority allocation. Such leases may be entered into with an option
to purchase: Provided, That such purchase is approved by the
State in which the purchase takes place and the purchase does
not cause economic harm within the State in which the purchase
is made.
SEC. 203. Beginning in fiscal year 2001 and thereafter, the
Secretary of the Interior shall assess and collect annually from
Central Valley Project (CVP) water and power contractors the sum
of $540,000 (June 2000 price levels) and remit, without further
appropriation, the amount collected annually to the Trinity Public
Utilities District (TPUD). This assessment shall be payable 70
percent by CVP Preference Power Customers and 30 percent by
CVP Water Contractors. The CVP Water Contractor share of this
assessment shall be collected by the Secretary through established
Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) Operation and Maintenance
ratesetting practices. The CVP Power Contractor share of this
assessment shall be assessed by Reclamation to the Western Area
Power Administration, Sierra Nevada Region (Western), and col-
lected by Western through established power ratesetting practices.
SEC. 204. (a) IN GENERAL.—For fiscal year 2001 and each
fiscal year thereafter, the Secretary of the Interior shall continue
funding, from power revenues, the activities of the Glen Canyon
Dam Adaptive Management Program as authorized by section 1807
of the Grand Canyon Protection Act of 1992 (106 Stat. 4672),
at not more than $7,850,000 (October 2000 price level), adjusted
in subsequent years to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index