eration and maintenance of facilities, subject to any 
terms and conditions that the Secretary deems nec-
essary to achieve the purposes of the Settlement. 
(c) ACCEPTANCE AND EXPENDITURE OF NON-FED-
ERAL FUNDS.—The Secretary is authorized to accept and 
expend non-Federal funds in order to facilitate implemen-
tation of the Settlement. 
(d) MITIGATION OF IMPACTS.—Prior to the imple-
mentation of decisions or agreements to construct, im-
prove, operate, or maintain facilities that the Secretary de-
termines are needed to implement the Settlement, the Sec-
retary shall identify— 
(1) the impacts associated with such actions; 
and 
(2) the measures which shall be implemented to 
mitigate impacts on adjacent and downstream water 
users and landowners. 
(e) DESIGN AND ENGINEERING STUDIES.—The Sec-
retary is authorized to conduct any design or engineering 
studies that are necessary to implement the Settlement. 
(f) EFFECT ON CONTRACT WATER ALLOCATIONS.— 
Except as otherwise provided in this section, the imple-
mentation of the Settlement and the reintroduction of 
California Central Valley Spring Run Chinook salmon 
pursuant to the Settlement and section 10, shall not result 
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in the involuntary reduction in contract water allocations 
to Central Valley Project long-term contractors, other 
than Friant Division long-term contractors. 
(g) EFFECT ON EXISTING WATER CONTRACTS.—Ex-
cept as provided in the Settlement and this Act, nothing 
in this Act shall modify or amend the rights and obliga-
tions of the parties to any existing water service, repay-
ment, purchase or exchange contract. 
SEC. 5. ACQUISITION AND DISPOSAL OF PROPERTY; TITLE 
TO FACILITIES. 
(a) TITLE TO FACILITIES.—Unless acquired pursu-
ant to subsection (b), title to any facility or facilities, 
stream channel, levees, or other real property modified or 
improved in the course of implementing the Settlement au-
thorized by this Act, and title to any modifications or im-
provements of such facility or facilities, stream channel, 
levees, or other real property— 
(1) shall remain in the owner of the property; 
and 
(2) shall not be transferred to the United 
States on account of such modifications or improve-
ments. 
(b) ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary is authorized 
to acquire through purchase from willing sellers any 
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property, interests in property, or options to acquire 
real property needed to implement the Settlement 
authorized by this Act. 
(2) APPLICABLE LAW.—The Secretary is au-
thorized, but not required, to exercise all of the au-
thorities provided in section 2 of the Act of August 
26, 1937 (50 Stat. 844, chapter 832), to carry out 
the measures authorized in this section and section 
4. 
(c) DISPOSAL OF PROPERTY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Upon the Secretary’s deter-
mination that retention of title to property or inter-
ests in property acquired pursuant to this Act is no 
longer needed to be held by the United States for 
the furtherance of the Settlement, the Secretary is 
authorized to dispose of such property or interest in 
property on such terms and conditions as the Sec-
retary deems appropriate and in the best interest of 
the United States, including possible transfer of 
such property to the State of California. 
(2) RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL.—In the event 
the Secretary determines that property acquired pur-
suant to this Act through the exercise of its eminent 
domain authority is no longer necessary for imple-
mentation of the Settlement, the Secretary shall pro-
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