H. R. 2795
One Hundred Fifth Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
the twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight
An Act
To extend certain contracts between the Bureau of Reclamation and irrigation
water contractors in Wyoming and Nebraska that receive water from Glendo
Reservoir.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Irrigation Project Contract
Extension Act of 1998’’.
SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF CONTRACTS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Interior shall extend
each of the water service or repayment contracts for the Glendo
Unit of the Missouri River Basin Project identified in subsection
(c) until December 31, 2000.
(b) 
EXTENSIONS
COTERMINOUS
WITH
COOPERATIVE
AGREEMENT.—If the cooperative agreement entitled ‘‘Cooperative
Agreement for Platte River Research and other Efforts Relating
to Endangered Species Habitats Along the Central Platte River,
Nebraska’’, entered into by the Governors of the States of Wyoming,
Nebraska, and Colorado and the Secretary of the Interior, is
extended for a term beyond December 31, 2000, the contracts identi-
fied in subsection (c) shall be extended for the same term, but
not to go beyond December 31, 2001. If the cooperative agreement
terminates prior to December 31, 2000, the contracts identified
in subsection (c) shall be subject to renewal on the date that
the cooperative agreement terminates.
(c) CONTRACTS.—The contracts identified in this subsection
are—
(1) the contract between the United States and the New
Grattan Ditch Company for water service from Glendo Res-
ervoir (Contract No. 14–06–700–7591), dated March 7, 1974;
(2) the contract between the United States and Burbank
Ditch for water service from Glendo Reservoir (Contract No.
14–06–700–6614), dated May 23, 1969;
(3) the contract between the United States and the
Torrington Irrigation District for water service from Glendo
Reservoir (Contract No. 14–06–700–1771), dated July 14, 1958;
(4) the contract between the United States and the Lucerne
Canal and Power Company for water service from Glendo Res-
ervoir (Contract No. 14–06–700–1740, as amended), dated June
12, 1958, and amended June 10, 1960;
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(5) the contract between the United States and the Wright
and Murphy Ditch Company for water service from Glendo
Reservoir (Contract No. 14–06–700–1741), dated June 12, 1958;
(6) the contract between the United States and the Bridge-
port Irrigation District for water service from Glendo Reservoir
(Contract No. 14–06–700–8376, renumbered 6–07–70–W0126),
dated July 9, 1976;
(7) the contract between the United States and the Enter-
prises Irrigation District for water service from Glendo Res-
ervoir (Contract No. 14–06–700–1742), dated June 12, 1958;
(8)(A) the contract between the United States and the
Mitchell Irrigation District for an increase in carryover storage
capacity in Glendo Reservoir (Contract No. 14–06–700–1743,
renumbered 8–07–70–W0056 Amendment No. 1), dated March
22, 1985; and
(B) the contract between the United States and the Mitchell
Irrigation District for water service from Glendo Reservoir (Con-
tract No. 14–06–700–1743, renumbered 8–07–70–W0056), dated
June 12, 1958; and
(9) the contract between the United States and the Central
Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District for repayment
of allocated irrigation costs of Glendo Reservoir (Contract No.
5–07–70–W0734), dated December 31, 1984.
(d) STATUTORY
CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section
precludes the Secretary of the Interior from making an extension
under subsection (a) or (b) in the form of annual extensions.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.