An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Whitestone Coulee unit of the Okanogan-Similkameen division, Chief Joseph Dam project, Washington, and for other purposes.
PL 88-599 (S.2447), enacted 09/18/1964

78 STAT. ] 
PUBLIC LAW 88-599-SEPT. 18, 1964 
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Public Law 88-599 
AN A C T 
September 18, 1964 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain 
[s. 2447] 
the Whitestone Coulee unit of the Okanogan-Similkameen division, Chief 
Joseph Dam project, Washington, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose 
of furnishing a new and a supplemental water supply for the irriga-
tion of approximately two thousand five hundred and fifty acres of 
land in Okanogan County, Washington, for the purpose of under-
taking the rehabilitation and betterment of existing works serving a 
major portion of these lands, and for conservation and development 
of fish and wildlife resources and improvement of public recreation 
facilities, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to construct, 
operate, and maintain the Whitestone Coulee unit of the Okanogan-
Similkameen division of the Chief Joseph Dam project, in accordance 
Avith the provisions of the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 
1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatorjr thereof or supplementary 
thereto). The principal works of the unit shall consist of: facilities 
to permit enlargement and utilization of Spectacle Lake storage; 
related canal and conduits, diversion dam^ pumping plants, and dis-
tribution systems; and necessary works incidental to the rehabilitation 
and expansion of the existing irrigation system. 
SEC. 2. The provisions of section 2 of the Act of July 27, 1954 (68 
Stat. 568, 569), shall be applicable to the Whitestone Coulee unit of 
the Okanogan-Similkameen division of the Chief Joseph Dam proj-
ect. 
The term "construction costs" used therein shall include any 
irrigation operation, maintenance, and replacement costs during the 
development period which the Secretary finds it proper to fund because 
they are beyond the ability of the water users to pay during that 
period. 
SEC. 3. (a) The Secretary is authorized as a part of the Whitestone 
Coulee unit to construct, operate, and maintain or otherwise provide 
for basic public outdoor recreation facilities, to acquire or otherwise 
to include within the unit area such adjacent lands or interests therein 
as are necessary for public recreation use, to allocate water and reser-
voir capacity to recreation, and to provide for public use and enjoy-
ment of unit lands, facilities, and water areas in a manner coordinated 
with the other unit purposes. The Secretary is authorized to enter 
into agreements with Federal agencies or State or local public bodies 
for the operation, maintenance, and additional development of unit 
lands or facilities, or to dispose of unit lands or facilities to Federal 
agencies or State or local puolic bodies by lease, transfer, exchange, or 
conveyance, upon such terms and conditions as will best promote the 
development and operation of such lands or facilities in the public 
interest for recreation purposes. The costs of the aforesaid under-
takings, including costs of investigation, planning. Federal operation 
and maintenance, and an appropriate share of the joint costs of the 
unit, shall be nonreimbursable. Nothing herein shall limit the author-
ity of the Secretary granted by existing provisions of law relating to 
recreation development of water resources projects or the disposition 
of public lands for recreational purposes. 
(b) The costs of means and measures to prevent loss of and damage 
to fish and wildlife resources shall be considered as project costs and 
allocated as may be appropriate among the project functions. 
Whitestone Cou-
lee unit. Chief 
Joseph Dam proj-
ect. Wash. 
Construction. 
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note. 
"Construction 
costs." 
Project costs. 
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PUBLIC LAW 88-600-SEPT. 18, 1964 
[78 STAT. 
Appropriation. 
Q^^ 4 There RFe hereby authorized to be appropriated for con-
struction of the new works involved in the Whitestone Coulee unit, of 
the Okanogan-Similkameen division of the Chief Joseph Dam project 
$5,312,000, plus or minus such amounts, if any, as may be required by 
reason of changes in the cost of construction work of the types involved 
therein as shown by engineering cost indices and, in addition thereto, 
such sums as may be required to operate and maintain said division. 
Approved September 18, 1964. 
September 18, 1964 
[S. 2370] 
Public Law 88-600 
AN ACT 
Authorizing maintenance of flood and arroyo sediment control dams and related 
works to facilitate Rio Grande canalization project and authorizing appropria-
tions for that purpose. 
Rio Grande ca-
nalization project. 
Flood and sedi-
ment control. 
Agreements au-
thorized. 
Appropriation. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Re'presentatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That for the purposes 
of facilitating and implementing operation and maintenance of the 
international Rio Grande canalization project, the United States Com-
missioner, International Boundary and Water Commission, United 
States and Mexico, is authorized to enter into agreements with the 
appropriate official or officials of local organizations, as defined in the 
Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act of August 4, 1954 
(70 Stat. 1088), as amended (16 U.S.C.A. 1001, et seq.), for the mainte-
nance by said local organizations either directly or indirectly through 
mutually satisfactory maintenance agreements with others, including 
the United States, of all those flood and arroyo sediment control dams, 
together with all related works, hereafter installed or constructed in 
the Rio Grande watershed between Caballo Dam and El Paso, Texas, 
in accordance with said Act, and which are necessary, in the opinion 
of said Commissioner, to facilitate and implement the operation and 
maintenance of said project. 
Such maintenance agreements between the local organization and 
Hie United States shall provide the extent of contribution by the 
United States as may be mutually agreed b^ the two parties, based on 
the degree of benefits to be derived from said dams and related works, 
and the contribution by the United States ma^ be either in the form 
of funds or performance of the actual operation and maintenance. 
Control gates shall not be installed on any of the dams which, in the 
opinion of the United States Commissioner, International Boundary 
and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, are necessary to 
facilitate and implement the operation and maintenance of the Rio 
Grande canalization project. 
Arrangements made between the United States and the local orga-
nizations shall be satisfactory to the Secretary of Agriculture for 
defraying cost of maintaining such work of improvement in accordance 
with regulations prescribed by said Secretary. 
There is hereby authorized to be appropriated not in excess of 
$23,000 per annum for contributions to maintenance authorized by this 
Act. 
Approved September 18, 1964.