An Act to increase the authorization for appropriation for continuing work in the Upper Colorado River Basin by the Secretary of the Interior
PL 92-370 (H.R.13435), enacted 08/10/1972

86 STAT. ] 
PUBLIC LAW 92-371-AUG. 10, 1972 
525 
TITLE III—GENEKAL PKOVISIONS 
SEC. 301. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless 
expressly so provided herein. 
This Act may be cited as the "Department of the Interior and 
Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1973". 
Approved August 10, 1972. 
Short title. 
Public Law 92-370 
AN ACT 
To increase the authorization for appropriation for continuing work in tlie T"pi)er 
Colorado River Basin by the Secretary of the Interior. 
August 10, 1972 
[H, R. 13435] 
increase. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That in order to River*Basi'n°'°'**^ 
provide for completion of construction of the Curecanti, Flaming 
Appropriation 
Gorge, Glen Canyon, and Navajo units, and transmission division of f"^'J'°^i,^°"°"' 
the Colorado River storage project, and for completion of construction 
of the following participating projects: Central Utah (initial phase— 
Bonneville, Jensen, Upalco, and Vernal units), Emery County, 
Florida, Hammond, LaBarge, Lyman, Paonia, Seedskadee, Silt, and 
Smith Fork; the amount which section 12 of the Act of April 11, 1956 
(79 Stat. 105) authorizes to be appropriated is hereby further 
increased by the sum of $610,000,000, plus or minus such amounts, if 
any, as may be required, Ijy reason of changes in construction costs as 
indicated by engineering cost indexes applicable to the type of con-
struction involved. This additional sum shall be available solely for 
continuing construction of the previously authorized units and projects 
named herein. 
Approved August 10, 1972. 
70 Stat. 110. 
43 u s e 620k. 
Public Law 92-371 
AN ACT 
To increase the authorization for appropriation for completing work in the 
Missouri River Basin hy the Secretary of the Interior. 
August 10, 1972 
[S. 3284] 
Be it enacted by the Sen/ite and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Amerwa in Congress assembled, That there is hereby 
authorized to be appropriated the sum of $114,000,000 to provide for 
completion of work in the Missouri River Basin to be undertaken 
by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to the comprehensive plan 
adopted by section 9(a) of the Act approved December 22,1944 (Public 
Law 534, Seventy-eighth Congress), as amended and supplemented 
by subsequent Acts of (Congress, plus or minus such amounts, if any, 
as may be required by reason of changes in construction costs, as 
indicated by engineering cost indices applicable to the type of con-
struction involved. No part of the funds hereby authorized to be appro-
priated shall be available to initiate construction of any unit of the 
Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin program, whether or not included in said 
comprehensive plan; nor for prosecution of Garrison diversion unit, 
reauthorized by the Act of August 5, 1965 (79 Stat. 433). 
Approved August 10, 1972. 
Missouri River 
Basin. 
Appropriation 
authorization, 
increase. 
58 Stat. 891; 
84 Stat. 75.