A bill to extend the service area for the Sacramento Valley Canals, Central Vallejo project, California, and other purposes.
PL 96-570 (H.R.2111), enacted 12/22/1980

PUBLIC LAW 96-570—DEC. 22, 1980 
94 STAT. 3339 
Public Law 96-570 
96th Congress 
An Act 
To extend the service area for the Sacramento Valley Canals, Central Valley 
project, California, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That the features 
authorized under section 2 of the Act of September 26,1950 (64 Stat. 
1086), as amended, and generally consisting of the Tehama-Colusa 
Canal with all necessary pumping plants and appurtenances, were 
intended to serve and were thereby authorized to serve those lands in 
Yolo County, California, lying within the boundaries of the Colusa 
County and Dunnigan water districts and existing contracts between 
the Secretary of the Interior and the Colusa County and Dunnigan 
water districts are hereby validated by the Congress with respect to 
the inclusion of said districts in the authorized service area of the 
Tehama-Colusa Canal. 
SEC. 2. Section 2 of the Act of September 26,1950 (64 Stat. 1036), as 
amended, is further amended by striking the phrase "Tehama, 
Glenn, and Colusa Counties or" and inserting in lieu thereof the 
phrase "Tehama, Glenn, and Colusa Counties, and those portions of 
Yolo County within the boundaries of the Colusa County, Dunnigan, 
and Yolo-Zamora water districts or". 
SEC. 3. Any water service contract hereinafter entered into by the 
Secretary of the Interior with the Yolo-Zamora Water District shall 
contain provisions establishing— 
(a) that water users shall pay for such water at a rate 
equivalent to the cost of service to the Yolo-Zamora Water 
District or the district's repayment capacity, whichever is less, 
but in no case less than the annual operations, maintenance, and 
replacement costs allocable to the district for service of Central 
Valley project water, all as determined by the Secretary of the 
Interior in conformance with reclamation law and in consulta-
tion with the district: Provided, That the district's repayment 
capacity and the operations, maintenance, and replacement costs 
shall be recalculated and revised no less frequently than every 
five years and the water rates adjusted as appropriate to reflect 
such revisions; 
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) that any water supply contract between the Secretary and 
the Yolo-Zamora Water District shall provide that in the event of 
a dry or critically dry year the water supply provided to the Yolo-
Zamora Water District may be reduced by the Secretary for 
salinity control purposes consistent with administrative and 
operations practices of the Central Valley project; and 
(c) that the lands in the Yolo-Zamora Water District which are 
classified as class 4 gmd 6 pursuant to the Secretary of the 
Interior's classification standards for irrigable lands and which 
have not previously been under active cultivation shall not be 
irrigated with project water. 
Dec. 22, 1980 
[H.R. 2111] 
Sacramento 
Valley Canals, 
Central Valley 
project, Calif. 
Service area 
extension. 
Yolo-Zamora 
Water District. 
94 STAT. 3340 
PUBLIC LAW 96-570—DEC. 22, 1980 
Imperial 
gj-Q 4 Tj^g following provisions of the Federal reclamation laws 
oSct"^ 
^^^^^ not apply to lands within the Imperial Irrigation District of 
43 use 423e 
California after the date of enactment of this Act: 
note. 
(a) section 5 of the Act entitled "An Act appropriating the 
receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in certain 
States and Territories to the construction of irrigation works for 
the reclamation of arid lands", approved June 17,1902 (43 U.S.C. 
431); 
Qi) section 46 of the Act entitled "An Act to adjust water-right 
charges, to grant certain other relief on the Federal irrigation 
projects, and for other purposes", approved May 25, 1926 (42 
43USC423e. 
U.S.C. 423e); and 
(c) any other provision of law amendatory or supplementary to 
either of such sections. 
Approved December 22, 1980. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 
HOUSE REPORT No. 96-600 (Coram, on Interior and Insular Affairs). 
SENATE REPORT No. 96-907 (Coram, on Energy and Natural Resources). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: 
Vol. 125 (1979): Nov. 27, considered and passed House. 
Vol. 126 (1980): Sept. 4, considered and passed Senate, amended. 
Nov. 21, House concurred in Senate amendment with an amend-
ment. 
Dec. 12, Senate agreed to House amendment with an amendment. 
Dec. 13, House agreed to Senate araendraent.