An Act to provide for the construction, operation, and maintenance of the Savery-Pot Hook, Bostwick Park, and Fruitland Mesa participating reclamation projects under the Colorado River Storage Project Act
PL 88-568 (H.R.3672), enacted 09/02/1964

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PUBLIC LAW 88-568-SEPT. 2, 1%4 
[78 STAT. 
Public Law 88-568 
September 2, 1964 
[H. R. 3672] 
AN ACT 
To provide for the construction, operation, and maintenance of the Savery-Pot 
Hook, Bostwick Park, and Fruitland Mesa participating reclamation projects 
under the Colorado River Storage Project Act. 
and Fruitland 
Mesa Federal 
reclamation proj-
ects. 
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Be it ermcted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
<f^t^iJk^p'Irk°°'^' ^^^'^^^ States of America, in Congress assembled^ That, in order to 
provide for the construction, operation, and maintenance of the 
Savery-Pot Hook Federal reclamation project, Colorado-Wyoming, 
the Bostwick Park Federal reclamation project, Colorado, and the 
Fruitland Mesa Federal reclamation project, Colorado, as participat-
ing projects under the Colorado River Storage Project Act (70 Stat. 
105; 43 U.S.C. 620), section 1 of said Act is amended by inserting the 
words "Savery-Pot Hook, Bostwick Park, Fruitland Mesa," between 
the words "Seedskadee" and "Silt"; section 2 of said Act is amended 
by deleting the words "Savery-Pot Hook,", "Bostwick Park,", and 
"Fruitland Mesa,". 
The amount which section 12 of said Act author-
izes to be appropriated is hereby increased by the sum of $47,000,000 
plus or minus such amounts, if any, as may be required by reason of 
changes in construction costs as indicated by engineering cost indexes 
applicable to the type of construction involved. This additional sum 
shall be available solely for the construction of the projects herein 
authorized. 
SEC. 2. The Savery-Pot Hook Federal reclamation project shall be 
constructed and operated substantially in accordance with the engi-
neering plans set out in the report of the Secretary of the Interior 
transmitted to the Congress on June 25, 1962, and printed as House 
Document 461, Eighty-seventh Congress. The BostAvick Park Fed-
eral reclamation project shall be constructed and operated substan-
tially in accordance with the engineering plans set out in the report 
of the Secretary of the Interior submitted to the Congress on July 20, 
1962, and printed as House Document 487, Eighty-seventh Congress. 
The Fruitland Mesa Federal reclamation project shall be constru<^ted 
and operated substantially in accordance with the engineerins; plans 
set out in the report of the Secretary of the Interior transmitted to 
Congress on April 19, 1963, and printed as House Document 107, 
Eighty-eighth Congress. Acreage equivalents expressed in those re-
ports may be modified at the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior. 
SEC. 3. For the purpose of assisting in the permanent settlement of 
farm families, protecting project land, facilitating proieot develop-
ment, and other beneficial purposes, the provisions of the Act of Au-
gust 28, 1958 (72 Stat. 963), relating to the Seedskadee project in 
Wyoming, are hereby made equally applicable to the Savery-Pot 
Hook, Bostwick Park, and Fruitland Mesa projects and all references 
therein to "Wyoming", "the State of Wyoming", "the laws of the 
State of Wyoming", or "said State" shall also refer to the State of 
Colorado to the extent that lands of the said projects are situated 
therein, except that on the said projects the limitation on lands held 
in single ownership which may be eligible to receive project water 
from, through, or by means of project works shall be one hundred 
and sixty acres of class 1 land as defined for the Bostwick Park proj-
ect or the equivalent thereof in other land classes as determined by 
the Secretary of the Interior. 
SEC. 4. (a) Costs of the Bostwick Park, Fruitland Mesa, and 
Savery-Pot Hook projects, incurred pursuant to section 8 of the Act 
of April 11, 1956 (70 Stat. 105), including an appropriate share of 
the aggregate of joint costs allocated to recreation and fish and wild-
life enhancement shall be nonreimbursable: Provided^ That in the 
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case of the Bostwick Park project joint costs allocated to recreation 
and fish and wildlife enhancement shall in the aggregate be nonre-
imbursable only to the extent they do not exceed 25 per centum of the 
cost of joint use land and facilities of that project (joint use land 
and facilities being defined as land or facilities serving two or more 
project purposes one of which is recreation or fish and wildlife en-
hancement) and: Provided further^ That provision shall be made for 
the reimbursement, for the contribution by non-Federal interests, or 
for the reallocation of joint costs of said project allocated to recrea-
tion and fish and wildlife enhancement in excess of the foregoing 
limit under one or a combination of the following methods as may 
be determined appropriate by the Secretary: (1) provision by non-
Federal interests of lands or interests therein, or facilities required 
for the project; (2) payment, or repayment, with interest at a rate 
determined in accordance with section 5(f) of the Act of April 11, 
1956, as amended, pursuant to agreement with one or more non-Fed- 
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eral public bodies; (3) reallocation to other project functions in the 
same proportion as joint costs are allocated among such functions. 
(b) In connection with the Bostwick Park and Fruitland Mesa 
projects the Secretary of the Interior shall transfer lands acquired 
for the projects within exterior national forest boundaries for admin-
istration as national forest, and jurisdiction of national forests lands 
within the projects shall remain with the Secretary of Agriculture 
for recreation and other national forest system purposes: Provided^ 
That the lands and waters within the flow lines of anj reservoir or 
otherwise needed or used for the operation of the projects for other 
purposes shall continue to be administered by the Secretary of the 
Interior to the extent he determines to be necessary for such operation. 
(c) 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 other project functions. 
SEC. 5. For a period of ten years from the date of enactment of this 
Act, no water from the projects authorized by this Act shall be de-
livered to any water user for the production of newly irrigated lands 
of any basic agricultural commodity, as defined in the Agricultural 
Act of 1949, or any amendment thereof, if the total supply of such 
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commodity for the marketing year in which the bulk of the crop would note. 
normally be marketed is in excess of the normal supply as defined in 
section 301(b) (10) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as 
amended, unless the Secretary of Agriculture calls for an increase in t'^j^^^' '^^^* 
production of such commodity in the interest of national security. 
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Approved September 2, 1964. 
Public Law 88-569 
AN A C T 
September 2, 1964 
To amend the Act of March 10, 1964. 
[H. R. 121283 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 6 of the 
Act of March 10, 1964 (78 Stat. 156), is hereby amended by substitut-
ing the figures "$3,200,000" for the figures "$2,000,000". 
Approved September 2, 1964. 
Riverton recla-
mation project.