Reclamation Safety of Dams Act Amendments of 1984
PL 98-404 (H.R.1652), enacted 08/28/1984

PUBLIC LAW 98-404—AUG. 28, 1984 
STAT. 1481 
Public Law 98-404 
98th Congress 
An Act 
To amend the Reclamation Safety of Dams Act of 1978, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may 
be cited as "The Reclamation Safety of Dams Act Amendments of 
1984" and that the Reclamation Safety of Dams Act of 1978 (92 Stat. 
2471, 43 U.S.C. 506, et seq.) is amended as follows: 
(1) In subsection 40t)), strike "Costs" and insert the following in 
lieu thereof: "With respect to the $100,000,000 authorized to be 
appropriated in the Reclamation Safety of Dams Act of 1978, costs". 
(2) After section 40t)), add the following new subsections: 
"(c) With respect to the additional $650,000,000 authorized to be 
appropriated in The Reclamation Safety of Dams Act Amendments 
of 1984, costs incurred in the modification of structures under this 
Act, the cause of which results from new hydrologic or seismic data 
or changes in state-of-the-art criteria deemed necessary for safety 
purposes, shall be reimbursed to the extent provided in this 
subsection. 
"(1) Fifteen percent of such costs shall be allocated to the 
authorized purposes of the structure, except that in the case of 
Jackson Lake Dam, Minidoka Project, Idaho-Wyoming, such 
costs shall be allocated in accordance with the allocation of 
operation and maintenance charges. 
"(2) Costs allocated to irrigation water service and capable of 
being repaid by the irrigation water users shall be reimbursed 
within 50 years of the year in which the work undertaken 
pursuant to this Act is substantially complete. Costs allocated to 
irrigation water service which are beyond the water users' 
ability to pay shall be reimbursed in accordance with existing 
law. 
"(3) Costs allocated to recreation or fish and wildlife enhance-
ment shall be reimbursed in accordance with the Federal Water 
Project Recreation Act (79 Stat. 213), as amended. 
"(4) Costs allocated to the purpose of municipal, industrial, 
and miscellaneous water service, commercial power, and the 
portion of recreation and fish and wildlife enhancement costs 
reimbursable under the Federal Water Project Recreation Act, 
shall be repaid within 50 years with interest. The interest rate 
used shall be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, 
taking into consideration average market yields on outstanding 
marketable obligations of the United States with remaining 
periods to maturity comparable to the applicable reimburse-
ment period during the month preceding the fiscal year in 
which the costs are incurred. To the extent that more than one 
interest rate is determined pursuant to the preceding sentence, 
the Secretary of the Treasury shall establish an interest rate at 
the weighted average of the rates so determined. 
Aug. 28, 1984 
[H.R. 1652] 
The Reclamation 
Safety of Dams 
Act 
Amendments of 
1984. 
43 u s e 506 note. 
43 u s e 508. 
43 u s e 506 note, 
Supra. 
43 u s e 506 note. 
16 u s e 460Z-12 
note. 
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98 STAT. 1482 
PUBLIC LAW 98-404—AUG. 28, 1984 
Contracts with 
"(d) The Secretary is authorized to negotiate appropriate contracts 
US. 
with project beneficiaries providing for the return of reimbursable 
costs under this Act: Provided, however. That no contract entered 
43 use 506 note, into pursuant to this Act shall be deemed to be a new or amended 
43 use 890 cc. 
contract for the purposes of section 203(a) of Public Law 97-293.". 
43 use 509. 
(3) In the first sentence of section 5 strike the comma and all that 
follows through "Provided, That no funds" and insert in lieu 
thereof: "and, effective October 1, 1983, not to exceed an additional 
$650,000,000 (October 1, 1983, price levels), plus or minus such 
amounts, if any, as may be justified by reason of ordinary fluctua-
tions in construction costs as indicated by engineering cost indexes 
applicable to the types of construction involved herein, to carry out 
the provisions of this Act to remain available until expended if so 
provided by the appropriations Act: Provided, That no funds exceed-
ing $750,000". 
(4) After section 11, insert the following new sections 12 and 13: 
43 use 506 note. 
"SEC. 12. Included within the scope of this Act are Fish Lake, Four 
Mile, Ochoco, Savage Rapids Diversion and Warm Springs Dams, 
Oregon; Como Dam, Montana; Little Wood River Dam, Idaho; and 
related facilities which have been made a part of a Federal reclama-
tion project by previous Acts of Congress. Coolidge Dam, San Carlos 
Irrigation Project, Arizona, shall also be included within the scope of 
this Act. 
"SEC. 13. The cost of foundation treatment, drainage and instru-
mentation work planned or underway at Twin Buttes, Texas, and 
Foss Dam, Oklahoma, shall be nonreimbursable and nonreturnable 
under Federal reclamation law.". 
Approved August 28, 1984. 
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LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 1652 (S. 672) (S. Res. 234): 
HOUSE REPORT No. 98-168 (eomm. on Interior and Insular Affairs). 
SENATE REPORT No. 98-258 accompanying S. 672 (Oomm. on Energy and Natural 
RGSourcGs). 
eONGRESSIONAL REOORD, Vol. 130 (1984): 
Mar. 20, considered and passed House. 
Aug. 9, considered and passed Senate, amended. 
Aug. 10, House concurred in Senate amendments.