Pub. L. 92-514, tit. I, sec. 104

Sec. 104. (a) Except as hereinafter provided, project costs shall be nonreimbursable. (b) After the project or any phase thereof has been constructed and is operational, the Secretary shall make water available in the following listed order of priority: (1) To assist in making the annual delivery of water at the gaging station on the Rio Grande near Lobatos, Colorado, as required by article III of the Rio Grande compact: Provided, That the total amount of water delivered for this purpose shall not exceed an aggregate of six hundred thousand acrefeet for any period of ten consecutive years reckoned in continuing progressive series beginning with the first, day of January next Succeeding the year in which the Secretary determined that the project authorized by this Act is operational. (2) To maintain the Alamosa National Wildlife Refuge and the Mishak National Wildlife Refuge: Provided, That the amount of water delivered to the Alamosa National Wildlife Refuge shall not exceed five thousand three hundred acrefeet annually, and the water delivered to the Mishak National Wildlife Refuge shall not exceed twelve thousand five hundred acrefeet annually. (3) To apply to the reduction and elimination of any accumulated deficit in deliveries by Colorado as is determined to exist by the Rio Grande Compact Commission under article VI of the Rio Grande compact at the end of the compact water years in which the Secretary first determines the project to be operational. (4) For irrigation or other beneficial uses in Colorado: Provided, That no water shall lie delivered until agreements between the United States and water users in Colorado, or the Rio Grande Water Conservation District acting for them, have been executed providing for the repayment of such costs as in the opinion of the Secretary are appropriate and within the ability of the users to pay.