INCREASED PROJECT WATER CAPABILITY.

SEC. 302. INCREASED PROJECT WATER CAPABILITY. (a) Acquisition.—The District shall acquire, on an expedited basis with funds to be provided by the Commission in accordance with the schedule specified in section 315, by purchase from willing sellers or exchange, twenty-five thousand acre-feet of water rights in the Utah Lake drainage basin to achieve the purposes of this section. Water purchases which would have the effect of compromising groundwater resources or dewatering agricultural lands in the Upper Provo River areas should be avoided. Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated by section 201, $15,000,000 shall be available only for the purposes of this subsection. (b) Nonconsumptive Rights.—A nonconsumptive right in perpetuity to any water acquired under this section shall be tendered in accordance with the laws of the State of Utah within thirty days of its acquisition by the District to the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources for the purposes of maintaining instream flows provided for in section 303(c)(3) and 303(c)(4) for fish, wildlife, and recreation in the Provo River. (c) Authorization of Appropriations.—Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated by section 201, $4,000,000 shall be available only to modify existing or construct new diversion structures on the Provo River below the Murdock diversion to facilitate the purposes of this section.