PLANNING REPORTS-ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS.

SEC. 2003. PLANNING REPORTS-ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS. (a) On the basis of the concluding report and recommendations of the Demonstration Program provided for in section 2002, the Secretary, with respect to the Lake Andes-Wagner Unit and the Marty II Unit, shall comply with the study and reporting requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and regulations issued to implement the provisions thereof. The final reports prepared under this subsection shall be transmitted to the Congress simultaneously with their filing with the Environmental Protection Agency. (b) Each report prepared under subsection (a) shall include a detailed plan providing for the prevention or avoidance of adverse water quality conditions attributable to agricultural drainage water originating from lands to be irrigated by the Unit to which the report pertains. The Secretary shall not recommend that any funds be appropriated for construction of such Unit unless the respective report prepared pursuant to subsection (a) is accompanied by findings by the Secretary of Agriculture, the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency that the Unit to which the report pertains can be constructed, operated and maintained so as to comply with all applicable water quality standards and avoid significant adverse effects to fish and wildlife resulting from the bioaccumulation of selenium. (c) The construction of a Unit may not be undertaken until the final report pertaining to that Unit, and the findings referred to in subsection (b) of this section, have lain before the Congress for not less than one hundred and eighty days and the Congress has appropriated funds for the initiation of construction.