Construction Program

Construction Program (including transfer of funds) For construction and rehabilitation of projects and parts thereof (including power transmission facilities for Bureau of Reclamation use) and for other related activities as authorized by law, to remain available until expended $712,305,000, of which $174,005,000 shall be available for transfers to the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund authorized by section 5 of the Act of April 11, 1956 (43 U.S.C. 620d), and $180,389,000 shall be available for transfers to the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund authorized by section 403 of the Act of September 30, 1968 (43 U.S.C. 1543), and such amounts as may be necessary shall be considered as though advanced to the Colorado River Dam Fund for the Boulder Canyon Project as authorized by the Act of December 21, 1928, as amended: Provided, That of the total appropriated, the amount for program activities which can be financed by the reclamation fund shall be derived from that fund: Provided further, That transfers to the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund and Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund may be increased or decreased by transfers within the overall appropriation under this heading: Provided further, That funds contributed by non-Federal entities for purposes similar to this appropriation shall be available for expenditure for the purposes for which contributed as though specifically appropriated for said purposes, and such funds shall remain available until expended: Provided further, That the final point of discharge for the interceptor drain for the San Luis Unit snail not be determined until development by the Secretary of the Interior and the State of California of a plan, which shall conform with the water quality standards of the State of California as approved by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to minimize any detrimental effect of the San Luis drainage waters: Provided further, That no part of the funds herein approved shall be available for construction or oper-102 STAT. 862ation of facilities to prevent waters of Lake Powell from entering any national monument: Provided further, That of the amount herein appropriated, such amounts as may be necessary shall be available to enable the Secretary of the Interior to continue work on rehabilitating the Velarde Community Ditch Project, New Mexico, in accordance with the Federal Reclamation Laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto) for the purposes of diverting and conveying water to irrigated project lands. The cost of the rehabilitation will be nonreimbursable and constructed features will be turned over to the appropriate entity for operation and maintenance: Provided further, That the funds contained in this Act for the Garrison Diversion Unit, North Dakota, shall be expended only in accordance with the provisions of the Garrison Diversion Unit Reformulation Act of 1986 (Public Law 99–294): Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used to study or construct the Cliff Dam feature of the Central Arizona Project: Provided further, That Plan 6 features of the Central Arizona Project other than Cliff Dam, including (1) water rights and associated lands within the State of Arizona acquired by the Secretary of the Interior through purchase, lease, or exchange, for municipal and industrial purposes, not to exceed 30,000 acre feet; and, (2) such increments of flood control that may be found to be feasible by the Secretary of the Interior at Horseshoe and Bartlett Dams, in consultation and cooperation with the Secretary of the Army and using Corps of Engineers evaluation criteria, developed in conjunction with dam safety modifications and consistent with applicable environmental law, are hereby deemed to constitute a suitable alternative to Orme Dam within the meaning of the Colorado River Basin Project Act (82 Stat. 885; 43 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.): Provided further, That notwithstanding the provisions of the Garrison Diversion Unit Reformulation Act of 1986 (Public Law 99–294), the James River Comprehensive Report on water resource development proposals may be submitted to Congress at a date after September 30, 1988, but not later than September 30, 1989: Provided further, That of the amount appropriated herein, $10,000,000 shall be available for right of way acquisition and construction of the Davis Creek Dam, North Loup Division, Nebraska (authorized by Public Law 92–514), and for preconstruction work on related facilities such as the Fullerton and Elbe canals and laterals and the Kent Diversion Dam, together with $1,000,000 appropriated in Public Law 100–202 but not allocated for the Davis Creek Dam, which shall be in addition to the amount requested by the Secretary of the Interior for continuing work on the North Loup Division, which funds shall remain available until expended, together with funds heretofore or hereafter appropriated, and with which the Secretary of the Interior is directed to award contracts for construction and completion of the Davis Creek Dam and related facilities: Provided further, That $2,000,000 of funds appropriated in this bill shall be available for reconstruction and rehabilitation of failing dikes of the Glendo Reservoir, North Platte Project, Nebraska and Wyoming, to restore area flood protection.