Pub. L. 114-113, div. D, tit. II (as amended)

203.43 U.S.C. 507The Reclamation Safety of Dams Act of 1978 is amended by—(1)striking Construction and inserting Except as provided in section 5B, construction in section 3; and(2)43 U.S.C. 509binserting after section 5A (43 U.S.C. 509a) the following:5B.Notwithstanding section 3, if the Secretary, in her judgment, determines that additional project benefits, including but not limited to additional conservation storage capacity, are necessary and in the interests of the United States and the project and are feasible and not inconsistent with the purposes of this Act, the Secretary is authorized to develop additional project benefits through the construction of new or supplementary works on a project in conjunction with the Secretary’s activities under section 2 of this Act and subject to the conditions described in the feasibility study, provided a cost share agreement related to the additional project benefits is reached among non-Federal and Federal funding participants and the costs associated with developing the additional project benefits are allocated exclusively among beneficiaries of the additional project benefits and repaid consistent with all provisions of Federal Reclamation law (the Act of June 17, 1902, 43 U.S.C. 371 et seq.) and acts supplemental to and amendatory of that Act..