72 Stat. 318. Restriction. Maine. New York and Maryland. Louisiana. Texas. New Mexico. Pennsylvania. New York. Kansas. Indiana. Michigan. California. Hawaii. or economic conditions: Provided further, That the Government shall not be deemed to have entered upon any project for the improvement of any waterway or harbor mentioned in this title until the project for the proposed work shall have been adopted by law: Short Sands section of York Beach, York County, Maine. Streams, river basins, and areas in New York and New Jersey for flood control, major drainage, navigation, channel improvement, and land reclamation, as follows: Hackensack River, Passaic River, Raritan River, Arthur Kill, and Kill Van Kull, including the portions of these river basins in Bergen, Hudson, Essex, Middlesex, Passaic, Union, and Monmouth Counties, New Jersey. Deep Creek, Saint Marys County, Maryland. Mills Creek, Florida. Streams in Seminole County, Florida, draining into the Saint Johns River. Streams in Brevard County, Florida, draining Indian River and adjacent coastal areas including Merritt Island, and the area of Turnbull Hammock in Volusia County. Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, in the interest of protecting Salt San Felipi Creek, Texas, at and in the vicinity of Del Rio, Texas. Rio Grande and tributaries, at and in the vicinity of Fort Hancock, Streams at and in the vicinity of Alamogordo, New Mexico. Missouri River Basin, South Dakota, with reference to utilization of floodwaters stored in authorized reservoirs for purposes of municipal and industrial use and maintenance of natural lake levels. Stump Creek, tributary of North Fork of Mahoning Creek, at Sykesville, Pennsylvania. Little River and Cayuga Creek, at and in the vicinity of Cayuga Island, Niagara County, New York. Bird, Caney, and Verdigris Rivers, Oklahoma and Kansas. Watersheds of the Illinois River, at and in the vicinity of Chicago, Illinois, the Chicago River, Illinois, the Calumet River, Illinois and Indiana, and their tributaries, and any areas in northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana which drain directly into Lake Michigan with respect to flood control and major drainage problems. All streams flowing into Lake Saint Clair and Detroit River in Oakland, Macomb, and Wayne Counties, Michigan. Sacramento River Basin, California, with reference to cost allocation studies for Oroville Dam. Pescadero Creek, California. Soquel Creek, California. San Gregorio Creek and tributaries, California. Redwood Creek, San Mateo, California. Streams at and in the vicinity of San Mateo, California. Streams at and in the vicinity of South San Francisco, California. Pinole Creek, tributary of San Pablo Bay, Contra Costa County, Rogue River, Oregon, in the interest of flood control, navigation, hydroelectric power, irrigation, and allied purposes. Kihei District, Island of Maui, Territory of Hawaii. 72 Stat. 319. SEC. 207. In addition to previous authorizations, there is hereby Appropriation. authorized to be appropriated the sum of $200,000,000 for the prose- Missouri River cution of the comprehensive plan adopted by section 9 (a) of the Act Basin. approved December 22, 1944 (Public Numbered 534, Seventy-eighth Congress), as amended and supplemented by subsequent Acts of Congress, for continuing the works in the Missouri River Basin to be undertaken under said plans by the Secretary of the Interior. 58 Stat. 891. SEC. 208. That for preliminary examinations and surveys author- Survey ized in previous river and harbor and flood control Acts, the Secretary reports. of the Army is hereby directed to cause investigations and reports for flood control and allied purposes, to be prepared under the supervision of the Chief of Engineers in the form of survey reports, and that preliminary examination reports shall no longer be required to be prepared. Szc. 209. Title II may be cited as the "Flood Control Act of 1958”. Short title. TITLE III-WATER SUPPLY Water Supply SEC. 301. (a) It is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress Congressional to recognize the primary responsibilities of the States and local in- policy. terests in developing water supplies for domestic, municipal, industrial, and other purposes and that the Federal Government should participate and cooperate with States and local interests in developing such water supplies in connection with the construction, maintenance, and operation of Federal navigation, flood control, irrigation, or multiple purpose projects. (b) In carrying out the policy set forth in this section, it is hereby storage. provided that storage may be included in any reservoir project surveyed, planned, constructed or to be planned, surveyed and/or constructed by the Corps of Engineers or the Bureau of Reclamation to impound water for present or anticipated future demand or need for municipal or industrial water, and the reasonable value thereof may be taken into account in estimating the economic value of the entire project: Provided, That before construction or modification of Agreement. any project including water supply provisions is initiated, State or local interests shall agree to pay for the cost of such provisions on the basis that all authorized purposes served by the project shall share equitably in the benefits of multiple purpose construction as determined by the Secretary of the Army or the Secretary of the Interior as the case may be: Provided further, That not to exced 30 per Future centum of the total estimated cost of any project may be allocated to demands. anticipated future demands where States or local interests give reasonable assurances that they will contract for the use of storage for anticipated future demands within a period of time which will permit paying out the costs allocated to water supply within the life of the project: And provided further, That the entire amount of the con- Repayment. struction costs, including interest during construction, allocated to water supply shall be repaid within the life of the project but in no event to exceed fifty years after the project is first used for the storage of water for water supply purposes, except that (1) no payment need be made with respect to storage for future water supply until such supply is first used, and (2) no interest shall be charged on such cost until such supply is first used, but in no case shall the interestfree period exceed ten years. The interest rate used for purposes of Interest. computing interest during construction and interest on the unpaid balance shall be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, as of the beginning of the fiscal year in which construction is initiated, on the basis of the computed average interest rate payable by the Treasury upon its outstanding marketable public obligations, which are 36-929 O-79-17 72 Stat. 320. neither due nor callable for redemption for fifteen years from date of issue. The provisions of this subsection insofar as they relate to the Bureau of Reclamation and the Secretary of the Interior shall be alternative to and not a substitute for the provisions of the Reclamation Projects Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187) relating to the same subject. (c) The provisions of this section shall not be construed to modify the provisions of section 1 and section 8 of the Flood Control Act of 1944 (58 Stat. 887), as amended and extended, or the provisions of section 8 of the Reclamation Act of 1902 (32 Stat. 390). (d) Modifications of a reservoir project heretofore authorized, surveyed, planned, or constructed to include storage as provided in subsection (b), which would seriously affect the purposes for which the project was authorized, surveyed, planned, or constructed, or which would involve major structural or operational changes shall be made only upon the approval of Congress as now provided by law. SEC. 302. Title III of this Act may be cited as the "Water Supply Act of 1958". Approved July 3, 1958. To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to amend the repayment contract with the Arch Hurley Conservancy District, Tucumcari project, New Mexico. District, N.Mex. contract. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Arch Hurley of the interior is authorized, upon the concurrence of the Arch Hurley Conservancy Conservancy District, New Mexico, to amend further the repayment Repayment contract dated December 27, 1938, as amended on August 20, 1953, with said District to provide that the construction cost repayment obligation of the District, in the amount agreed to in said contract, as amended, and on which payments of installments are to commence in 1959, may be repaid in accordance with a variable repayment formula which, being based on full repayment within forty years, or as near thereto as is consistent with the adoption and operation of such a formula, permits variance in the required annual payments in the light of economic factors pertinent to the ability of the District to pay: Provided, That any such amendatory contract making provision for the repayment of the District's construction cost repayment obligation in accordance with a variable repayment formula may provide further that for the years 1959 and 1960 the Arch Hurley Conservancy District's annual installments shall each be fixed in the sum of Fixed sum. $30,000. Approved August 14, 1958. (247) Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Interior to conduct studies and render a report on service to Santa Clara, San Benito, Santa Cruz, and Monterey Counties from the Central Valley project, California. Whereas, by the Act of October 14, 1949 (63 Stat. 852), the Secretary of the Interior was authorized and directed to conduct certain investigations, surveys, and studies and render reports thereon, including a study to extend Central Valley project service to Santa Clara, San Benito, and Alameda Counties, California; and Whereas such report has not yet been prepared and submitted; and Whereas the most feasible means of importing water to Santa Clara, San Benito, Santa Cruz, and Monterey Counties from the Central Valley project appears to be by way of the Pacheco Tunnel route: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Central Valley Interior is hereby authorized and directed to conduct the necessary project, Calif. studies and render a report to the Congress on the feasibility of a Report to plan to provide Central Valley project service, by way of the Pacheco Congress. Tunnel route, to lands and municipalities in Santa Clara, San Benito, Santa Cruz, and Monterey Counties: Provided, That said studies shall be conducted only under a contract with the Santa Clara-Alameda-San Benito Water Authority, or other public agencies or agency, pursuant to which said Authority, agencies or agency will pay 50 per centum of the cost thereof. SEC. 2. In conducting the studies authorized herein, the Secretary shall give due consideration to the studies and plans of the California Department of Water Resources and of the Santa Clara-AlamedaSan Benito Water Authority. Approved August 27, 1958. |