43 U.S.C. § 1572 : US Code - Section 1572: Canal or canal lining

Search 43 U.S.C. § 1572 : US Code - Section 1572: Canal or canal lining

(a) Authorization of construction
To assist in meeting salinity control objectives of Minute No.
242 during an interim period, the Secretary is authorized to
construct a new concrete-lined canal or, to line the presently
unlined portion of the Coachella Canal of the Boulder Canyon
project, California, from station 2 plus 26 to the beginning of
siphon numbered 7, a length of approximately forty-nine miles. The
United States shall be entitled to temporary use of a quantity of
water, for the purpose of meeting the salinity control objectives
of Minute No. 242, during an interim period, equal to the quantity
of water conserved by constructing or lining the said canal. The
interim period shall commence on completion of construction or
lining said canal and shall end the first year that the Secretary
delivers main stream Colorado River water to California in an
amount less than the sum of the quantities requested by (1) the
California agencies under contracts made pursuant to section 617d
of this title, and (2) Federal establishments to meet their water
rights acquired in California in accordance with the Supreme Court
decree in Arizona against California (376 U.S. 340).
(b) Repayment
The charges for total construction shall be repayable without
interest in equal annual installments over a period of forty years
beginning in the year following completion of construction:
Provided, That, repayment shall be prorated between the United
States and the Coachella Valley County Water District, and the
Secretary is authorized to enter into a repayment contract with
Coachella Valley County Water District for that purpose. Such
contract shall provide that annual repayment installments shall be
nonreimbursable during the interim period, defined in subsection
(a) of this section and shall provide that after the interim
period, said annual repayment installments or portions thereof,
shall be paid by Coachella Valley County Water District.
(c) Acquisition of private lands
The Secretary is authorized to acquire by purchase, eminent
domain, or exchange private lands or interests therein, as may be
determined by him to be appropriate, within the Imperial Irrigation
District on the Imperial East Mesa which receive, or which have
been granted rights to receive, water from Imperial Irrigation
District's capacity in the Coachella Canal. Costs of such
acquisitions shall be nonreimbursable and the Secretary shall
return such lands to the public domain. The United States shall not
acquire any water rights by reason of this land acquisition.
(d) Credit to Imperial Irrigation District against final payments
for relinquished capacity in Coachella Canal
The Secretary is authorized to credit Imperial Irrigation
District against its final payments for certain outstanding
construction charges payable to the United States on account of
capacity to be relinquished in the Coachella Canal as a result of
the canal lining program, all as determined by the Secretary:
Provided, That, relinquishment of capacity shall not affect the
established basis for allocating operation and maintenance costs of
the main All-American Canal to existing contractors.
(e) Transfer of lands to Cocopah Tribe of Indians
The Secretary is authorized and directed to cede the following
land to the Cocopah Tribe of Indians, subject to rights-of-way for
existing levees, to be held in trust by the United States for the
Cocopah Tribe of Indians:
Township 9 south, range 25 west of the Gila and Salt River
meridian, Arizona;
Section 25: Lots 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23;
Section 26: Lots 1, 12, 13, 14, and 15;
Section 27: Lot 3; and all accretion to the above described
lands.
The Secretary is authorized and directed to construct three
bridges, one of which shall be capable of accommodating heavy
vehicular traffic, over the portion of the bypass drain which
crosses the reservation of the Cocopah Tribe of Indians. The
transfer of lands to the Cocopah Indian Reservation and the
construction of bridges across the bypass drain shall constitute
full and complete payment to said tribe for the rights-of-way
required for construction of the bypass drain and electrical
transmission lines for works authorized by this subchapter.