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(i) benefits to be derived in each basin from the

use of water of improved quality and the use of works

for improved water management;

(ii) causes of salinity; and

(iii) availability of revenues in the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund and increased revenues

to the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund made available under section 305 (d) of this Act: Provided, That costs allocated to the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund under section 205 (a) (2) of this Act shall not exceed

15 per centum of the costs allocated to the Upper

Colorado River Basin Fund and the Lower Colorado

River Basin Development Fund.

(3) Costs of construction of each unit or separable fea15 ture thereof allocated to the upper basin and to the lower 16 basin under section 205 (a) (2) of this Act shall be repaid 17 within a fifty-year period without interest from the date such 18 unit or separable feature thereof is determined by the Sec19 retary to be in operation.

20 (b) (1) Costs of construction, operation, maintenance, 21 and replacement of each unit or separable feature thereof 22 allocated for repayment by the lower basin under section 23 205 (a) (2) of this Act shall be paid in accordance with 24 subsection (2) of this section, from the Lower Colorado 25 River Basin Development Fund.

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1 (2) Section 403 (g) of the Colorado River Basin Project 2 Act (82 Stat. 896) is hereby amended as follows: strike the 3 word "and" after the word "Act" in line 8; insert after the 4 word "Act" the following: "(2) for repayment to the gen5 eral fund of the Treasury the costs of each salinity control 6 unit or separable feature thereof payable from the Lower 7 Colorado River Basin Development Fund in accordance with 8 sections 205 (a) (2), 205 (a) (3), and 205 (b) (1) of the 9 Colorado River Salinity Control Act and"; change para10 graph (2) to paragraph (3)

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(c) Costs of construction, operation, maintenance, and 12 replacement of each unit or separable feature thereof al13 located for repayment by the upper basin under section 14 205 (a) (2) of this Act shall be paid in accordance with 15 section 205 (d) of this Act, from the Upper Colorado River 16 Basin Fund within the limit of the funds made available under 17 section 205 (e) of this Act.

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(d) Section 5 (d) of the Colorado River Storage Act (70 Stat. 108) is hereby amended as follows: strike the 20 word "and" at the end of paragraph (3); strike the period 21 after the word "years" at the end of paragraph (4) and 22 insert a semicolon in lieu thereof followed by the word "and"; 23 add a new paragraph (5) reading:

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(e) The Secretary is authorized to make upward adjust5 ments in rates charged for electrical energy under all con6 tracts administered by the Secretary under the Colorado 7 River Storage Project Act (70 Stat. 105; 43 U.S.C. 620) 8 as soon as practicable and to the extent necessary to cover 9 the costs of construction, operation, maintenance, and re10 placement of units allocated under section 205 (a) (2) and 11 in conformity with section 205 (a) (3) of this Act: Pro12 vided, That revenues derived from said rate adjustments 13 shall be available solely for the construction, operation, main14 tenance, and replacement of salinity control units in the 15 Colorado River Basin herein authorized.

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SEC. 206. Commencing on January 1, 1975, and every 17 two years thereafter, the Secretary shall submit, simulta18 neously, to the President, the Congress, and the Advisory 19 Council created in section 204 (a) of this Act a report on 20 the Colorado River salinity control program authorized by 21 this Act covering the progress of investigations, planning, 22 and construction of salinity control units for the previous 23 fiscal year, the effectiveness of such units, anticipated work 24 needed to be accomplished in the future to meet the objec25 tives of this Act with emphasis on the needs during the

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1 five years immediately following the date of each report, 2 and any special problems that may be impeding progress in 3 attaining an effective salinity control program. Said report 4 may be included in the biennial report on the quality of water 5 of the Colorado River Basin prepared by the Secretary 6 pursuant to section 15 of the Colorado River Storage Proj7 ect Act (70 Stat. 111; 43 U.S.C. 602n), section 15 of 8 the Navajo Indian irrigation project, and the initial stage 9 of the San Juan Chama Project Act (76 Stat. 102), and 10 section 6 of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project Act (76 11 Stat. 393).

12 SEC. 207. Except as provided in section 205 (b) and 13 205 (d) of this Act with respect to the Colorado River Basin 14 Project Act and the Colorado River Storage Project Act, 15 respectively, nothing in this Act shall be construed to alter, 16 amend, repeal, modify, interpret, or be in conflict with the 17 provisions of the Colorado River Compact (45 Stat. 1057), 18 the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact (63 Stat. 31), 19 the Water Treaty of 1944 with the United Mexican States 20 (Treaty Series 994; 59 Stat 1219), the decree entered by 21 the Supreme Court of the United States in Arizona against 22 California and others (376 U.S. 340), the Boulder Canyon 23 Project Act (45 Stat. 1057), Boulder Canyon Project Ad24 justment Act (54 Stat. 774; 43 U.S.C. 618a), section 15 25 of the Colorado River Storage Project Act (70 Stat. 111;

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3 ect Act (76 Stat. 393), section 15 of the Navajo Indian 4 irrigation project and initial stage of the San Juan-Chama 5 Project Act (76 Stat. 102), the National Environmental 6 Policy Act of 1969, and the Federal Water Pollution Con7 trol Act, as amended.

8 SEC. 208. (a) The Secretary is authorized to provide 9 for modifications of the projects authorized by this Act as 10 determined to be appropriate for purposes of meeting the 11 objective of this Act. No funds for any such modification 12 shall be expended until the expiration of sixty days after 13 the proposed modification has been submitted to appropriate 14 committees of the Congress, and not then if disapproved by 15 said committees, except that funds may be expended prior 16 to the expiration of such sixty days in any case in which the 17 Congress approves an earlier date by concurrent resolution. 18 The Governors of the Colorado River Basin States shall be 19 notified of these changes.

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(b) The Secretary is hereby authorized to enter into 21 contracts that he deems necessary to carry out the provisions 22 of this Act, in advance of the appropriation of funds therefor. 23 There is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of 24 $121,200,000 for the construction of the works and for other 25 purposes authorized in section 202 of this Act, based on