7 1. 2 3 4 5 6 cated to the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund under section 501 (b) 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. (c) Costs of construction of each unit or separable fea7 ture thereof allocated to the Upper Basin and to the Lower 8 Basin under section 501 (b) of this Act shall be repaid 9 within a fifty-year period without interest from the date such 10 unit or separable feature thereof is determined by the Secre11 tary to be in operation. 12 SEC. 502. (a) Costs of construction, operation, mainte13 nance, and replacement of each unit or separable feature 14 thereof allocated for repayment by the Lower Basin under 15 section 501 (b) of this Act shall be paid in accordance with 16 subsection (b) of this section, from the Lower Colorado 17 River Basin Development Fund. 18 (b) Section 403 (g) of the Colorado River Basin Project 19 Act (82 Stat. 896) is hereby amended as follows: strike the 20 word "and" after the word "Act" in line 8; insert after the 21 word "Act" the following: "(2) for repayment to the Gen22 eral Fund of the Treasury the costs of each salinity control 23 unit or separable feature thereof payable from the Lower 24 Colorado River Basin Development Fund in accordance with 25 sections 501 (b), 501 (c), and 502 (a) of the Colorado River 8 1 Basin Salinity Control Act of 1973, and"; change paragraphı 2 (2) to paragraph (3). 3 SEC. 503. (a) Costs of construction, operation, main4 tenance, and replacement of each unit or separable feature 5 thereof allocated for repayment by the upper basin under 6 section 501 (b) of this Act shall be paid in accordance with 7 subsection (b) of this section, from the Upper Colorado River 8 Basin Fund within the limit of the funds made available 9 under section 504 of this Act. 10 11 (b) Section 5(d) of the Colorado River Storage Act (70 Stat. 108) is hereby amended as follows: strike the 12 word "and" at the end of paragraph (3); strike the period 13 after the word "years" at the end of paragraph (4) and 14 insert a semicolon in lieu thereof followed by the word "and"; add a new paragraph (5) reading: 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 "(5) the costs of each salinity control unit or separable feature thereof payable from the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund in accordance with sections 501 (b), 501 (c) and 503 (a) of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act of 1973.” SEC. 504. The Secretary is authorized to make upward 22 adjustments in rates charged for electrical energy under all 23 contracts administered by the Secretary under the Colorado 24 River Storage Project Act (70 Stat. 105; 43 U.S.C. 620) 25 as soon as practicable and to the extent necessary to cover 9 1 the costs of construction, operation, maintenance, and re2 placement of units allocated under section 501 (b) and in 3 conformity with section 501 (c) of this Act: Provided, 4 That revenues derived from said rate adjustments shall be 5 available solely for the construction, operation, maintenance, 6 and replacement of salinity control units in the Colorado 7 River Basin herein authorized. 8 9 14 TITLE VI-GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 601. Commencing on January 1, 1975, and every 10 two years thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to the Presi11 dent, the Congress, and the Advisory Council created in sec12 tion 401 (a) of this Act a report on the Colorado River salin13 ity control program authorized by this Act covering the progress of investigations, planning, and construction of salinity 15 control units for the previous fiscal year, the effectiveness of 16 such units, anticipated work needed to be accomplished in the 17 future to meet the objective of this Act with emphasis on the 18 needs during the five years immediately following the date of 19 each report, and any special problems that may be impeding 20 progress in attaining an effective salinity control program. Said report may be included in the biennial report on the. quality of water of the Colorado River Basin prepared by 23 the Secretary pursuant to section 15 of the Colorado River 24 Storage Project Act (70 Stat. 111; 43 U.S.C. 602n), section 15 of the Navajo Indian irrigation project, and the initial 21 22 25 10 1 stage of the San Juan-Chama Project Act (76 Stat. 102), 2 and section 6 of the Fryinpan-Arkansas Project Act (76 3 Stat. 393). 4 SEC. 602. Except as provided in sections 502 (b) and 5 503 (b) of this Act with respect to the Colorado River Stor6 age Project Act and the Colorado River Basin Project Act, 7 nothing in this Act shall be construed to alter, amend, repeal, 8 modify, interpret, or be in conflict with the provisions of the 9 Colorado River compact (45 Stat. 1057), the Upper Col10 orado River Basin compact (63 Stat. 31), the Water 11 Treaty of 1944 with the United Mexican States (Treaty 12 Series 994; 59 Stat. 1219), the decree entered by the 13 Supreme Court of the United States in Arizona against Cali14 fornia and others (376 U.S. 340), the Boulder Canyon Proj15 ect Act (45 Stat. 1057), Boulder Canyon Project Adjust16 ment Act (54 Stat. 774; 43 U.S.C. 618a), section 15 of the 17 Colorado River Storage Project Act (70 Stat. 111; 43 18 U.S.C. 620n), the Colorado River Basin Project Act 19 (82 Stat. 885), section 6 of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Proj20 ect Act (76 Stat. 393), and section 15 of the Navajo 21 Indian Irrigation Project and initial stage of the San Juan 22 Chama Project Act (76 Stat. 102). 2 23 24 25 SEC. 603. As used in this Act (a) all terms that are defined in the Colorado River compact shall have the meanings therein defined; |