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I~ t'- o o Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 2577 Making Supplemental Appropriations for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 1985, and for Other Purposes (House Report 99-236) The conferees (at' page 49 of the conference report) agreed to supplemental appropriations for the Bureau of Reclamation for FY 85 as follows: For an additional amount for the ... Bureau of Reclamation ... for the design and construction of the Animas-La Plata project, Colorado and New Me~ico; Buffalo Bill Dam Project, Wyoming; Boulder Canyon, Arizona and Nevada; and the Headgate Rock project, Arizona, to remain available until expended, $14,300,000; of which $1,000,000 shall be available for transfers to the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund ...: Provided further, That none of the funds herein appropriated may be expended to undertake such projects except under terms and conditions acceptable to the Secretary of the Interior as shall be set forth in binding agreements with those non-federal entities desiring to participate in project construction. Each such agreement shall include a statement that the non- federal entities are capable of and willing to participate in project cost-sharing and financing in accordance with terms of the agreement. At such time as the Secretary has executed a formal binding agreement and has determined that the non-federal entities' financing plan demonstrates a reasonable likelihood of the non-federal interest's ability to satisfy the terms and conditions of the agreement, the Secretary shall initiate construction at a project in accordance with such agreement: Provided further, That the funds appropriated herein shall lapse on June 30, 1986, if the agreement required herein for that projects [sic] has not been executed. 318 cr