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<br />. <br /> <br />Talking points: Family Farm Alliance's proposed amendments to the Warren Act <br />June 25, 1999 <br /> <br />Issue No.1: Equitably, revenues from the sale of surplus water should be credited to the <br />construction and operation and maintenance charges ofthe Reclamation project utilized in the <br />generation of surplus revenues. <br /> <br />Amendments addressing this issue. <br /> <br />Amend 43 U.S.C. 9 525 as follows: <br /> <br />(a) All monies received by the Secretary as a result of any contract executed pursuant to <br />sections 521, 523 and 524 of this title, whether for the use of surplus capacity, the use of <br />other project facilities or otherwise, shall be credited and applied first to the operation and <br />maintenance costs for the project or the division of a projeet until all such costs have been <br />paid, and then as a credit to construction costs. <br /> <br />Amend 43 U.S.c. 9 526 as follows: <br /> <br />(a) All monies or profits derived from the sale or lease of surplus water under the <br />Warren Act of February 21, 1911,36 Stat. 925, or from the connection of a new project <br />with an existing project shall be credited to the project or the division of the project to <br />which the construction cost has been charged. Except as provided in subsection (b), all <br />monies or profits received as a result of any contract executed pursuant to the Warren Act <br />of February 21,191 I, shall be credited and applied first to the operation and maintenance <br />costs of the project or the division of the project until all such costs in any year have been <br />paid and then credited to the construction costs of the project or the division ofthe <br />proj ect. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />(B) All monies received as the result of the sale of water surplus to all other needs of the <br />project, whether such water became surplus because it was not otherwise storable for project <br />purposes, as the result of infrequent or unmanaged flood flows of short duration, or <br />otherwise, shall be credited and applied first to the operation, maintenance and repair costs <br />for the project or, where the project is divided into divisions, the division of the project until <br />all such costs have been paid, and then to construction charges for the project or division of <br />the project. <br /> <br />. <br />