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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Government projeet. No irrigation system, district, association, corporarion, or individual so <br />eontracting shall make any charge for the storage, carriage, or delivery of sueh water in exeess <br />of the charge paid to the United States or organization except ro such extent as may be <br />reasonably necessary to cover cost of carriage and delivery of such water through their works. <br /> <br />Explanation and justification of the amendments. <br /> <br />Under current law, the Bureau of Reclamation is solely responsible for determinations <br />regarding compatibility with project purposes and the appropriate eharges for nonprojeet use <br />of project facilities. The amendments change the responsibility for determining the <br />comparibility with project purposes and charges to provide the project beneficiaries with real <br />input into the decisions affecring their projects. Internal and external forces affecting the <br />Bureau of Reclamation have ereated the situation at many Reclamation projeets where the best <br />interests of the efficient operation of the project for project purposes have given way to the <br />Bureau's "new mission" or desires by the Bureau to finance this "new mission" through <br />revenue sehemes detrimental to the affected Reclamation project. Precedent for the <br />proposed cooperative scheme exists in the 1920 Miseellaneous Purposes Act, and other <br />Reclamation laws. <br /> <br />Issue No.3: Excess capacity in Reelamation facilities should be allowed to be used to store or convey <br /> <br />nonproject water for non-irrigations uses. <br /> <br />Amendments addressing this issue. <br /> <br />Amend 43 u.s.e. 9 521 to read as follows. <br /> <br />After addition of new definitions seetion (a): <br /> <br />(b) The Secretary of the Interior in connection with the operations under the reclamation <br />law and the Water Conservation and Utilization Act is hereby authorized to enter into <br />contracts to store, transport, or supply project or nonproject water in or from any project <br />facility, or to contract to store, transport, or supply projeet water in or from any nonproject <br />faeility for irrigation, municipal and industrial purposes, upon such conditions of delivery, <br />use, and payment as he may deem proper including charges levied as contemplated by <br />Subseetion J of the Fact Finders Act (the Second Deficiency Appropriation Aet for 1924; 43 <br />u_s_c. S 526), as amended by this Aet: provided, That the approval of such contract by the <br />operating organization and, if different, the repayment organization, shall have first been <br /> <br />4- <br />