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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />OfJU0'Ut <br /> <br />Subsection 202(a) Continued <br /> <br />(5) Portions of the McElmo Creek Unit, Colorado, as components of the Dolores <br />Participating Project, Colorado River Storage Project, authorized by Public Law 90.537 and <br />Public Law 84-485, consisting of all measures and all necessary appurtenant and <br />associated works to reduce seepage only from the Towaoc.Highline combined canal, <br />Rocky Ford Laterals, Lone Pine Lateral, and Upper Hermana Lateral, and consisting of <br />measures to replace incidental fish and wildlife values foregone. The Dolores Participating <br />Project shall have salinity control as a project purpose insofar as these specific facilities are <br />concerned: Provided, That the costs of construction and replacement of these specific <br />facilities shall be allocated by the Secretary to salinity control and irrigation only after <br />consultation with the State of Colorado, the Montezuma Valley Irrigation District, Colorado, <br />and the Dolores Water Conservancy District, Colorado: And provided further, That such <br />allocation of costs to salinity control will include only the separable and specific costs of <br />these facilities and will not include any joint costs of any other facilities of the Dolores <br />Participating Project. Repayment of costs allocated to salinity control shall be subject to <br />this Act. Repayment of costs allocated to irrigation shall be subject to the Acts which <br />authorized the Dolores participating project, the Reclamation Act of 1902, and Acts <br />amendatory and supplementary thereto, Prior to initiation of construction of these specific <br />facilities. or a portion thereof, the Secretary shall enter into contracts through which the <br />non-Federal entities owning, operating, and maintaining the water distribution systems, or <br />portions thereof, in the Montezuma Valley, singly or in concert, will assume the obligations <br />specified in subsection (b)(2) relating to the continued operation and maintenance of the <br />unit's facilities. <br /> <br />(6) A basinwide salinity control program that the Secretary, acting through the Bureau of <br />Reclamation, shall implement. The Secretary may carry out the purposes of this paragraph <br />directly, or may make grants, commitments for grants, or advances of funds to non-Federal <br />entities under such terms and conditions as the Secretary may require, Such program shall <br />consist of cost-effective measures and associated works to reduce salinity from saline <br />springs, leaking wells, irrigation sources, industrial sources, erosion of public and private <br />land, or other sources that the Secretary considers appropriate, Such program shall provide <br />for the mitigation of incidental fish and wildlife values that are lost as a result of the <br />measures and associated works, The Secretary shall submit a planning report concerning <br />the program established under this paragraph to the appropriate committees of Congress. <br />The Secretary may not expend funds for any implementation measure under the program <br />established under this paragraph before the expiration of a 30-day period beginning on the <br />date on which the Secretary submits such report. <br /> <br />'''Subsection (6) authority was provided by PL 104-20,... <br /> <br />(b) In implementing the units authorized to be constructed pursuant to subsection (a), the <br />Secretary shall carry out the following directions: <br /> <br />(1) As reports are completed describing final implementation plans for the unit, or any <br />portion thereof, authorized by paragraph (5) of subsection (a), and prior to expenditure of <br />funds for related construction activities, the Secretary shall submit such reports to the <br />appropriate committees of the Congress and to the governors of the Colorado River Basin <br />States, <br /> <br />3 <br />