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[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
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[CITE: 43USC1572]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
           CHAPTER 32A--COLORADO RIVER BASIN SALINITY CONTROL
 
           SUBCHAPTER I--PROGRAMS DOWNSTREAM FROM IMPERIAL DAM
 
Sec. 1572. Canal or canal lining


(a) Authorization of construction

    To assist in meeting salinity control objectives of Minute No. 242 
during an interim period, the Secretary is authorized to construct a new 
concrete-lined canal or, to line the presently unlined portion of the 
Coachella Canal of the Boulder Canyon project, California, from station 
2 plus 26 to the beginning of siphon numbered 7, a length of 
approximately forty-nine miles. The United States shall be entitled to 
temporary use of a quantity of water, for the purpose of meeting the 
salinity control objectives of Minute No. 242, during an interim period, 
equal to the quantity of water conserved by constructing or lining the 
said canal. The interim period shall commence on completion of 
construction or lining said canal and shall end the first year that the 
Secretary delivers main stream Colorado River water to California in an 
amount less than the sum of the quantities requested by (1) the 
California agencies under contracts made pursuant to section 617d of 
this title, and (2) Federal establishments to meet their water rights 
acquired in California in accordance with the Supreme Court decree in 
Arizona against California (376 U.S. 340).

(b) Repayment

    The charges for total construction shall be repayable without 
interest in equal annual installments over a period of forty years 
beginning in the year following completion of construction: Provided, 
That, repayment shall be prorated between the United States and the 
Coachella Valley County Water District, and the Secretary is authorized 
to enter into a repayment contract with Coachella Valley County Water 
District for that purpose. Such contract shall provide that annual 
repayment installments shall be nonreimbursable during the interim 
period, defined in subsection (a) of this section and shall provide that 
after the interim period, said annual repayment installments or portions 
thereof, shall be paid by Coachella Valley County Water District.

(c) Acquisition of private lands

    The Secretary is authorized to acquire by purchase, eminent domain, 
or exchange private lands or interests therein, as may be determined by 
him to be appropriate, within the Imperial Irrigation District on the 
Imperial East Mesa which receive, or which have been granted rights to 
receive, water from Imperial Irrigation District's capacity in the 
Coachella Canal. Costs of such acquisitions shall be nonreimbursable and 
the Secretary shall return such lands to the public domain. The United 
States shall not acquire any water rights by reason of this land 
acquisition.

(d) Credit to Imperial Irrigation District against final payments for 
        relinquished capacity in Coachella Canal

    The Secretary is authorized to credit Imperial Irrigation District 
against its final payments for certain outstanding construction charges 
payable to the United States on account of capacity to be relinquished 
in the Coachella Canal as a result of the canal lining program, all as 
determined by the Secretary: Provided, That, relinquishment of capacity 
shall not affect the established basis for allocating operation and 
maintenance costs of the main All-American Canal to existing 
contractors.

(e) Transfer of lands to Cocopah Tribe of Indians

    The Secretary is authorized and directed to cede the following land 
to the Cocopah Tribe of Indians, subject to rights-of-way for existing 
levees, to be held in trust by the United States for the Cocopah Tribe 
of Indians:
        Township 9 south, range 25 west of the Gila and Salt River 
    meridian, Arizona;
            Section 25: Lots 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23;
            Section 26: Lots 1, 12, 13, 14, and 15;
            Section 27: Lot 3; and all accretion to the above described 
        lands.

The Secretary is authorized and directed to construct three bridges, one 
of which shall be capable of accommodating heavy vehicular traffic, over 
the portion of the bypass drain which crosses the reservation of the 
Cocopah Tribe of Indians. The transfer of lands to the Cocopah Indian 
Reservation and the construction of bridges across the bypass drain 
shall constitute full and complete payment to said tribe for the rights-
of-way required for construction of the bypass drain and electrical 
transmission lines for works authorized by this subchapter.

(Pub. L. 93-320, title I, Sec. 102, June 24, 1974, 88 Stat. 268.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1578 of this title.
