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[CITE: 43USC509]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
  CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 
               SUBCHAPTER XI-A--RECLAMATION SAFETY OF DAMS
 
Sec. 509. Authorization of appropriations; report to Congress

    There are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1979 
and ensuing fiscal years such sums as may be necessary and, effective 
October 1, 1983, not to exceed an additional $650,000,000 (October 1, 
1983, price levels), plus or minus such amounts, if any, as may be 
justified by reason of ordinary fluctuations in construction costs as 
indicated by engineering cost indexes applicable to the types of 
construction involved herein, to carry out the provisions of this 
subchapter to remain available until expended if so provided by the 
appropriations Act: Provided, That no funds exceeding $750,000 shall be 
obligated for carrying out actual construction to modify an existing dam 
under authority of this subchapter prior to sixty days (which sixty days 
shall not include days on which either the House of Representatives or 
the Senate is not in session because of an adjournment of more than 
three calendar days to a day certain) from the date that the Secretary 
has transmitted a report on such existing dam to the Congress. The 
report required to be submitted by this section will consist of a 
finding by the Secretary of the Interior to the effect that 
modifications are required to be made to insure the safety of an 
existing dam. Such finding shall be accompanied by a technical report 
containing information on the need for structural modification, the 
corrective action deemed to be required, alternative solutions to 
structural modification that were considered, the estimated cost of 
needed modifications, and environmental impacts if any resulting from 
the implementation of the recommended plan of modification.

(Pub. L. 95-578, Sec. 5, Nov. 2, 1978, 92 Stat. 2471; Pub. L. 98-404, 
Sec. 1(3), Aug. 28, 1984, 98 Stat. 1482.)


                               Amendments

    1984--Pub. L. 98-404 substituted ``and, effective October 1, 1983, 
not to exceed an additional $650,000,000 (October 1, 1983, price 
levels), plus or minus such amounts, if any, as may be justified by 
reason of ordinary fluctuations in construction costs as indicated by 
engineering cost indexes applicable to the types of construction 
involved herein, to carry out the provisions of this subchapter to 
remain available until expended if so provided by the appropriations 
Act: Provided, That no funds exceeding $750,000'' for ``, but not to 
exceed $100,000,000, to carry out the provisions of this subchapter of 
this title to remain available until expended if so provided by the 
appropriations Act: Provided, That no funds''.
