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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 620c. Laws governing; irrigation repayment contracts; time for making contract; contracts for municipal water; payment by Indian lands; restricted delivery of water for excess commodity; apportionments of use
Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, in constructing,
operating, and maintaining the units of the Colorado River storage
project and the participating projects listed in section 620 of
this title, the Secretary shall be governed by the Federal
reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts
amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto): Provided, That (a)
irrigation repayment contracts shall be entered into which, except
as otherwise provided for the Paonia and Eden projects, provide for
repayment of the obligation assumed thereunder with respect to any
project contract unit over a period of not more than fifty years
exclusive of any development period authorized by law; (b) prior to
construction of irrigation distribution facilities, repayment
contracts shall be made with an "organization" as defined in
section 485a(g) of this title which has the capacity to levy
assessments upon all taxable real property located within its
boundaries to assist in making repayments, except where a
substantial proportion of the lands to be served are owned by the
United States; (c) contracts relating to municipal water supply may
be made without regard to the limitations of the last sentence of
section 485h(c) of this title; and (d), as to Indian lands within,
under or served by any participating project, payment of
construction costs within the capability of the land to repay shall
be subject to section 386a of title 25: Provided further, That for
a period of ten years from April 11, 1956, no water from any
participating project authorized by this chapter shall be delivered
to any water user for the production on newly irrigated lands of
any basic agricultural commodity, as defined in the Agricultural
Act of 1949 [7 U.S.C. 1421 et seq.], or any amendment thereof, if
the total supply of such commodity for the marketing year in which
the bulk of the crop would normally be marketed is in excess of the
normal supply as defined in section 1301(b)(10) of title 7 unless
the Secretary of Agriculture calls for an increase in production of
such commodity in the interest of national security. All units and
participating projects shall be subject to the apportionments of
the use of water between the Upper and Lower Basins of the Colorado
River and among the States of the Upper Basin fixed in the Colorado
River Compact and the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact,
respectively, and to the terms of the treaty with the United
Mexican States (Treaty Series 994).
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