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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 620e. Cost allocations; Indian lands; report to Congress
Upon completion of each unit, participating project or separable
feature thereof, the Secretary shall allocate the total costs
(excluding any expenditures authorized by section 620g of this
title) of constructing said unit, project or feature to power,
irrigation, municipal water supply, flood control, navigation, or
any other purposes authorized under reclamation law. Allocations of
construction, operation and maintenance costs to authorized
nonreimbursable purposes shall be nonreturnable under the
provisions of this chapter. In the event that the Navajo
participating project is authorized, the costs allocated to
irrigation of Indian-owned tribal or restricted lands within,
under, or served by such project, and beyond the capability of such
lands to repay, shall be determined, and, in recognition of the
fact that assistance to the Navajo Indians is the responsibility of
the entire nation, such costs shall be nonreimbursable. On January
1 of each year the Secretary shall report to the Congress for the
previous fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year 1957, upon the
status of the revenues from, and the cost of, constructing,
operating, and maintaining the Colorado River storage project and
the participating projects. The Secretary's report shall be
prepared to reflect accurately the Federal investment allocated at
that time to power, to irrigation, and to other purposes, the
progress of return and repayment thereon, and the estimated rate of
progress, year by year, in accomplishing full repayment.
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