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Zeutschel OS7000, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 9,539,040 bytes(b)In the event contracts are entered into for delivery from storage in Navajo Reservoir of water not covered by subsection (a) of this section, such contracts shall be subject to the same provision for sharing of available water supply in the event of shortage as in the case of contracts required to be made pursuant to subparagraph (a) of this section.(c)This section shall not be applicable to the water requirements of the existing Fruitland, Hogback, Cudai, and CambridgeIndian irrigation projects, nor to the water required in connection with the extension of the irrigated acreages of the Fruitland and Hogback Indian irrigation projects in a total amount of approximately eleven thousand acres.SEC. 8. Section 12 of the Act of April 11, 1956 (70 Stat. 105), shall not apply to the works authorized by this Act. Thereare hereby authorized to be appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such funds as may be required to carry out the purposes of this Act, but not to exceed $221,000,000 (January 1958 prices) plus such amounts, if any, as may be required by reason of changes in construction costs as indicated by engineering cost indexes applicable to the types of construction involved therein and, in addition thereto, such sums as may be required to operate and maintain the projects.SEC. 9. The Act of April 11, 1956 (70 Stat. 105), is hereby amended as follows: (i) In section 1, subsection (2), after ‘‘Central Utah (initial phase)’’ delete the colon and insert in lieu thereof a comma; (ii) in section 5, subsection (e) in the phrase ‘‘herein or hereinafter authorized’’ delete the word ‘‘hereinafter’’ and insert in lieu thereof the word ‘‘hereafter’’; (iii) in section 7 in the phrase ‘‘and any contract lawfully entered unto under said Compacts and Acts’’ delete the word ‘‘unto’’ and insert in lieu thereof the word ‘‘into’’.-FINDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE-In recommending that S. 3648, as amended, do pass, the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs summarizes its finding as follows:1.That the Navajo Indian irrigation project and the San Juan-Chama diversion project (initial phase) have economic and engineering feasibility to the extent that justifies their construction, operation, and maintenance as participating projects of the Colorado River storage project authorized by the act of April 11, 1956 (70 Stat. 105).2.That the Navajo Indian irrigation and San Juan-Chama diversion projects will furnish water for irrigation of irrigable and arable lands, municipal, domestic, and industrial uses, provide recreation, fish and wildlife benefits, control silt, and have other beneficial uses.3.That the 2 projects will directly and indirectly benefit more than one-half of the population of the State of New Mexico which by 1970 is expected to exceed 1 million persons.4.That the Navajo Indian irrigation project is a sound and logical development to utilize for irrigation, industrial, and municipal purposes waters of the San Juan River to be stored at Navajo Dam and Reservoir, now under construction and to be completed in 1963