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Zeutschel OS7000, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 6,665,000Section 3 authorizes the acquisition of off-reservation public lands in the South San Juan division to be included in the project. This arrangement is essential to providing 110,630 acres of irrigable land for the development. 4. Section 4 authorizes capacity in the Navajo project works for municipal and industrial or miscellaneous purposes. Repayment contracts are required in advance of construction or appropriations. Section 5 provides for payment of operation and maintenance charges in accordance with existing law. Provision is made for transfer of operation and maintenance to the Navajo Indian Tribe. SAN JUAN-CHAMA AUTHORIZATION Section 6 authorizes the construction, operation, and maintenance of the initial stage of the San Juan-Chama project for the principal purposes of furnishing supplemental water supplies to approximately 39,300 acres of land in Cerro, Taos, Llano, and Pojoaque tributary irrigation units in the Rio Grande Basin, about 81,600 acres of land in the existing Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, and municipal, domestic, and industrial uses, and providing recreation and fish and wildlife benefits. The average annual diversion of the initial stage is limited to 110,000 acre-feet. The principal engineering works are described. A proviso sets forth stream-gaging details to be agreed upon by the States of New mexico and Texas. The section also authorizes the Secretary to construct certain facilities to provide for additional capacity for the future diversion of a total of 235,000 acre-feet. Section 7 provides a method for sharing shortages in connection with the operation of the Navajo Indian and San Juan-Chama projects. Adequate protection for all authorized diverters is sought by the amendment. Subsection 7(c) provides that the other provisions of section 7 shall not be applicable to the water requirements of the existing Fruitland, Hogback, Cudai, and Cambridge Indian 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 11,000 acres. Subsection 8(a) prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from servicing any preferential water right of the United States or Indian tribe through the facilities created by this act. Subsection 8(b) limits the use of Upper Colorado River Basin compact water in New Mexico and Arizona to the percentage and amount allocated to the two States. Section 9 requires the Secretary of the Interior, in the operation and maintenance of all facilities, to conform where applicable to the provisions of the Colorado River compact, the Upper Colorado River Basin compact, the Boulder Canyon Project Act, the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act, and the treaty with the United Mexican States, in the storage and release of waters from reservoirs in the Colorado River Basin, and provides recourse to the respective States in the event of his failure to do so. Section 10 authorizes appropriations for the construction of the Navajo Irrigation project and the San Juan-Chama diversion projec