A Bill to Approve a Regional Approach to the Development of the Water Resources of the Pacific Southwest and to Authorize Features of the Initial Pacific Southwest Water Plan

Document: A Bill To approve a regional approach to the development of the water resources of the Pacific Southwest and to authorize features of the Initial Pacific Southwest Water Plan, 1-29-64, page 7contract under which water is provided under the project that there be in effect measures, adequate in the judgment of the Secretary, to control expansion of irrigation from aquifers affecting the contract service area. The Secretary is authorized to require as a condition in any contract under which water is provided under the project that the contractor agree to accept mainstream water in exchange for or in replacement of existing supplies from sources other than the mainstream but no such exchange or replacement shall require a contractor to bear any cost of said exchange or replacement water in excess of the costs that would have been incurred in connection with the continued use by the contractor of its existing supply, nor shall such exchange or replacement otherwise result in economic injury to the contractor. It shall be a condition of the availability of water under the Central Arizona project for the San Carlos Irrigation and Drainage District that the District enter into a new repayment contract with the Secretary, in lieu of the existing repayment contract of June 8, 1931, as amended and supplemented. Such new repayment contract shall provide for repayment, without regard to the repayment provisions of the Act of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 475), and the Acts of June 5, 1934 (48 Stat. 881 and July 14, 1945 (59 State 469), within the basic period specified in section 8(c) of this Act, of all San Carlos project costs determined by the Secretary to be properly allocable for return by the District, including the costs to be repaid by reason of a water supply 7Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 992,910 byte