§1541 Allocation of costs; repayment

Summary

When a lower-basin unit or a separate feature of the project is finished, the Secretary must split the total construction cost into ten categories: commercial power; irrigation; municipal and industrial water supply; flood control; navigation; water quality control; recreation; fish and wildlife; replacing Colorado River water used to meet the 1944 Mexican Water Treaty; and any other purposes allowed by Federal reclamation laws. Costs for replacing Colorado River water used for the Mexican Water Treaty (including losses in transit, evaporation from regulatory reservoirs, and losses at the Mexican boundary while transporting, storing, or delivering water) are nonreimbursable. That nonreimbursable share is set pro rata by the ratio of the water needed to meet the Treaty to the total river augmentation under the investigations in subchapter II and any future Congressional authorization. Repayment rules for recreation and fish and wildlife follow the Federal Water Project Recreation Act, except that all separable and joint recreation and fish and wildlife costs for the Dixie project in Utah are nonreimbursable. Costs labeled nonreimbursable cannot be recovered under this chapter.