§620e Cost Allocations; Indian Lands; Report to Congress

Summary

When a unit, participating project, or separable feature is finished, the Secretary must divide the total construction cost (not counting spending allowed by section 620g) among the project’s uses: power, irrigation, municipal water, flood control, navigation, and other authorized reclamation purposes. Any costs assigned to purposes that the law says are nonreimbursable cannot be returned. If the Navajo participating project is authorized, the Secretary must figure the irrigation costs for Indian-owned tribal or restricted lands inside, under, or served by the project that the lands cannot repay; those costs will be treated as nonreimbursable because the nation as a whole is providing that assistance. By January 1 of each year, starting with the fiscal year 1957, the Secretary must send Congress a report for the previous fiscal year on the revenues and the costs of building, operating, and maintaining the Colorado River storage project and its participating projects. The report must show the federal investment split among power, irrigation, and other uses, the progress of return and repayment, and a year-by-year estimate of how fast full repayment will be achieved.