Volume 86
Public Law 92–370
To increase the authorization for appropriation for continuing work in the Upper Colorado River Basin by the Secretary of the Interior.
Approved August 10, 1972
Statutory text
AN ACT
To increase the authorization for appropriation for continuing work in the Upper Colorado River Basin by the Secretary of the Interior.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That in order to
Upper Colorado’ River Basin.
Appropriation authorization, increase.
provide for completion of construction of the Curecanti, Flaming Gorge, Glen Canyon, and Navajo units, and transmission division of the Colorado River storage, project, and for completion of construction of the following participating projects: Central Utah (initial phase—Bonneville, Jensen, Upalco, and Vernal units), Emery County, Florida, Hammond, La Barge, Lyman, Paonia, Seedskadee, Silt, and Smith Fork; the amount which section 12 of the Act of April 11, 1956 (79 Stat. 105) authorizes to be appropriated is hereby further
increased by the sum of $610,000,000, plus or minus such amounts, if any, as may be required, by reason of changes in construction costs as indicated by engineering cost indexes applicable to the type of construction involved. This additional sum shall be available solely for continuing construction of the previously authorized units and projects named herein.
Approved August 10, 1972.