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Volume 86

Public Law 92–371

To increase the authorization for appropriation for completing work in the Missouri River Basin by the Secretary of the Interior.

Approved August 10, 1972

Statutory text

AN ACT

To increase the authorization for appropriation for completing work in the Missouri 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 there is hereby

Missouri River Basin.

Appropriation authorization, increase.

authorized to be appropriated the sum of $114,000,000 to provide for completion of work in the Missouri River Basin to be undertaken by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant, to the comprehensive plan adopted by section 9(a) of the Act approved December 22, 1944 (Public Law 534, Seventy-eighth Congress), as amended and supplemented by subsequent Acts of Congress, plus or minus such amounts, if any,

58 Stat. 891; 84 Stat. 75.

as may be required by reason of changes in construction costs, as indicated by engineering cost indices applicable to the type of construction involved. No part of the funds hereby authorized to be appropriated shall be available to initiate construction of any unit of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin program, whether or not included in said comprehensive plan; nor for prosecution of Garrison diversion unit, reauthorized by the Act of August 5, 1965 (79 Stat. 433).

Approved August 10, 1972.

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