43 U.S.C. § 390h–13 — Authorization of appropriations

(a) In general: Congress may appropriate whatever sums are necessary to carry out sections 390h through 390h–12p. (b) Prerequisite cost-sharing agreement: (1) No construction funds may be appropriated for a project authorized by sections 390h through 390h–39 until: (A) the Secretary or the non-federal project sponsor completes an appraisal investigation and a feasibility study that follows sections 390h–1(b) or 390h–2(c), whichever applies; (B) the Secretary decides the non-federal project sponsor can afford to pay its non-federal share; and (C) the Secretary approves a cost-sharing agreement committing the sponsor to fund its share of construction costs each year. (2) This requirement in (1) does not apply to projects under sections 390h through 390h–39 that already got funds appropriated before January 1, 1996. (c) Congressional notification: Within 30 days after signing a cost-sharing agreement under (b), the Secretary must notify the House Committees on Resources and Appropriations and the Senate Committees on Energy and Natural Resources and Appropriations that the agreement was signed and that the sponsor can afford its share. (d) Ceiling on federal share: (1) Except as (2) allows, the federal share of each individual project under sections 390h through 390h–39 cannot exceed $20,000,000, measured in October 1996 prices. (2)(A) For a project that got construction funds appropriated before January 1, 1996, the federal share instead cannot exceed the "total Federal obligation" amount named for that project in the Bureau of Reclamation's fiscal year 1997 budget justification, as recorded in part 3 of the report of the March 27, 1996 hearing before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development. (B) For the San Gabriel Basin demonstration project under section 390h–12, the federal share instead cannot exceed the amount under (A) for that project plus $6,500,000.