[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 14 (Monday, January 23, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 4499]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-1587]
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San Carlos Indian Irrigation Project (Joint Works) O&M Assessment
Rates, Arizona
AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of rate change.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Indian Affairs is decreasing the San Carlos
Indian Irrigation Project (Joint Works) Operation and Maintenance
assessment rate to $30.00 per assessable acre for the 1995 irrigation
season and subsequent seasons. This is a decrease of $5.00 from the
current rate of $35.00 per assessable acre.
DATES: This rate is effective January 23, 1995.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Project Manager, San Carlos Indian
Irrigation Project (Joint Works), P.O. Box 250, Coolidge, Arizona
85228. Telephone: (602) 723 5439.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The authority to issue this document is
vested in the Secretary of Interior by 5 U.S.C. 301 and the Act of
August 14, 1914 (38 Stat. 583, 25 U.S.C. 385), and has been delegated
to the Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs pursuant to Part 209
Departmental Manual Chapter 8.1 A and Memorandum, from Chief of Staff,
Department of the Interior, to Assistant Secretaries, Heads of Bureau
and Offices, dated January 25, 1994. The assessment rate is based on an
estimate of the cost of normal operation and maintenance of the
irrigation project divided by the project acreage. Normal operation and
maintenance is defined as the cost of all activities involved in
delivering irrigation water, including, but not limited to, labor,
materials, equipment and services for irrigation canals, dams, flow
control gates, pumps and other facilities.
The effective date of the annual assessment rate adjustment is
October 1, 1994. The basic assessment rate was set at $35 for Fiscal
Year 1994. This rate was set with the understanding that the BIA was
implementing Public Law 102-231, which called for divestiture of the
power division at San Carlos Indian Irrigation Project. That
divestiture effort has been terminated and the costs associated with it
have been removed from the assessment rate calculations. Pursuant to
the Act of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 476), and supplementary acts, the
Repayment Contract of June 8, 1931, as amended, between the United
States and San Carlos Irrigation and Drainage District, and in
accordance with applicable provisions of the Order of the Secretary of
the Interior of June 15, 1938, the basic assessment rate for the
operation and maintenance of the Joint Works of the San Carlos
Irrigation Project for Fiscal Year 1995 is hereby fixed at $30 for each
assessable acre of land. The assessment is due and payable on or before
the 15th of May prior to the fiscal year the assessment is for, as
provided in the Act of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 475-476), as implemented
by the Repayment Contract between the United States and the San Carlos
Irrigation and Drainage District (as supplemented on November 12, 1935
and May 29, 1947), and the Secretarial Order defining the Joint,
District and Indian Works of the San Carlos Federal Irrigation Project,
turning over Operation and Maintenance of District Works to the San
Carlos Irrigation and Drainage District.
The Notice Proposing this decrease in the Operation and Maintenance
Assessment Rate for the San Carlos Indian Irrigation Project (Joint
Works) was published on November 16, 1994, 59 FR 59245. The affected
public and interested parties were provided the opportunity to submit
written comments during the 30-day period subsequent to November 16th.
Dated: January 12, 1995.
Ada E. Deer,
Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs.
[FR Doc. 95-1587 Filed 1-20-95; 8:45 am]
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