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[FR Doc No: 94-28309]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 

San Carlos Indian Irrigation Project (Joint Works) O&M Assessment 
Rates, Arizona

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior.

ACTION: Notice of Proposed Assessment Rate Change.

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SUMMARY: The BIA is proposing to decrease 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: Comments must be submitted on or before December 16, 1994.

ADDRESSES: Written comments on rate changes should be sent to: 
Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs, Attention: Branch of Irrigation 
and Power, MS#4559-MIB, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1849 ``C'' Street, 
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20240.

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's 
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 labor, materials, equipment and 
services for irrigation canals, dams, flow control gates, pumps and 
other facilities.

DATES: 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.

    Dated: November 7, 1994.
Ada E. Deer,
Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs.
[FR Doc. 94-28309 Filed 11-15-94; 8:45 am]
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