[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 234 (Friday, December 4, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 78348-78349]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-26738]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

[RR04900000, 200R0680R1, RR.17549897.2020000.01]


Notice of Contract Execution Between the Central Utah Water 
Conservancy District (District) and Department of the Interior 
(Interior) for Prepayment of Costs Allocated to Municipal and 
Industrial Water from the Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project, 
Utah County, Utah

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, 
Interior.

ACTION: Notice of contract execution.

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SUMMARY: On October 1, 2020, Block Notice 7A-2 was issued to the 
District for 22,000 acre-feet of Municipal and Industrial water from 
the Utah Lake Drainage Basin Water Delivery System, Bonneville Unit of 
the Central Utah Project. Subsequently, on October 28, 2020, Interior 
and the District entered into a contract for the District to prepay the 
repayment obligation associated with Block Notice 7A-2.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Additional information on matters 
related to this Federal Register notice can be obtained by contacting 
Mr. Lee Baxter, Senior Program Coordinator, Central Utah Project 
Completion Act Office, Department of the Interior, 302 East Lakeview 
Parkway, Provo, Utah 84606; via telephone at (801) 379-1174; or by 
email at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Public Law 102-575, Central Utah Project 
Completion Act, Section 210, as amended through Public Law 104-286, 
stipulates that ``the Secretary shall allow for prepayment of the 
repayment contract between the United States and the Central Utah Water 
Conservancy District (District) dated December 28, 1965, and 
supplemented on November 26, 1985, or any additional or supplemental 
repayment contract providing for repayment of municipal and industrial 
water delivery facilities of the Central Utah Project for which 
repayment is provided pursuant to such contract, under terms and 
conditions

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similar to those contained in the supplemental contract that provided 
for the prepayment of the Jordan Aqueduct dated October 28, 1993. The 
prepayment may be provided in several installments to reflect 
substantial completion of the delivery facilities being prepaid and may 
not be adjusted on the basis of the type of prepayment financing 
utilized by the District.''
    In accordance with Public Law 102-575, the District prepaid the 
municipal and industrial repayment obligation associated with Block 
Notice 7A-2 from the Utah Lake Drainage Basin Water Delivery System, a 
component of the Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project. The terms 
of the prepayment were publicly negotiated between the District and 
Interior on September 23, 2020.

Reed R. Murray,
Program Director,Central Utah Project Completion Act Office, Department 
of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 2020-26738 Filed 12-3-20; 8:45 am]
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