lates to a trade secret referred to in section 1905 of title 62 Stat. 791. 18 of the United States Code shall be considered confidential for the purpose of that section, except that such information may be disclosed to other officers or employees concerned with carrying out this Act or when relevant in any proceeding under this Act. Nothing in this section shall authorize the withholding of information by the Secretary or any officer, employee, or agent under his control, from the duly authorized committees of the Congress. ADMINISTRATION development. SEC. 13. (a) The Secretary shall conduct research, Research and testing, development, and training necessary to carry Contracts, etc. out the provisions of this Act. The Secretary is authorized to carry out the provisions of this section by contract, or by grants to individuals, States, and nonprofit institutions. materials, etc. (b) Upon request, the Secretary shall furnish to the Safety of Federal Power Commission any information he has concerning the safety of any materials, operations, devices, or processes relating to the transportation of gas or the operation of pipeline facilities. with other (c) The Secretary is authorized to advise, assist, and Cooperation cooperate with other Federal departments and agencies agencies and State and other interested public and private agencies and persons, in the planning and development of (1) Federal safety standards, and (2) methods for inspecting and testing to determine compliance with Federal safety standards. ANNUAL REPORT President and Contents. SEC. 14. (a) The Secretary shall prepare and submit Report to to the President for transmittal to the Congress on Congress. March 17 of each year a comprehensive report on the administration of this Act for the preceding calendar year. Such report shall include (1) a thorough compilation of the accidents and casualties occurring in such year with a statement of cause whenever investigated and determined by the National Transportation Safety Board; Legislative recommendations. (2) a list of Federal gas pipeline safety standards established or in effect in such year with identification of standards newly established during such year; (3) a summary of the reasons for each waiver granted under section 3(e) during such year; (4) an evaluation of the degree of observance of applicable safety standards for the transportation of gas and pipeline facilities including a list of enforcement actions, and compromises of alleged violations by location and company name; (5) a summary of outstanding problems confronting the administration of this Act in order of priority; (6) an analysis and evaluation of research activities, including the policy implications thereof, completed as a result of Government and private sponsorship and technological progress for safety achieved during such year; (7) a list, with a brief statement of the issues, of completed or pending judicial actions under the Act; (8) the extent to which technical information was disseminated to the scientific community and consumer-oriented information was made available to the public; (9) a compilation of— (A) certifications filed by State agencies (including municipalities) under section 5(a) which were in effect during the preceding calendar year, and (B) certifications filed under section 5(a) which were rejected by the Secretary during the preceding calendar year, together with a summary of the reasons for each such rejection; and (10) a compilation of (A) agreements entered into with State agencies (including municipalities) under section 5(b) which were in effect during the preceding calendar year, and (B) agreements entered into under section 5(b) which were terminated by the Secretary during the preceding calendar year, together with a summary of the reasons for each such termination. (b) The report required by subsection (a) shall contain such recommendations for additional legislation as the Secretary deems necessary to promote cooperation among the several States in the improvement of gas pipeline safety and to strengthen the national gas pipeline safety program. APPROPRIATIONS AUTHORIZED SEC. 15. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act over a period of three fiscal years, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, there is authorized to be appropriated not to exceed $500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969; not to exceed $2,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970; and not to exceed $4,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1971. Approved August 12, 1968. COLORADO RIVER BASIN PROJECT ACT [Extract from] [Public Law No. 90-537, 90th Congress] [S. 1004] An Act to authorize the construction, operation and maintenance of the Colorado River Basin project, and for other purposes. SEC. 102. (a) It is the object of this Act to provide a program for the further comprehensive development of the water resources of the Colorado River Basin and for the provision of additional and adequate water supplies for use in the upper as well as in the lower Colorado River Basin. This program is declared to be for the purposes, among others, of regulating the flow of the Colorado River; controlling floods; improving navigation; providing for the storage and delivery of the waters of the Colorado River for reclamation of lands, including supplemental water supplies, and for municipal, industrial, and other beneficial purposes; improving water quality; providing for basic public outdoor recreation facilities; improving conditions for fish and wildlife, and the generation and sale of electrical power as an incident of the foregoing purposes. (b) It is the policy of the Congress that the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the "Secre 43 USC 617t. tary") shall continue to develop, after consultation with affected States and appropriate Federal agencies, a regional water plan, consistent with the provisions of this Act and with future authorizations, to serve as the framework under which projects in the Colorado River Basin may be coordinated and constructed with proper timing to the end that an adequate supply of water may be made available for such projects, whether heretofore, herein, or hereafter authorized. SEC. 303. (a) The Secretary is authorized and directed to continue to a conclusion appropriate engineering and economic studies and to recommend the most feasible plan for the construction and operation of hydroelectric generating and transmission facilities, the purchase of electrical energy, the purchase of entitlement to electrical plant capacity, or any combination thereof, including participation, operation, or construction by non-Federal entities, for the purpose of supplying the power requirements of the Central Arizona Project and augmenting the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund: Provided, That nothing in this section or in this Act contained shall be construed to authorize the study or construction of any dams on the main stream of the Colorado River between Hoover Dam and Glen Canyon Dam. SEC. 601. (a) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to alter, amend, repeal, modify, or be in conflict with the provisions of the Colorado River Compact (45 Stat. 1057), the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact (63 Stat. 31), the Water Treaty of 1944 with the United Mexican States (Treaty Series 994; 59 Stat. 1219), the decree entered by the Supreme Court of the United States in Arizona against California and others (376 U.S. 340), or, except as otherwise provided herein, the Boulder Canyon Project Act (45 Stat. 1057), the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act (54 Stat. 774; 43 U.S.C. 618a) or the Colorado River Storage Project Act (70 Stat. 105; 43 U.S.C. 620). and agencies, (c) All Federal officers and agencies are directed to Federal officers comply with the applicable provisions of this Act, and compliance. of the laws, treaty, compacts, and decree referred to in subsection (a) of this section, in the storage and release of water from all reservoirs and in the operation and maintenance of all facilities in the Colorado River system under the jurisdiction and supervision of the Secretary, and in the operation and maintenance of all works which may be authorized hereafter for the augmentation of the water supply of the Colorado River system. In the event of failure of any such officer or agency to so comply, any affected State may maintain an action to enforce the provisions of this section in the Supreme Court of the United States and consent is given to the joinder of the United States as a party in such suit or suits, as a defendant or otherwise. SEC. 605. Part I of the Federal Power Act (41 Stat. 1063; 16 U.S.C. 791a-823) shall not be applicable to the reaches of the main stream of the Colorado River between Hoover Dam and Glen Canyon Dam until and unless otherwise provided by Congress. Approved September 30, 1968 (82 Stat. 885-886, 889-890, 899, 901; 43 U.S.C. 1501, 1523 (a), 1551 (a), (c), 1555). WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS ACT [Extract from] [Public Law No. 90-542, 90th Congress] [S. 119] An Act to provide for a National Wild and Scenic Rivers Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- (b) It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States that certain selected rivers of the Nation which, with their immediate environments, possess outstand Scenic Rivers |