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Code · STATUTE-COMPILATIONS · Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992 · Sec. 3403

Sec. 3403. DEFINITIONS

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## SEC. 3403 DEFINITIONS As used in this title— ###
(a)the term “**anadromous fish**” means those stocks of salmon (including steelhead), sturgeon, and American shad that ascend the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers and their tributaries and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to reproduce after maturing in San Francisco Bay or the Pacific Ocean; ###
(b)the terms “**artificial propagation**” and “**artificial production**” mean spawning, incubating, hatching, and rearing fish in a hatchery or other facility constructed for fish production; ###
(c)the term “**Central Valley Habitat Joint Venture**” means the association of Federal and State agencies and private parties established for the purpose of developing and implementing the North American Waterfowl Management Plan as it pertains to the Central Valley of California; ###
(d)the terms “**Central Valley Project**” or “**project**” mean all Federal reclamation projects located within or diverting water from or to the watershed of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers and their tributaries as authorized by the Act of August 26, 1937 (50 Stat. 850) and all Acts amendatory or supplemental thereto, including but not limited to the Act of October 17, 1940 (54 Stat. 1198, 1199), Act of December 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 887), Act of October 14, 1949 (63 Stat. 852), Act of September 26, 1950 (64 Stat. 1036), Act of August 27, 1954 (68 Stat. 879), Act of August 12, 1955 (69 Stat. 719), Act of June 3, 1960 (74 Stat. 156), Act of October 23, 1962 (76 Stat. 1173), Act of September 2, 1965 (79 Stat. 615), Act of August 19, 1967 (81 Stat. 167), Act of August 27, 1967 (81 Stat. 173), Act of October 23, 1970 (84 Stat. 1097), Act of September 28, 1976 (90 Stat. 1324) and Act of October 27, 1986 (100 Stat. 3050); ###
(e)the term “**Central Valley Project service area**” means that area of the Central Valley and San Francisco Bay Area where water service has been expressly authorized pursuant to the various feasibility studies and consequent congressional authorizations for the Central Valley Project; ###
(f)the term “**Central Valley Project water**” means all water that is developed, diverted, stored, or delivered by the Secretary in accordance with the statutes authorizing the Central Valley Project and in accordance with the terms and conditions of water rights acquired pursuant to California law; ###
(g)the term “**full cost**” has the meaning given such term in paragraph
(3)of section 202 of the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982; ###
(h)the term “**natural production**” means fish produced to adulthood without direct human intervention in the spawning, rearing, or migration processes; ###
(i)the term “**Reclamation laws**” means the Act of June 17, 1902 (82 Stat. 388) and all Acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto; ###
(j)the term “**Refuge Water Supply Report**” means the report issued by the Mid-Pacific Region of the Bureau of Reclamation of the U.S. Department of the Interior entitled Report on Refuge Water Supply Investigations, Central Valley Hydrologic Basin, California (March 1989); ###
(k)the terms “**repayment contract**” and “**water service contract**” have the same meaning as provided in sections 9(d) and 9(e) of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187, 1195), as amended; ###
(l)the terms “**Restoration Fund**” and “**Fund**” mean the Central Valley Project Restoration Fund established by this title; and, ###
(m)the term “**Secretary**” means the Secretary of the Interior.
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