Pursuant to §§ 46A-1-11 to 46A-1-13, inclusive, construction of a fourteen million dollar Belle Fourche Irrigation Rehabilitation Project as generally described in the report entitled “Analysis of Request for Additional Funding Costs and Priority Summary” dated January 1994, is hereby authorized for the purpose of stabilizing crop and forage production in central western South Dakota to offset the effects of drought conditions which naturally devastate South Dakota’s economic viability.

The Board of Water and Natural Resources may provide financial assistance in amounts not to exceed four million dollars ($4,000,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, to the Belle Fourche Irrigation Rehabilitation Project to provide the nonfederal matching requirements for the project authorized pursuant to P.L. 103-434 as amended to January 1, 1995. No disbursements may be made under the loans authorized by this section unless funds are appropriated by the Legislature in conformance with § 46A-1-61.

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Source: SL 1995, ch 251, § 24.