Cal. Water Code § 12648.5

The project for New Melones Reservoir and channel improvement on Stanislaus River is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 453, 87th Congress, and adopted and authorized by the Act of Congress approved October 23, 1962, (Public Law 87-874) at an estimated state cost of one hundred eighty thousand dollars ($180,000).