Pyramid Lake Paiute and Truckee River Settlement Act of 1985: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Public Lands, Reserved Water, and Resource Conservation of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, on S. 1558 ... October 21, 1985 |
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acre-feet additional agreed agreement Amend Article VII bill California and Nevada California-Nevada Interstate Compact Carson River Carson-Truckee Water Conservancy Chairman Cities of Reno Committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY cui-ui District Court diversion effect Endangered Species Act federal government fishery flow interests Interior Lahontan cutthroat trout Lahontan Reservoir Lake Indian Reservation Lake Paiute Tribe Lake Tahoe Lake Tahoe Basin LIBRARY OF CONGRE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS litigation Lower Truckee River Mineral County municipal and industrial negotiations Newlands Project operating criteria Pacific Power Company parties proposed compact Pyramid Lake Indian Pyramid Lake Paiute Pyramid Lake Tribe Reclamation recognized Reno and Sparks Secretary Section 105 Senator WALLOP settlement fund Sierra Pacific Power Stampede Reservoir storage rights Subsection TCID Title Truckee-Carson Irrigation District upstream Walker Lake Walker River Basin Walker River Irrigation Washoe County Washoe Tribe Water Conservancy District water quality water rights water supply water users West Fork West Walker River Wildlife
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Page 66 - Subjecting any property of the United States of America, its agencies or instrumentalities, to the laws of any State to an extent other than the extent to which such laws would apply without regard to this Compact.
Page 167 - IPC is involved in the generation, purchase, transmission, distribution and sale of electric energy in a 20,000-squaremile area, covering 71 cities in southern Idaho and nine in eastern Oregon and serving approximately 440,000 customers.
Page 109 - ... between the two states; to promote interstate comity and to further intergovernmental cooperation; to protect and enhance existing economies; to remove causes of present and future controversies; to permit the orderly integrated and comprehensive development, use, conservation and control of the water within the Lake Tahoe, Truckee River, Carson River and Walker River Basins. ARTICLE II. DEFINITIONS A. The terms "California" and "Nevada" shall mean respectively the State of California and the...
Page 47 - ... provide storage space in Topaz Reservoir as a means of protecting lands in Nevada against flood damage later in the year. 3. The rights of the Walker River Irrigation District to store water of the East Walker River in Bridgeport Reservoir with a storage capacity of 42,000 acre-feet, under part VIII of Decree C-125 and under any other basis of right, and to use such water, are hereby recognized and confirmed, subject to the following : (a) The maximum quantity of water which can be diverted to...
Page 279 - Such consent is given upon the following conditions: "1. A representative of the United States, who shall be appointed by the President of the United States, shall participate in such negotiations and shall make a report to the President and to the Congress of the proceedings of any Compact entered into; and "2.
Page 43 - River down3 stream from said western boundary shall rotate all or any 4 portion of the natural flow of the West Fork of the Carson...
Page 189 - Law 91 of the 81st Congress was passed granting the consent of Congress to the Pecos River Compact. The major purposes of the Compact are set forth under Article 1 of the Compact as follows : "The major purposes of the Compact are to provide for the equitable division and apportionment of the use of the waters of the Pecos River ; to promote interstate comity ; to remove causes of present and future controversies ; to make...
Page 296 - Affecting any rights or powers of the United States of America, its agencies or instrumentalities, in or to the waters of the...
Page 361 - ... to Nevada, California makes available for consumptive use in Nevada, water in the same amounts, at the same times, and in the same places as would have been available for use in Nevada from such Nevada storage projects had California not so stored and used said unused water allocated to Nevada ; and provided further that Nevada shall not be deprived of water required for (1) maintenance of a minimum reservoir level for the preservation of fish life and (2) nonconsumptive uses which are found...
Page 408 - Within one hundred and eighty days after the filing of an application under this subsection, or such additional period as may be agreed upon by the Secretary and the applicant, the Secretary shall either— (1...