The Central Arizona Project: Hearings Before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Eighty-second Congress, Fisrt Session on H. R. 1500 and H. R. 1501, Authorizing the Construction, Operation and Maintenance of a Dam and Incidental Works in the Main Stream of the Colorado River at Bridge Canyon, Together with Certain Appurtenant Dams and Canals, and for Other Purposes, Part 1 |
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acre-feet acre-feet of water acre-foot acreage acres agricultural All-American Canal allocated amount aqueduct authorized benefits bill BIMSON Boulder Canyon Project Bridge Canyon Dam Bureau of Reclamation California canal CARSON central Arizona project CHAIRMAN Colorado River Basin Colorado River compact Colorado River water committee Congress contract CORBELL County CRAWFORD crops D'EWART DEBLER diversion economic engineering ENGLE estimated farm feasible Federal figures fiscal year 1952 flood control Gila River Glen Canyon Glen Canyon Dam going Hoover Dam Idaho increase interest Interior JACOBS Lee Ferry lower basin MCMULLEN Mexico Montana MORRIS Nevada NIELSEN North Dakota percent Pinal County POULSON power plant present production PROJECT INVESTIGATIONS pumping purpose question reclamation projects repayment Reservoir River project Salt River SAYLOR Secretary Senate statement storage tion UDALL United upper basin Utah Valley water supply water users Wyoming YoRTY
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Page 527 - President by public proclamation shall have so declared, and, further, until the State of California, by act of its legislature, shall agree irrevocably and unconditionally with the United States and for the benefit of the States of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, as an express covenant and in consideration of the passage of this Act...
Page 5 - Nothing herein shall be construed as interfering with such rights as the States now have either to the waters within their borders or to adopt such policies and enact such laws as they may deem necessary with respect to the appropriation, control, and use of waters within their borders, except as modified by the Colorado River compact or other interstate agreement.
Page 5 - There are hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be required to carry out the purposes of this Act. SEC. 14. As used in this Act: The terms "Colorado River Basin,
Page 4 - ... the part of the estimated cost which can properly be allocated to irrigation and probably be repaid by the water users; (4) the part of the estimated cost which can properly be allocated to power and probably be returned to the United States...
Page 496 - Secretary's judgment will produce revenues at least sufficient to cover an appropriate share of the annual operation and maintenance cost and an appropriate share of such fixed charges as the Secretary deems proper, and shall require the payment of said rates each year in advance of delivery of water for said year.
Page 5 - The rights of the United States in or to waters of the Colorado River and its tributaries howsoever claimed or acquired, as well as the rights of those claiming under the United States, shall be subject to and controlled by said Colorado River compact.
Page 3 - That for the purpose of controlling the floods, improving navigation and regulating the flow of the Colorado River, providing for storage and for the delivery of the stored waters thereof for reclamation of public lands and other beneficial uses exclusively within the United States, and for the generation of electrical energy as a means of making the project herein authorized a self-supporting and financially solvent undertaking...
Page 5 - Nothing herein shall be construed as modifying or affecting any of the provisions of the treaty between the United States of America and the United Mexican States signed at Washington, District of Columbia, February 3, 1944, relating to the utilization of the waters of the Colorado River and other rivers as amended and supplemented by the protocol dated November 14, 1944, and the understanding recited in the Senate resolution of April 18, 1945, advising and consenting to ratification thereof.
Page 523 - First, for river regulation, improvement of navigation, and flood control ; second, for irrigation and domestic uses and satisfaction of present perfected rights in pursuance of Article VIII of said Colorado River compact ; and third, for power.
Page 451 - In matters in which the Commission may be called upon to make provision for the joint use of international waters, the following order of preferences shall serve as a guide: 1. Domestic and municipal uses. 2. Agriculture and stock-raising. 3. Electric power. 4. Other industrial uses. 5. Navigation. 6. Fishing and hunting. 7. Any other beneficial uses which may be determined...