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Page 36 - An Act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in certain states and territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands...
Page 33 - That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, under such general regulations as he may prescribe, to contract for the storage of water in said reservoir and for the delivery thereof at such points on the river and on said canal as may be agreed upon, for irrigation and domestic uses...
Page 33 - ... no such excess lands so held shall receive water from any project or division if the owners thereof shall refuse to execute valid recordable contracts for the sale of such lands under terms and conditions satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior...
Page 34 - The Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe and enforce rules and regulations conforming with the requirements of the Federal water power act, so far as applicable, respecting maintenance of works in condition of repair adequate for their efficient operation, maintenance of a system of...
Page 35 - Mead, canals and other works, and the storage, diversion, delivery, and use of water for the generation of power, Irrigation, and other uses.
Page 35 - That in the latter case such compact shall be subject to all contracts, if any, made by the Secretary of the Interior under section 5 hereof prior to the date of such approval and consent by Congress.
Page 35 - Interior shall prescribe and enforce rules and regulations conforming with the requirements of the Federal water power act, so far as applicable, respecting maintenance of works in condition of repair adequate for their efficient operation, maintenance of a system of accounting, control of rates and service in the absence of State regulation or interstate agreement...
Page 32 - House resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union for the consideration of the bill (HR ) entitled, etc., and the first reading of the bill shall be dispensed with.
Page 34 - Section 14 hereof, the commission is authorized to issue a new license to the original licensee upon such terms and conditions as may be authorized or required under the then existing laws and regulations...
Page 37 - River compact. (c) Also all patents, grants, contracts, concessions, leases, permits, licenses, rights of way, or other privileges from the United States or under its authority, necessary or convenient for the use of waters of the Colorado River or its tributaries, or for the generation or transmission of electrical energy generated by means of the waters of said river or its tributaries, whether under this Act, the Federal Water Power Act, or otherwise, shall be upon the express condition and with...