The Hoover Dam Power and Water Contracts and Related Data: With Introductory Notes

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1933 - Dams - 674 pages

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Page 380 - In witness whereof the Commissioners have signed this compact in a single original, which shall be deposited in the archives of the Department of State of the United States of America and of which a duly certified copy shall be forwarded to the Governor of each of the signatory States.
Page 414 - States or under its authority, or not, and shall be deemed to be for the benefit of and be available to the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, and the users of water therein or thereunder, by way of suit, defense, or otherwise, in any litigation respecting the waters of the Colorado River or its tributaries.
Page 347 - In witness whereof, the parties hereto have caused this contract to be executed the day and year first above written. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, By RAY LYMAN WILBUR, Secretary of the Interior.
Page 378 - Basin" means those parts of the States of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming within and from which waters naturally drain into the Colorado River System above Lee Ferry, and also all parts of said States located without the drainage area of the Colorado River System which are now or shall hereafter be beneficially served by waters diverted from the System above Lee Ferry. (g) The term "Lower Basin...
Page 603 - 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 283 - No person shall have or be entitled to have the use for any purpose of the water stored as aforesaid except by contract made as herein stated.
Page 397 - 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 308 - Act shall include water uses defined as "domestic" in said Colorado River compact. SEC. 13. (a) The Colorado River compact signed at Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 24, 1922, pursuant to Act of Congress approved August 19, 1921, entitled "An Act to permit a compact or agreement between the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming respecting the disposition and apportionment of the waters of the Colorado River, and for other purposes...
Page 128 - This contract made this 9th day of February, 1944, pursuant to the act of Congress approved June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388), and Acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, all of which Acts are commonly known and referred to as the Reclamation Law, and particularly pursuant to the Act of Congress approved December 21, 1928 (45 Stat. 1057), designated the Boulder Canyon Project Act, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, between The United States of America, hereinafter referred...
Page 263 - No Member of or Delegate to Congress or Resident Commissioner, shall be admitted to any share or part of this contract, or to any benefit that may arise therefrom. Nothing, however, herein contained shall be construed to extend to this contract if made with a corporation for its general benefit.

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