The Hoover Dam Power and Water Contracts and Related Data: With Introductory Notes |
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... months of the passage of the act , until six of the States , including California , should ratify the agreement . ( 2 ) Section 4 - a required that the State of California agree with the United States irrevocably and unconditionally ...
... months of the passage of the act , until six of the States , including California , should ratify the agreement . ( 2 ) Section 4 - a required that the State of California agree with the United States irrevocably and unconditionally ...
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... months of notice . by the Secretary . Earlier bills had unqualifiedly required the Secre- tary " to give preference to applications made by political subdivi- sions " 15 or had required " preference to applications made by political ...
... months of notice . by the Secretary . Earlier bills had unqualifiedly required the Secre- tary " to give preference to applications made by political subdivi- sions " 15 or had required " preference to applications made by political ...
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... months of the amount of power desired , and for the purchase of which valid contracts satisfactory to the Secretary must be executed . " Power contracted for but not required within a State shall be allocated to the city and the company ...
... months of the amount of power desired , and for the purchase of which valid contracts satisfactory to the Secretary must be executed . " Power contracted for but not required within a State shall be allocated to the city and the company ...
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... months ahead of schedule . Four diversion tunnels had been completed ; the coffer dams were in place and the river had been successfully diverted . Excavation is now under way and it is expected that the pouring of concrete will ...
... months ahead of schedule . Four diversion tunnels had been completed ; the coffer dams were in place and the river had been successfully diverted . Excavation is now under way and it is expected that the pouring of concrete will ...
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... months ahead of schedule . A contract for Boulder City work including street , alley , parking area , and sidewalk grading ; street paving ; street and parking area surfacing ; curbs and gutters ; sidewalks ; sanitary sewers ; and water ...
... months ahead of schedule . A contract for Boulder City work including street , alley , parking area , and sidewalk grading ; street paving ; street and parking area surfacing ; curbs and gutters ; sidewalks ; sanitary sewers ; and water ...
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acre-feet acre-feet of water agree agreement All-American Canal allottee amended Angeles Annual cost appropriation approved aqueduct arbitrators Arizona authorized Black Canyon Boulder Canyon project Boulder Canyon Reservoir Boulder Dam Canyon project act capacity cent centum charge Coachella Valleys Colorado River compact Colorado River Dam Congress construction delivery of water Department of Water determined District of Southern diversion electrical energy energy allocated equipment firm power flood control hereunder Hoover Dam Imperial Irrigation District installed interest Interior kilowatt kilowatt-hours lands lease lessees Los Angeles lower basin ment Metropolitan Water District municipality Nevada obligation operation and maintenance Palo Verde Irrigation paragraph parties hereto period power plant priority purposes RAY LYMAN WILBUR reclamation law regulations reserves the right revenues River Dam fund San Diego second-feet secondary energy Secretary Southern California Edison steam stand-by storage thereof tion United Verde Irrigation District Water and Power
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Page 364 - 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 157 - Act, adequate in his judgment to insure payment of all expenses of operation and maintenance of said works incurred by the United States and the repayment, within...
Page 358 - 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 233 - 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 330 - The representatives of the signatory States have signed this agreement in a single original which shall be deposited in the archives of the Department of State of the United States, and a duly certified copy shall be forwarded to the Governor of each of the signatory States.
Page 347 - 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 258 - 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 213 - 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.
Page 556 - Valleys in California, the expenditures for said main canal and appurtenant structures to be reimbursable, as provided in the reclamation law, and shall not be paid out of revenues derived from the sale or disposal of water power or electric energy at the dam authorized to be constructed at said Black Canyon or Boulder Canyon, or for water for potable purposes outside of the Imperial and Coachella Valleys...
Page 252 - Arizona, and 5. WHEREAS, nothing in this contract shall be construed as affecting the obligations of the United States to Indian tribes, 6. NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows, to wit: DELIVERY OF WATER 7.