Modification of Boulder Canyon Project Act: Hearings Before the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, House of Representatives, Seventy-sixth Congress, Third Session, on H.R. 6629 ... July 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 |
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50-year period acre-feet All-American Canal allocation alternating current amortization amount Angeles Arizona and Nevada bill Boulder Canyon Project Boulder Dam Canyon Project Act CARPENTER cents per kw.-hr CHAIRMAN Colorado River Basin Colorado River compact Colorado River Dam Congress consumer contracts cost DEARMOND DWORSHAK electrical energy excess revenues Federal Government firm energy fixed flood control gentleman going horsepower HORTON HOWARD Imperial Valley interest rate Interior investment irrigation Judge Stone kilowatt Los Angeles lower basin Maximum Demand ment meters Metropolitan Water District month MUNDT MURDOCK of Arizona MURDOCK of Utah Nevada and Arizona O'CONNOR obligations operation paid percent power contractors proposed adjustment act purposes question readjustment reclamation repaid repayment representatives River Dam fund ROBINSON of Utah S. B. ROBINSON SCATTERGOOD schedule SCRUGHAM Secretary southern California Southern California Edison statement THORKELSON tion Treasury United upper basin Water and Power WINTER witness
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Page 69 - Before any money is appropriated for the construction of said dam or power plant, or any construction work done or contracted for, the Secretary of the Interior shall make provision for revenues by contract, in accordance with the provisions of this 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 fifty years from the date of the completion of said works, of all amounts advanced to the...
Page 155 - Act, that the aggregate annual consumptive use (diversions less returns to the river) of water of and from the Colorado River for use in the State of California, including all uses under contracts made under the provisions of...
Page 62 - ... at the end of fifteen years from the date of their execution and every ten years thereafter, there shall be readjustment of the contract, upon the demand of either party thereto, either upward or downward as to price, as the Secretary of the Interior may find to be justified by competitive conditions at distributing points or competitive centers...
Page 154 - Interior shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury, at the close of each fiscal year, the amount of money in the fund in excess of the amount necessary for construction, operation, and maintenance, and payment of interest. Upon receipt of each such certificate the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to charge the fund with the amount so certified as repayment of the advances made under subdivision (b), which amount shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous...
Page 154 - Dam fund" (hereinafter referred to as the "fund"), and to be available, as hereafter provided, only for carrying out the provisions of this act. All revenues received in carrying out the provisions of this act shall be paid into and expenditures shall be made out of the fund, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.
Page 64 - This Act shall be deemed a supplement to the reclamation law, which said reclamation law shall govern the construction, operation, and management of the works herein authorized, except as otherwise herein provided.
Page 39 - After the repayments to the United States of all money advanced with interest, charges shall be on such basis and the revenues derived therefrom shall be kept in a separate fund to be expended within the Colorado River Basin as may hereafter be prescribed by the Congress.
Page 154 - ... Secretary of the Interior deems necessary for carrying out the provisions of this Act, except that the aggregate amount of such advances shall not exceed the sum of $165,000,000. Of this amount the sum of $25,000,000 shall be allocated to flood control and shall be repaid to the United States out of 62i/i per centum of revenues, if any, in excess of the amount necessary to meet periodical payments during the period of amortization, as provided in section 4 of this Act.
Page 156 - 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 154 - ... 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, the Secretary of the Interior, subject to the terms of the Colorado River compact...