Reclamation Facilities Transfer Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, on S. 620 ... May 23, 1995, Volume 4 |
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acquired lands acre-feet appropriate assets authority BEARD benefits Bureau of Reclamation Burley Irrigation District canals Carlsbad Chairman Choke Canyon Reservoir committee concerns CONG CONGRE CONGRESS THE LIBRARY construction charges contract Corpus Christi DONNELLY Elephant Butte eligible project beneficiaries environmental Facilities Transfer Act Federal Government going Indian interests Interior irrigation projects issues Lake Corpus Christi Lake Texana lamation legislation liability LIBR LIBRA LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ment Minidoka Dam Minidoka Project National negotiations NEPA Nueces River operation and maintenance ownership paid-out Palisades Dam project facilities project sponsors questions RARY Reclamation Act Reclamation Facilities Transfer Reclamation's repaid responsibility RESS revenues Sayre Secretary Senator CAMPBELL Senator CRAIG Senator KYL Senator THOMAS stakeholders STATEMENT Subcommittee taxpayers Thank tion title transfer trans transfer of title transfer title treaties tribal Tribes U.S. SENATOR United water resources water rights water supplies water users ZIGLAR
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Page 22 - That whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized ana acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 22 - That when the payments required by this act are made for the major portion of the lands irrigated from the waters of any of the works herein provided for, then the management and operation of such irrigation works shall pass to the owners of the lands irrigated thereby...
Page 31 - These irrigation works should be built by the National Government. The lands reclaimed by them should be reserved by the Government for actual settlers, and the cost of construction should so far as possible be repaid by the land reclaimed.
Page 24 - Interior through the Bureau of Reclamation, and financed in whole or in part with moneys heretofore or hereafter appropriated or allocated therefor by the Federal Government, shall be covered into the reclamation fund, except in cases where provision has been made by law or contract for the use 3fi-201— (64 .6 of such revenues for the benefit of users of water from such project...
Page 22 - That the right to the use of water acquired under the provisions of this Act shall be appurtenant to the land irrigated, and beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure, and the limit of the right.
Page 22 - That it shall be lawful for any citizen of the United States, or any person of requisite age " who may be entitled to become a citizen, and who has filed his declaration to become such...
Page 30 - Association (NWRA) is a nonprofit federation of associations and individuals dedicated to the conservation, enhancement, and efficient management of our Nation's most precious natural resource, WATER. The NWRA is the oldest and most active national association concerned with water resources policy and development. Its strength is a reflection of the tremendous 'grassroots...
Page 23 - That, whenever any legally organized water users' association or irrigation district shall so request, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to transfer to such water users' association or irrigation district the care, operation, and maintenance of all or any part of the project works, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe.
Page 61 - Agency; the US Fish and Wildlife Service; the National Marine Fisheries Service, and other Federal, state, and local agencies to facilitate his decision on what initial corrective measures are required.
Page 31 - Most of the works contemplated for construction are of national importance, involving interstate questions or the securing of stable, self-supporting communities in the midst of vast tracts of vacant land. The Nation as a whole is of course the gainer by the creation of these homes, adding as they do to the wealth and stability of the country, and furnishing a home market for the products of the East and South.