Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, Colorado: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation ... 84th Congress, 1st Session on S. 300. March 16, 17, and 25, 1955 |
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Page 232 - Subject to the provisions of this compact, water of the Colorado River System may be impounded and used for the generation of electrical power, but such impounding and use shall be subservient to the use and consumption of such water for agricultural and domestic purposes and shall not interfere with or prevent use for such dominant purposes.
Page 73 - The water of every natural stream, not heretofore appropriated, within the state of Colorado, is hereby declared to be the property of the public, and the same is dedicated to the use of the people of the state, subject to appropriation as hereinafter provided.
Page 1 - Interior, acting pursuant to the Federal reclamation laws, Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388), and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto...
Page 88 - Act, as amended ; that any such works or facilities shall be designed, constructed, and operated in such a manner that the present appropriations of water, and in addition thereto prospective uses of water for irrigation and other beneficial...
Page 2 - ... historic, and archeologic objects, and the wildlife on said lands, and to provide for public use and enjoyment of the same and of the water areas created by these...
Page 233 - III (a) There is hereby apportioned from the Colorado River system in perpetuity to the Upper Basin and to the Lower Basin, respectively, the exclusive beneficial consumptive use of 7,500,000 acre-feet of water per annum, which shall include all water necessary for the supply of any rights which may now exist.
Page 230 - Nothing in this compact shall be construed as affecting the obligations of the United States of America to Indian tribes.
Page 3 - ... and to dispose of them to Federal, State, and local governmental agencies by lease, transfer, exchange, or conveyance upon such terms and conditions as will best promote their development and operation in the public interest. All costs incurred pursuant to this section shall be nonreimbursable and nonreturnable.
Page 3 - River and its several tributaries rise within and flow through or from the boundaries between the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming...
Page 124 - Committees of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives and...