Colorado River, Ariz., Nev., and Calif: Hearings Before the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, House of Representatives, Seventy-ninth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 5674, a Bill to Amend the Laws Authorizing the Performance of Necessary Protection Work Between the Yuma Project and Boulder Dam by the Bureau of Reclamation. March 19, 1946 |
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44 Stat adjacent to Needles amend the laws ANGELL annually thereafter Arizona and California authorizing the performance bed and water bill to amend BOULDER CITY Boulder Dam Bureau of Reclamation Calif cattails CHAIRMAN Colorado River front COMMITTEE ON RIVERS Congress construction of Boulder Davis Dam December 21 defray the cost dike dredge ending June 30 February 25 Federal irrigation project fiscal year ending flood conditions Imperial Dam indicating on chart intake Irrigation and Reclamation January 21 June 30 jurisdiction Lake Mead lands levee system adjacent maintaining the Colorado moneys MURDOCK necessary protection operating and maintaining otherwise appropriated Palo Verde irrigation Parker Dam performance of necessary project and Boulder project in Arizona provision pumping Reclamation Bureau Reclamation Committee reservoir river bed Rivers and Harbors Santa Fe Railroad Secretary silt conditions situation at Needles STRAUS stream suction dredge tamarac temporary weir thereof tion United Verde irrigation district Yuma Federal irrigation Yuma project
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Page 3 - That 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 3 - State charged with the administration of water rights, together with the Director of the United States Reclamation Service and the Director of the United States Geological Survey, shall cooperate, ex officio : (a) To promote the systematic determination and coordination of the facts as to flow, appropriation, consumption and use of water in the Colorado River Basin, and the interchange of available information in such matters.
Page 10 - Colorado River front work and levee system adjacent to .the Yuma Federal irrigation project in Arizona and California and to defray the cost of other necessary protection works and systems along the Colorado River between said Yuma project and Boulder Dam.
Page 3 - To secure the ascertainment and publication of the annual flow of the Colorado River at Lee Ferry. (c) To perform such other duties as may be assigned by mutual consent of the signatories from time to time.
Page 2 - That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated...
Page 9 - To defray the cost of operating and maintaining the Colorado River front work and levee system adjacent to the Yuma Federal irrigation project in Arizona and California, subject only to section 4 of the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes", approved January 21, 1927 (44 Stat., p.
Page 3 - There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and annually thereafter, the sum of $100,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be spent by the Reclamation Bureau under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior to defray the cost of operating and maintaining the Colorado River front work and levee system adjacent to the Yuma Federal irrigation project in Arizona...
Page 10 - AN ACT To amend the laws authorizing the performance of necessary protection work between the Yuma project and Boulder Dam by the Bureau of Reclamation...
Page 11 - Provided, That the construction, operation, or maintenance of said weir shall not be deemed a recognition of any obligation or liability whatsoever on the part of the United States; and...
Page 11 - Provided further, That any moneys received by the United States as reimbursement in accordance with contracts heretofore entered into under the authority of the Act of December 21, 1928 (45 Stat. 1057), as amended, and ratified by the Act of August 30, 1935 (49 Stat. 1028, 1039), for expenditures made under the authority of this paragraph, shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.