Navajo Irrigation: San Juan-Chama Diversion, New Mexico: Hearing, Eighty-sixth Congress, First Session, on S. 72. March 16, 1959 |
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43 million acre-feet 85th Congress acres amendments Animas Animas-La Plata project Arizona exhibit assumption bill Boulder Canyon Project Bureau of Reclamation Chairman Colorado River Basin Colorado River Board Colorado River compact Colorado River storage Colorado River system Committee on Interior construction contracts coordinated report engineer Erickson Glen Canyon Dam hearings Indian Affairs Indian irrigation project initial stage insert Insular Affairs Interior and Insular KEESEE Lake Mead lands Lee Ferry lower basin March Matthew Mexico modified study municipal and industrial Navajo Dam Navajo Indian irrigation Navajo irrigation project Navajo Reservoir Navajo Tribal Council Navajo Tribe normal diversion requirements participating projects presented record referred to follows REYNOLDS Rio Grande Basin Rio Grande compact River storage project San Juan River San Juan-Chama project Secretary Senator ALLOTT Senator ANDERSON Senator KUCHEL statement Subcommittee on Irrigation subsection tion transmountain diversions U.S. Senate United upper basin reservoirs Upper Colorado River water supply
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Page 17 - The States of the upper division will not cause the flow of the river at Lee Ferry to be depleted below an aggregate of 75,000,000 acre-feet for any period of 10 consecutive years reckoned in continuing progressive series beginning with the first day of October next succeeding the ratification of this compact.
Page 41 - Wyoming, as an express covenant and in consideration of the passage of this 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 5 - 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 8 - Maintain the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project and the Initial Stage of the San Juan-Chama Project as Participating Projects of the Colorado River Storage Project and for Other Purposes (July 9 and 10, 1958): statement of Howard W.
Page 41 - In the event of the failure of the Secretary of the Interior to so comply, any State of the Colorado River Basin may maintain an action in the Supreme Court of the United States to enforce the provisions of this section, and consent is given to the joinder of the United States as a party in such suit or suits, as a defendant or otherwise.
Page 4 - 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 4 - Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior in his discretion may transfer to the Navajo Tribe of Indians the care, operation, and maintenance of all or any part of the Navajo Indian irrigation project...
Page 41 - This Act shall not take effect and no authority shall be exercised hereunder and no work shall be begun and no moneys expended on or in connection with the works or structures provided for in this Act, and no water rights shall be claimed or initiated hereunder, and no steps shall be taken by the United States or by others to initiate or perfect any claims to the use of water pertinent to such works or structures unless and until (1) the States of Arizona...
Page 5 - There are hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Page 16 - Utah's legal entitlement of Colorado River water, as set forth in the Colorado River Compact of 1922 and the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact of 1948...