San Juan-Chama Reclamation Project and Navajo Indian Irrigation Project: Hearing, Eighty-sixth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 2352, H.R. 2494, and S. 72, Bills to Authorize the Secretary of the Interior to Construct, Operate and 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. May 20, 1960Committee Serial No. 22. Considers H.R. 2352, H.R. 2494, and S. 72, to authorize the Interior Dept to construct and operate the Navajo Indian irrigation project and the initial stage of the San Juan-Chama project as participating projects of the Colorado River storage project. |
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Page 76 - 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 93 - Present perfected rights to the beneficial use of waters of the Colorado River System are unimpaired by this compact.
Page 4 - 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 101 - 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 163 - ... of the Colorado River compact and the upper Colorado River Basin compact.
Page 202 - Lee Ferry, and also all parts of said States located without the drainage area of the Colorado River system which are now or shall hereafter be beneficially served by waters diverted from the system below Lee Ferry. (h) The term "domestic use...
Page 212 - States or under its authority, or not, and shall be deemed to be for the benefit of and be available to the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, and the users of water therein or thereunder, by way of suit, defense, or otherwise, in any litigation respecting the waters of the Colorado River or its tributaries.
Page 101 - Act, and the Congress does not, by its enactment, construe or interpret any provision of the Colorado River compact, the Upper Colorado River Basin compact, the Boulder Canyon Project Act...
Page 169 - 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.