To Amend the Reclamation Project Act of 1939: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation of the Committee on Public Lands, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 1772 ... [et Al.]. March 17, 1947 to April 28, 1947 |
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... increase the reclamation fund itself by income on an area basis . I think the present law is retrogressive in that , for instance , in the Columbia River and in the Snake River , tremendous amounts of water are there , and when all of ...
... increase the reclamation fund itself by income on an area basis . I think the present law is retrogressive in that , for instance , in the Columbia River and in the Snake River , tremendous amounts of water are there , and when all of ...
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... increase materially your reclamation fund from those sources . Now , let me explain . My bill would take that ... increasing flow through the Treasury from the projects already constructed , and those that would be constructed . Mr ...
... increase materially your reclamation fund from those sources . Now , let me explain . My bill would take that ... increasing flow through the Treasury from the projects already constructed , and those that would be constructed . Mr ...
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... increase in cost from $ 25,000,000 , which the irrigators signed up to pay , and the increase in facilities for irrigation going to $ 70,000,000 , make sure that power can cover the difference . By providing a 17 State - wide policy to ...
... increase in cost from $ 25,000,000 , which the irrigators signed up to pay , and the increase in facilities for irrigation going to $ 70,000,000 , make sure that power can cover the difference . By providing a 17 State - wide policy to ...
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... increase the power rate despite a number of existing laws and injunctions laid upon the Department of Interior and Bureau of Reclamation to act in all ways so that electrical energy , generated as an incident to our irrigation operation ...
... increase the power rate despite a number of existing laws and injunctions laid upon the Department of Interior and Bureau of Reclamation to act in all ways so that electrical energy , generated as an incident to our irrigation operation ...
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... increase of 13.6 million . Meanwhile the East and South will have increased from 92.1 million to 147.2 million , an increase of 55.1 million . The increase for the East and South is more than four times that in the West . By 1970 , the ...
... increase of 13.6 million . Meanwhile the East and South will have increased from 92.1 million to 147.2 million , an increase of 55.1 million . The increase for the East and South is more than four times that in the West . By 1970 , the ...
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allocated to irrigation allocated to power amendment amortization amount applied authorized basis Bonneville Bonneville Power Administration Boulder Canyon Project Bureau of Reclamation CARROLL Central Valley project Chairman charges Colorado Colorado-Big Thompson project Columbia Basin Columbia Basin project commercial power Congress Congressman construction costs D'EWART electric farmers feasibility Federal reclamation FERNANDEZ Government Grand Coulee Grand Coulee Dam interest component Interior irrigation costs irrigation district irrigation projects Jones kilowatt-hour legislation Lemke bill ment MURDOCK National Reclamation Association North Dakota pay-out schedule payment percent POULSON power features power investment power rates power revenues present proposed Public Lands question Reclamation Act reclamation fund reclamation law reclamation program Reclamation Project Act repay Rockwell bill salinity control SANBORN SAWYER Secretary section 9 Solicitor's opinion statement STRAUS subsidy tion TIPTON Treasury United WARNE water users West western reclamation
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Page 292 - That all moneys received from the sale and disposal of public lands in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico...
Page 129 - In connection with the operation of any project or division of a project, shall be for such periods, not to exceed forty years, and at such rates as in his judgment will produce power revenues at least sufficient to cover an appropriate share of the annual operation and maintenance cost, interest on an appropriate share of the construction Investment at not less than 3 per centum per annum, and such other fixed charges as the Secretary deems proper: Provided further.
Page 57 - ... the part of the estimated cost which can properly be allocated to irrigation and probably be repaid by the water users; (4) the part of the estimated cost which can properly be allocated to power and probably be returned to the United States...
Page 478 - reclamation fund," to be used in the examination and survey for and the construction and maintenance of irrigation works for the storage, diversion, and development of waters for the reclamation of arid and semi-arid lands in the said States and Territories...
Page 188 - ... subsection C of section 4 of the act of December 5, 1924 (43 Stat. 702; 43 USC 433).
Page 25 - No contract relating to municipal water supply or miscellaneous purposes or to electric power or power privileges shall be made unless, in the judgment of the Secretary, it will not impair the efficiency of the project for irrigation purposes.
Page 1 - Therefore, no commitment can be made concerning the relationship of the foregoing views to the program of the President. Sincerely yours, OSCAR L. CHAPMAN, Under Secretary of the Interior. The CHAIRMAN.
Page 186 - In case of conflicting applications, if any, such conflicts shall be resolved by the said Secretary, after hearing, with due regard to the public interest, and in conformity with the policy expressed in the Federal water power act as to conflicting applications...
Page 35 - It is as right for the National Government to make the streams and rivers of the arid region useful by engineering works for water storage as to make useful the rivers and harbors of the humid region by engineering works of another kind. The storing of the floods in reservoirs at the headwaters of our rivers is but an enlargement of our present policy of river control, under which levees are built on the lower reaches of the same streams.
Page 258 - Provided further, That in said sales or leases preference shall be given to municipalities and other public corporations or agencies; and also to cooperatives and other nonprofit organizations financed in whole or in part by loans made pursuant to the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 and any amendments thereof.