Colorado River Storage Project: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Eighty-third Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 4449, H.R. 4443, and H.R. 4463, to Authorize the Secretary of the Interior to Construct, Operate, and Maintain the Colorado River Storage Project and Participating Projects, and for Other Purposes ... |
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... acre - feet per year . Even the lower figure is enough to provide all the domestic , commercial and industrial water ... acre - feet yearly . The magnitude of these quantities is made especially clear when com- pared with the total use ...
... acre - feet per year . Even the lower figure is enough to provide all the domestic , commercial and industrial water ... acre - feet yearly . The magnitude of these quantities is made especially clear when com- pared with the total use ...
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... ( feet ) Gross storage capacity ( thousand acre - feet ) Maximum reservoir area ( acres ) Annual evaporation ( acre - feet ) Echo Park . Glen Canyon . Flaming Gorge Cross Mountain . Whitewater . Curecanti .. 5,570 6,460 3,700 26,000 ...
... ( feet ) Gross storage capacity ( thousand acre - feet ) Maximum reservoir area ( acres ) Annual evaporation ( acre - feet ) Echo Park . Glen Canyon . Flaming Gorge Cross Mountain . Whitewater . Curecanti .. 5,570 6,460 3,700 26,000 ...
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... feet . It would then have a gross storage capacity of 31,700,000 acre - feet . The exposed reservoir surface is 186,000 acres , and the evaporation is 691,000 acre - feet per year . Again that figure must not be compared with the ...
... feet . It would then have a gross storage capacity of 31,700,000 acre - feet . The exposed reservoir surface is 186,000 acres , and the evaporation is 691,000 acre - feet per year . Again that figure must not be compared with the ...
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... acre - feet , or one - third of the 72 million acre - foot annual allotment to the upper basin . The 12 new participating projects being recommended by the De- partment of the Interior would increase present consumptive uses by an ...
... acre - feet , or one - third of the 72 million acre - foot annual allotment to the upper basin . The 12 new participating projects being recommended by the De- partment of the Interior would increase present consumptive uses by an ...
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... Acres Acres Kilowatts watt - hours Acre - feet Acre - feet Colorado , Utah . Arizona , Utah .. 200,000 1,094 87,000 800,000 4,100 526,000 1,000,000 5 , 194 613,000 40 , 600 Colorado , New Mexico . 9,800 9,000 New Mexico . 47,000 101 ...
... Acres Acres Kilowatts watt - hours Acre - feet Acre - feet Colorado , Utah . Arizona , Utah .. 200,000 1,094 87,000 800,000 4,100 526,000 1,000,000 5 , 194 613,000 40 , 600 Colorado , New Mexico . 9,800 9,000 New Mexico . 47,000 101 ...
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acre-feet acres AHKEAH allocated Arizona ASPINALL authorized bill Bureau of Reclamation central Utah CLYDE Colo Colorado River Basin Colorado River compact Colorado River storage committee Congress construction cost County Curecanti D'EWART DAWSON Denver DEXHEIMER Dinosaur National Monument District Echo Park Echo Park Dam Elephant Butte estimated evaporation farm feasible flow Glen Canyon Gray Canyon Green River Gunnison River HARRISON HOSMER industrial Interior irrigation lands LARSON Lee Ferry lower basin ment Mexico million acre-feet municipal National Park Service Navaho operation participating projects percent power revenues present project and participating proposed Provo question REGAN repayment Rio Grande compact River storage project San Juan San Juan River San Juan-Chama project SAYLOR Secretary Senator WATKINS Shiprock Split Mountain statement studies tion TUDOR United upper basin upper Colorado River water supply water users Wyoming Yampa
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Page 11 - Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Arms Control and Disarmament Act Amendments in 1975".
Page 4 - Interior* under said plans shall be governed by the Federal Reclamation Laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto...
Page 462 - The Director of the National Park Service, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, shall have the supervision, management, and control of this monument as provided in the act of Congress entitled "An act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes", approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat.
Page 720 - Consumptive use" means the use of water by evaporation, plant transpiration or other manner whereby the water is consumed and does not return to its source of supply. In general it is measured by the amount of water diverted less the part thereof which returns to the stream. (k) "Lowest major international dam or reservoir" means the major international dam or reservoir situated farthest downstream.
Page 740 - That any person who shall appropriate, excavate, injure, or destroy any historic or prehistoric ruin or monument, or any object of antiquity, situated on lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States, without the permission of the Secretary of the Department of the Government having jurisdiction over the lands on which said antiquities are situated...
Page 305 - Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be sent by the secretary of the senate to the President of the United States...
Page 7 - Nothing herein shall be construed as modifying or affecting any of the provisions of the treaty between the United States of America and the" United Mexican States signed at Washington, District of Columbia, February 3, 1944, relating to the utilization of the waters of the Colorado River and other rivers as amended and supplemented by the protocol dated November 14, 1944, and the understanding recited in the Senate resolution of April 18, 1945, advising and consenting to ratification thereof.
Page 228 - That is all the questions I have, Mr. Chairman. I would like to yield the balance of my time to my colleague, Mr.
Page 305 - WHEREAS, this desirable development cannot be commenced without the authorization of the Congress of the United States of America ; NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved by the Senate...
Page 4 - River storage project and participating projects shall be treated and accounted for as one project; the capital investment in the commercial power features of said project shall be returnable within a period not exceeding fifty years from the date of completion of such features unless, in the judgment of the Secretary, concurred in by the Federal Power Commission, a longer period is deemed justified ; interest on the unamortized balance of the investment in the commercial power features of the said...