Act, at Boulder Canyon Reservoir, together with the rights, by means thereof, to generate electrical energy from water to be stored in and discharged from said reservoir, under a proposed form submitted by the Secretary of the Interior, a true copy of which is on file with the Secretary of this Board and is hereby ordered to be spread at length upon the minutes of this meeting, to which said contract the said City and the Southern California Edison Company, a corporation, as several and independent lessees, will be parties, and that the President and Secretary of this Board be, and they hereby are, authorized and directed to execute said contract, in substantially the form submitted by the Secretary of the Interior, a true copy of which is on file with the Secretary of this Board as aforesaid, and in the name of this Board, affix the official seal of the Department of Water and Power thereto and deliver the same to the Secretary of the Interior.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution, together with a true copy of the proposed contract submitted by the Secretary of the Interior and on file with the Secretary of this Board, be forthwith transmitted to the City Council or the City of Los Angeles for approval.

SEC. 2. That this ordinance is urgently required for the imediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, in this, that it is urgently necessary for the City of Los Angeles to make immediate provision for a reliable water supply in addition to that which is now or may be obtained from sources in Inyo and Mono Counties in the State of California, and sufficient to meet the future needs of its rapidly increasing population; that the only possible source of such additional water supply is the Colorado River.

That the United States government proposes, under the Boulder Canyon Project Act, to construct a large storage reservoir in Boulder Canyon on the Colorado River from which the City of Los Angeles can obtain such needed additional water supply; also to construct and equip a power plant below said reservoir for generating electrical energy from the water to be stored in and discharged from said reservoir.

That under the terms of said Boulder Canyon Project Act, before any money can be appropriated for the construction of said dam or power plant, or any construction work done or contracted for, the Secretary of the Interior is required to make provision for revenues by contract for delivery of water for irrigation and domestic purposes from said reservoir and for electrical energy or lease of such power plant and of the right, by means thereof, to generate electrical energy from water discharged from said reservoir, adequate to insure payment of all expenses of operation and maintenance of said. works incurred by the United States and repayment, within fifty (50) years from date of completion of said works, of all amounts advanced for the construction thereof with interest.

That the Secretary of the Interior has presented to The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, of which the City of Los Angeles is a member, a form of proposed contract for the delivery to said District from said reservoir of a supply of water to meet the future needs of such District in supplying its member cities with water for domestic purposes, and said Dis

trict proposes to enter into such contract with the Secretary of the Interior for

that purpose.

That the Secretary of the Interior has also presented to the Board of Water and Power Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles a form of proposed contract for a lease of a portion of the units of said power plant, together with the right, by means thereof, to generate electrical energy from water to be stored in and discharged from said reservoir; that the execution of said lease, together with other similar contracts which the Secretary of the Interior proposes to obtain from other parties, is necessary to enable the Secretary of the Interior to secure the necessary appropriation from the Congress of the United States of the funds required for the construction of said dam and power plant. That the Congress of the United States is now in session but will shortly adjourn; that unless said proposed contract of lease between said Board of Water and Power Commissioners, acting for and in behalf of the City of Los Angeles, is executed fortwith, the necessary appropriation for said development work cannot be secured at the present session of Congress, all of which will delay the date of the commencement of said development work and the day of actual delivery of water to said Metropolitan Water District for the use and benefit of its member cities, including the City of Los Angeles.

That the total amount of electrical energy which can be generated at the power plants of the City of Los Angeles is and will be insufficient to meet the needs of that portion of the inhabitants of said city requiring, or to require, electrical energy from such plants for purposes of heat, light and power. That it is urgently necessary for the City of Los Angeles to obtain and have available, as soon as practicable, the electrical energy which can be provided under the aforesaid proposed contract presented by the Secretary of the Interior to said Board of Water and Power Commissioners, to supply said city and its inhabitants with electrical energy.

SEC. 3. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith, be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

SEC. 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance by a unanimous vote and cause the same to be published once in THE Los Angeles DAILY JOURNAL.

I hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was passed by the Council of the City of Los Angeles by the unanimous vote of all the members of said Council present, there being not less than twelve members present at its meeting of April 25, 1930.

Approved this 25th day of April, 1930.

JOHN C. PORTER, Mayor.

ROBT. DOMINGUEZ, City Clerk.

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(1) THIS CONTRACT, made this 26th day of April, nineteen hundred thirty, pursuant to the Act of Congress approved June 17, 1902 (32 Stat., 388), and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, all of which acts are commonly known and referred to as the reclamation law, and particularly pursuant to the Act of Congress approved December 21, 1928 (45 Stat., 1057), designated the Boulder Canyon Project Act, between THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, hereinafter referred to as the United States, acting for this purpose by Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, hereinafter styled the Secretary, and THE METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALI FORNIA, a public corporation, organized and existing under and by virtue of the Laws of the State of California, hereinafter styled the District:

WITNESSETH:

EXPLANATORY RECITALS

(2) WHEREAS, 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 for reclamation of public lands and other beneficial uses exclusively within the United States and for the generation of electrical energy, the Secretary, subject to th terms of the Colorado River Compact, is authorized to construct, operate and maintain a dam and incidental works in the main stream of the Colorado River at Black Canyon or Boulder Canyon, adequate to create a storage reservoir of a capacity of not less than twenty million acre feet of water; also to construct, equip, operate and maintain at or near said dam, or cause to be constructed, a complete plant and incidental structures suitable for the fullest economic development of electrical energy from the water discharged from said reservoir; and

(3) WHEREAS, after full consideration of the advantages of both the Black Canyon and Boulder Canyon dam sites, the Secretary has determined upon Black Canyon as the site of the aforesaid dam, hereinafter styled the Boulder Canyon Dam, and has determined that the revenues provided for by this contract, together with other contracts in accordance with the provisions of the Boulder Canyon Project Act, are adequate in his judgment to insure payment of all expenses of operation and maintenance of the Boulder Canyon Dam and appurtenant works incurred by the United States, and the repayment within fifty (50) years from the date of completion of said works of all amounts advanced to the Colorado River Dam Fund under Subdivision (b) of Section 2 of the Boulder Canyon Project Act, together with interest thereon made reimbursable under said Act; and

(4) WHEREAS, the United States proposes to enter into an agreement with the City of Los Angeles and Southern California Edison Company Ltd., severally (hereinafter referred to as the lessees) for the lease, and the operation

and maintenance of a Government-built power plant to be constructed at Boulder Canyon Dam, together with the right to generate electrical energy a copy of which said proposed lease is attached hereto marked Exhibit "A", and by this reference made a part hereof, wherein the Secretary has reserved the authority to, and in consideration of the execution thereof is authorized by each of the aforesaid lessees, severally, to contract with the other allottees named in the allocation set forth therein for the furnishing of energy to such allottees at transmission voltage in accordance with the allocation to each allottee, and the Secretary is therein granted by each lessee, severally, the power in accordance with the provisions thereof to enforce as against each lessee the rights to be acquired by such other allottees by contracts to be entered into with the United States; and

(5) WHEREAS, the District is desirous of entering into a contract with the United States providing for the delivery to the District each year from the Boulder Canyon Reservoir up to but not to exceed one million fifty thousand (1,050,000) acre-feet of water, and, in connection therewith and incident thereto, the District is desirous also of entering into a contract for the purchase of electrical energy to be generated at the power plant to be leased, as aforesaid, to the City of Los Angeles (hereinafter referred to as the City) and Southern California Edison Company Ltd., (hereinafter referred to as the Company) to aid in the transportation of such water supply;

(6) Now, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows, to-wit:

ALLOCATION OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY

(7) The United States will cause to be delivered to the District under and in pursuance of and subject to the provisions of the aforesaid proposed lease, attached hereto as Exhibit "A", for a period of fifty (50) years from the date at which energy is ready for delivery to the City, as announced by the Secretary, in accordance with the following allocation, to-wit:

Of Firm Energy

A. To the State of Nevada, for use in Nevada, not exceeding eighteen per centum (18%) of said total firm energy.

B. To the State of Arizona, for use in Arizona, not exceeding eighteen per centum (18%) of said total firm energy.

Should either of the States not take its full eighteen per centum (18%) allocation within a period of twenty (20) years hereof, the other may then contract for the energy not so taken up to four per centum (4%) of the total firm energy, provided that the combined amount used by the two states shall not, at any time, exceed thirty-six per centum (36%) of such total firm energy.

C. To the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California so much energy as may be needed and used for pumping Colorado River water into and in its aqueduct for the use of such District within the following limits:

(1) Not exceeding thirty-six per centum (36%) of said total firm energy; plus

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