liability accrue against the United States, its officers, agents and/or employees, for any damage, direct or indirect, arising on account of drought, hostile diversion, act of God, or of the public enemy, or other similar cause. Each lessee shall make full and complete written monthly reports as directed by the Secretary, on forms to be supplied by the United States, of all electrical energy generated by it, and the disposition thereof to allottees. Such reports shall be made and delivered to the Director on the third day of the month immediately succeeding the month in which the electrical energy is generated, and the records and data from which such reports are made be accessible to the United States on demand of the Secretary. ΧΙ Any agency receiving a contract for electrical energy equivalent to one hundred thousand (100,000) firm horsepower, or more, may when deemed feasible by the Secretary, from engineering and economic consideration and under general regulations prescribed by him, be required to permit any other agency having contracts for less than the equivalent of twenty-five thousand (25,000) firm horsepower, upon application to the Secretary made within sixty (60) days from the execution of the contract of the agency the use of whose transmission line is applied for, to participate in the benefits and use of any main transmission line constructed or to be constructed by the former for carrying such energy (not exceeding, however, one-fourth (14) the capacity of such line), upon payment by such other agencies of a reasonable share of the cost of construction, operation and maintenance thereof. XII The use is authorized of such public and reserved lands of the United States as may be necessary or convenient for the construction, operation and maintenance of main transmission lines, to transmit electrical energy generated at Hoover Dam, together with the use of such public and reserved lands of the United States as may be designated by the Secretary, from time to time, for camp sites, residences for employees, warehouses and other uses incident to the operation and maintenance of the power plant and incidental works XIII The Secretary, or his representatives, shall at all times have the right of ingress to and egress from all works of the contractors for power or power privileges, for the purpose of inspection, repairs and maintenance of works of the United States, and for all other proper purposes. The Secretary or his representatives shall also have free access at all reasonable times to the books. and records of contractors for power or power privileges, relating to the generation, transmission, and disposition of electrical energy with the right at any time during office hours to make copies of or from the same. XIV All patents, grants, contracts, concessions, leases, permits, licenses, rights of way, or other privileges from the United States or under its authority, necessary or convenient for the use of waters of the Colorado River or its tributaries, or for the generation or transmission of electrical energy generated by means of the waters of said river or its tributaries, whether under the Boulder Dam Project Act, the Federal Water Power Act, or otherwise, shall be upon the express condition and with the express covenant that the rights of the recipients or holders thereof to waters of the river or its tributaries, for the use of which the same are necessary, convenient, or incidental, and the use of the same shall likewise be subject to and controlled by said Colorado River Compact. XV All contracts for purchase of energy available at Hoover Dam shall be made directly with the United States. XVI No contract for electrical energy or for generation of electrical energy shall be of longer duration than fifty (50) years from the date at which such energy is ready for delivery as announced by the Secretary. XVII The holder of any contract for electrical energy not in default thereunder shall be entitled to a renewal thereof upon such terms and conditions as may be authorized or required under the then existing laws and regulation, unless the property of such holder dependent for its usefulness on a continuation of the contract be purchased or acquired and such holder be compensated for damages to its property, used and useful in the transmission and distribution of such electrical energy and not taken, resulting from the termination of the supply. XVIII All contracts shall be subject to these, and such other rules and regulations conforming to the Boulder Canyon Project Act as the Secretary may from time to time promulgate; provided, however, that no right under any contract then existing shall be impaired or obligation thereunder be extended thereby; and provided further that opportunity for hearing shall be afforded such contractors by the Secretary prior to modification or repeal thereof or promulgation of additional regulations. Washington, D. C., April 25, 1930; March 10, 1931; July 1, 1931; November 16, 1931. RAY LYMAN WILBUR, 833942-50-72 [ITEM 97] BOULDER CANYON PROJECT GENERAL REGULATIONS FOR GENERATION AND SALE OF POWER IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE BOULDER CANYON PROJECT ADJUSTMENT ACT 8. Relationship between rates for firm and 21. Adjustment of generating charges for THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR WASHINGTON, May 20, 1941. MR. R. V. L. WRIGHT, Washington, D. C. MY DEAR MR. WRIGHT: Following your recommendation of May 201 have approved and promulgated the attached "General Regulations for Generation and Sale of Power in accordance with Boulder Canyon Project Adjust ment Act". Please transmit copies of the regulations to the interested parties and proceed with the drafting of amendatory energy contracts in accordance with these regulations. Sincerely yours, (Signed) HAROLD L. ICKES, Secretary of the Interior. |