§ 617. Colorado River Basin; protection and development; dam, reservoir, and incidental works; water, water power, and electrical energy; eminent domain
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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 thereof for reclamation of public lands and other beneficial uses exclusively within the United States, and for the generation of electrical energy as a means of making the project herein authorized a self-supporting and financially solvent undertaking, the Secretary of the Interior subject to the terms of the Colorado River compact hereinafter mentioned in this chapter, 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 and a main canal and appurtenant structures located entirely within the United States connecting the Laguna Dam, or other suitable diversion dam, which the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to construct if deemed necessary or advisable by him upon engineering or economic considerations, with the Imperial and Coachella Valleys in California, the expenditures for said main canal and appurtenant structures to be reimbursable, as provided in the reclamation law, and shall not be paid out of revenues derived from the sale or disposal of water power or electric energy at the dam authorized to be constructed at said Black Canyon or Boulder Canyon, or for water for potable purposes outside of the Imperial and Coachella Valleys:
Provided, however, That no charge shall be made for water for the use, storage, or delivery of water for irrigation or water for potable purposes in the Imperial or Coachella Valleys; also to construct and 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 to acquire by proceedings in eminent domain, or otherwise, all lands, rights-of-way, and other property necessary for said purposes.
(Dec. 21, 1928, ch. 42, § 1, 45 Stat. 1057.)
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- Public Law 116-260Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021
- Public Law 115-270To provide for improvements to the rivers and harbors of the United States, to provide for the conservation and development of water and related resources, to provide for water pollution control activities, and for other purposes.Oct
- Public Law 117-349Hualapai Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2022
U.S. Code
- § 620Upper Colorado River Basin; purpose of development of water resources; initial units; construction of Wayne N. Aspinall unit contingent upon certification; participating projects; Rainbow Bridge National Monument
- § 617Colorado River Basin; protection and development; dam, reservoir, and incidental works; water, water power, and electrical energy; eminent domain
- § 1715nMiscellaneous mortgage insurance
- § 618aReceipts from project; disposition
- § 392aPayment into reclamation fund of receipts from irrigation projects; transfer of power revenues to General Treasury after repayment of construction costs
- § 1524Water furnished from Central Arizona Project
- § 618kDefinitions
- § 619aRenewal contracts for power
- § 1551Construction of Colorado River Basin Act
- § 1552Criteria for long-range operation of reservoirs
- § 620fPowerplant operations
- § 618hTermination of existing lease of Hoover Power Plant; lessees as agents of United States; termination of agency
- § 617hLands capable of irrigation and reclamation by irrigation works; public entry; preferences
- § 618eInterest payments; rate
- § 1600gPriority of laws
- § 1597Construction of provisions of subchapter
- § 615ii to 615zzOmitted
- § 618mEffect on existing laws and States’ rights
- § 618gRegulations; contracts; modification of allotments of energy
- § 617eUses to be made of dam and reservoir; title in whom; leases, regulations; limitation on authority
- § 616aa to 616hhOmitted
- § 620mCompliance with law required in operation of facilities; enforcement of provisions
- § 616 to 616fOmitted
statutes-at-large
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- Public Law 85–900
- Public Law 467
- Public Law 117–349To approve the settlement of water rights claims of the Hualapai Tribe and certain allottees in the State of Arizona, to authorize construction of a water project relating to those water rights claims, and for other purposes
- Public Law 94–579To establish public land policy; to establish guidelines for Its administration; to provide for the management, protection, development, and enhancement of the public lands; and for other purposes
- Public Law 116–260Making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021, providing coronavirus emergency response and relief, and for other purposes
- Public Law 115–270To provide for improvements to the rivers and harbors of the United States, to provide for the conservation and development of water and related resources, to provide for water pollution control activities, and for other purposes
register
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- NoticesNotice of proposed marketing criteria
- Rules and RegulationsNotice of rate order
- NoticesNotice of information collection; request for comment
- NoticesNotice of Proposed Allocation
- NoticesProposed Fiscal Year 2020 Boulder Canyon Project Base Charge and Rates for Electric Service
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- NoticesNotice of public comment period
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- NoticesNotice of proposed fiscal year 2024 Boulder Canyon Project base charge and rates for electric service
- Rules and RegulationsNotice of Availability of a Record of Decision for the Colorado River Water Delivery Agreement—Implementation Agreement, Inadvertent Overrun and Payback Policy, and Related Federal Actions Final Environmental Impact Statement
- NoticesNotice of proposed fiscal year 2026 Boulder Canyon Project base charge and rates for electric service
- NoticesNotice of proposed Boulder Canyon Project formula rates for electric service and proposed fiscal year 2023 base charge and rates
- NoticesNotice of Decision and Notice of Proposal
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- NoticesNotice of information collection; request for comment
statute-compilations
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- Dec. 21, 1928, ch. 42, § 1
- 45 Stat. 1057
- Act Apr. 30, 1947, ch. 46
- 61 Stat. 56
- Pub. L. 98–381, title I, § 103(b)
- 98 Stat. 1334
- Act Aug. 4, 1939, ch. 418, § 18
- Act July 30, 1947, ch. 382
- 61 Stat. 628
- section 613 of this title
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§ 617
Colorado River Basin; protection and development; dam, reservoir, and incidental works; water, water power, and electrical energy; eminent domain
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U.S.C.×31
Fed. Reg.×26
Stat.×22
Stat. Comp.×5
Pub. L.×3
C.F.R.×1
ActDec. 21, 1928, ch. 42, § 1
Stat.45 Stat. 1057
ActAct Apr. 30, 1947, ch. 46
Stat.61 Stat. 56
Pub. L.Pub. L. 98–381, title I, § 103(b)
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