Central Arizona Project: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Eighty-eighth Congress, First Session, on S. 1658, a Bill to Authorize, Construct, and Maintain the Central Arizona Project, Arizona-New Mexico, and for Other Purposes ... |
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... question of California's being able to continue its use of Colorado River waters as it has done since , and before , the construction of Hoover Dam . Elementary justice demands that every word and every sentence , every claim and every ...
... question of California's being able to continue its use of Colorado River waters as it has done since , and before , the construction of Hoover Dam . Elementary justice demands that every word and every sentence , every claim and every ...
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... question , if I may . In the statement of the senior Senator from Arizona , on page 5 , I quote : There is no sound reason why this project cannot be considered now . I simply ask my friend from Arizona , Senator Goldwater , if he can ...
... question , if I may . In the statement of the senior Senator from Arizona , on page 5 , I quote : There is no sound reason why this project cannot be considered now . I simply ask my friend from Arizona , Senator Goldwater , if he can ...
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... question of whether there is any authorization is out- side the question . As he pointed out , the chairman has a right 24 CENTRAL ARIZONA PROJECT.
... question of whether there is any authorization is out- side the question . As he pointed out , the chairman has a right 24 CENTRAL ARIZONA PROJECT.
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... question was still in litigation be- fore the Supreme Court . In the updating studies , it was assumed that 1.2 million acre - feet per year would be diverted . This was the same assumption used in the 1947 report . The central Arizona ...
... question was still in litigation be- fore the Supreme Court . In the updating studies , it was assumed that 1.2 million acre - feet per year would be diverted . This was the same assumption used in the 1947 report . The central Arizona ...
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... question most respectfully . From the time any study is made in any department until it finally reaches the Secretary , the assumption is that at different levels , the pros and cons are argued , debated , so that when the Secretary ...
... question most respectfully . From the time any study is made in any department until it finally reaches the Secretary , the assumption is that at different levels , the pros and cons are argued , debated , so that when the Secretary ...
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Page 707 - All patents granted, or preemption or homesteads allowed, shall be subject to any vested and accrued water rights, or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may have been acquired under or recognized by the preceding section.
Page 607 - That nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting or intended to affect or to in any way interfere with the laws of any State or Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder...
Page 707 - ... all surplus water over and above such actual appropriation and use, together with the water of all lakes, rivers, and other sources of water supply upon the public lands, and not navigable, shall remain and be held free for the appropriation and use of the. public for irrigation, mining, and manufacturing purposes subject to existing rights.
Page 249 - Nothing herein shall be construed as interfering with such rights as the States now have, either to the waters within their borders or to adopt such policies and enact such laws as they may deem necessary with respect to the appropriation, control, and use of waters within their borders, except as modified by the Colorado River compact or other interstate agreement.
Page 707 - ... and upon payment of twenty-five cents per acre, to file a declaration under oath with the register and the receiver of the land district in which any desert land is situated, that he intends to reclaim a tract of desert land not exceeding one section, by conducting water upon the same, within the period of three years thereafter...
Page 744 - California, by act of its legislature, shall agree irrevocably and unconditionally with the United States and for the benefit of the States of Arizona...
Page 744 - There is hereby apportioned from the Colorado River System in perpetuity to the Upper Basin and to the Lower Basin, respectively, the exclusive beneficial consumptive use of 7,500,000 acre-feet of^ water per annum, which shall include all water necessary for the supply of any rights which may now exist.
Page 332 - The States of the upper division will not cause the flow of the river at Lee Ferry to be depleted below an aggregate of 75,000,000 acre-feet for any period of 10 consecutive years reckoned in continuing progressive series beginning with the first day of October next succeeding the ratification of this compact.
Page 601 - ... a watershed or area wherein water originates, or an area immediately adjacent thereto which can conveniently be supplied with water therefrom, shall not be deprived by the...
Page 280 - ... shall be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, as of the beginning of the fiscal year in which construction is initiated, on the basis of the computed average interest rate payable by the Treasury upon its outstanding marketable public obligations, which are neither due nor callable for redemption for fifteen years from date of issue.