| Irrigation - 1948 - 214 pages
...to which reference should be made. The first is that in proceeding with reclamation work neither the State laws relating to the control, appropriation, use or distribution of water used in irrigation, nor any vested right thereunder shall be interfered with ; and the second is the... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Lands - Irrigation - 1948 - 208 pages
...be noted in this provision of law. The first is that in proceeding with reclamation work neither the State laws relating to the control, appropriation, use, or distribution of water used in irrigation, nor any vested right thereunder shall be interfered with; the second is that the... | |
| United States. Water Resources Policy Commission - Water - 1950 - 808 pages
...rights or property by purchase or condemnation.210 Nothing in the Act may be construed as interfering with state laws relating to the "control, appropriation, use, or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder." m In carrying out the Act's provisions,... | |
| United States. Water Resources Policy Commission - Water - 1950 - 1164 pages
...16 USC 803 (a). On the other hand, the Act may not be construed as affecting rights acquired under state laws relating to the "control, appropriation, use, or distribution of water used in irrigation or for municipal or other uses, or any vested right acquired therein." w Otherwise,... | |
| United States. Water Resources Policy Commission - Hydraulic engineering - 1950 - 548 pages
...carrying out of its provisions. Congress directed him, in carrying out the act, to proceed in conformity with State laws relating to the control, appropriation, use, or distribution of water used in irrigation, and expressly provided that nothing in the act shall be construed as affecting... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs Committee - 1958 - 24 pages
...this section overrides all other sections of the Act, requiring that it be construed as not affecting state laws "relating to the control, appropriation, use or distribution of water used in irrigation." Turning to state law, the court by applying a "trust theory" held that the Federal... | |
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