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43 U.S.C. § 620f — Powerplant operations
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The hydroelectric powerplants and transmission lines authorized by this chapter to be constructed, operated, and maintained by the Secretary shall be operated in conjunction with other Federal powerplants, present and potential, so as to produce the greatest practicable amount of power and energy that can be sold at firm power and energy rates, but in the exercise of the authority hereby granted he shall not affect or interfere with the operation of the provisions of the Colorado River Compact, the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact, the Boulder Canyon Project Act [[43 U.S.C. 617](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section617&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act [[43 U.S.C. 618](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section618&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], and any contract lawfully entered into under said Compacts and Acts. Subject to the provisions of the Colorado River Compact, neither the impounding nor the use of water for the generation of power and energy at the plants of the Colorado River storage project shall preclude or impair the appropriation of water for domestic or agricultural purposes pursuant to applicable State law.
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The hydroelectric powerplants and transmission lines authorized by this chapter to be constructed, operated, and maintained by the Secretary shall be operated in conjunction with other Federal powerplants, present and potential, so as to produce the greatest practicable amount of power and energy that can be sold at firm power and energy rates, but in the exercise of the authority hereby granted he shall not affect or interfere with the operation of the provisions of the Colorado River Compact, the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact, the Boulder Canyon Project Act [[43 U.S.C. 617](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section617&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act [[43 U.S.C. 618](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section618&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], and any contract lawfully entered into under said Compacts and Acts. Subject to the provisions of the Colorado River Compact, neither the impounding nor the use of water for the generation of power and energy at the plants of the Colorado River storage project shall preclude or impair the appropriation of water for domestic or agricultural purposes pursuant to applicable State law.
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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
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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to, and he shall, promulgate charges, or the basis of computation thereof, for electrical energy generated at Hoover Dam beginning June 1, 1937, computed to be sufficient, together with other net revenues from the project, to accomplish the following purposes:
**(a)** To meet the cost of operation and maintenance, and to provide for replacements, of the project beginning June 1, 1937;
**(b)** To repay to the Treasury, with interest, the advances to the Colorado River Dam Fund for the project made prior to June 1, 1937, within fifty years from that date (excluding advances allocated to flood control by [section 617a(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section617a/b&num=0&edition=prelim), which shall be repayable as provided in [section 618f of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section618f&num=0&edition=prelim)), and such advances made on and after June 1, 1937, over fifty-year periods;
**(c)** To provide $600,000 for each of the years and for the purposes specified in [section 618a(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section618a/c&num=0&edition=prelim);
**(d)** To provide $500,000 for each of the years and for the purposes specified in [section 618a(d) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section618a/d&num=0&edition=prelim); and
**(e)** To provide, by application of the increments to rates specified in section 403(c)(2) of the Colorado River Basin Project Act of 1968, as amended and supplemented [[43 U.S.C. 1543(c)(2)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1543/c/2&num=0&edition=p
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The short title of this subchapter shall be “Boulder Canyon Project Act.”
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**(a) Promulgation by Secretary; order of priorities** In order to comply with and carry out the provisions of the Colorado River Compact, the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact, and the Mexican Water Treaty, the Secretary shall propose criteria for the coordinated long-range operation of the reservoirs constructed and operated under the authority of the Colorado River Storage Project Act [[43 U.S.C. 620](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section620&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], the Boulder Canyon Project Act [[43 U.S.C. 617](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section617&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], and the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act [[43 U.S.C. 618](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section618&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.]. To effect in part the purposes expressed in this paragraph, the criteria shall make provision for the storage of water in storage units of the Colorado River storage project and releases of water form Lake Powell in the following listed order of priority:
(1) releases to supply one-half the deficiency described in article III(c) of the Colorado River Compact, if any such deficiency exists and is chargeable to the States of the Upper Division, but in any event such releases, if any, shall not be required in any year that the Secretary makes the determination and issues the proclamation specified in [section 1512 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1512&num=0&edition=prelim);
(2) releases to comply with article III(d) of the Colorado River Compact, less such quantities of water delivered into the Colorado River below Lee Ferry to the credit of the States of the Upper Division
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TITLE 43—PUBLIC LANDS
§ 617
Sec.
618i.
Effective date.
618j.
Effect of refusal to modify existing contracts.
618k.
Definitions.
618l.
Repealed.
618m.
Effect on existing laws and States’ rights.
618n.
Wages of employees.
618o.
Short title.
618p.
Omitted.
SUBCHAPTER III—HOOVER DAM CONTRACTS AND
FACILITIES
619.
Increase in capacity of existing generating
equipment at Hoover Powerplant; construc-
tion of Colorado River bridge crossing.
619a.
Renewal contracts for power.
619b.
Reimbursement of funds advanced by non-
Federal purchasers; uprating program; re-
payment requirement; visitor facilities pro-
gram.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
CONSOLIDATION OF CERTAIN PROJECTS; EFFECT ON THIS
CHAPTER
Act May 28, 1954, ch. 241, 68 Stat. 143, provided that:
‘‘For the purposes of effecting economies and in-
creased efficiency in the construction, operation, and
maintenance thereof and of accounting for the return
of reimbursable costs, the Secretary of the Interior is
authorized and directed to consolidate and administer
as a single project to be known as the Parker-Davis
project, Arizona-California-Nevada, the projects known
as the Parker Dam power project, Arizona-California,
and the Davis Dam project, Arizona-Nevada: Provided,
That nothing in this Act shall be construed to alter or
affect in any way the Boulder Canyon Project Act (45
Stat. 1057) [subchapter I of this chapter], the Boulder
Canyon Project Adjustment Act (54 Stat. 774) [sub-
chapter II of this chapter], or the treaty between the
United States of America and the United Mexican
States, signed at Washington on February 3, 1944, relat-
ing to the utilization of the waters of the Colorado and
Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande from Fort
Quitman, Texas, to th
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TITLE 43—PUBLIC LANDS
§ 618
islature of each of such States and by the Con-
gress of the United States.
(Dec. 21, 1928, ch. 42, § 19, 45 Stat. 1065.)
§ 617s. Recognition of rights of Mexico to Colo-
rado River waters
Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed
as a denial or recognition of any rights, if any,
in Mexico to the use of the waters of the Colo-
rado River system.
(Dec. 21, 1928, ch. 42, § 20, 45 Stat. 1066.)
§ 617t. Short title
The short title of this subchapter shall be
‘‘Boulder Canyon Project Act.’’
(Dec. 21, 1928, ch. 42, § 21, 45 Stat. 1066.)
§ 617u. Lease of reserved lands in Boulder City,
Nevada; disposition of revenues
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and
empowered, under such rules and regulations as
he may prescribe, to establish rental rates for
the lease of reserved lands of the United States
situate within the exterior boundaries of Boul-
der City, Nevada, and, without prior advertising,
to enter into leases therefor at not less than
rates so established and for periods not exceed-
ing fifty-three years from the date of such
leases: Provided, That all revenues which may
accrue to the United States under the provisions
of such leases shall be deposited in the Treasury
and credited to the Colorado River Dam fund es-
tablished by section 617a of this title.
(June 18, 1940, ch. 395, 54 Stat. 437.)
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Section was not enacted as part of the Boulder Can-
yon Project Act which comprises this subchapter.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
BOULDER CITY ACT OF 1958
Public Law 85–900, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1726, provided
for disposal of certain Federal property in Boulder City
for purposes of establishment of a municipal corpora-
tion incorporated under laws of Nevada.
§ 61
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TITLE 43—PUBLIC LANDS
§ 620e
(Pub. L. 90–537, title V, § 502, Sept. 30, 1968, 82
Stat. 898.)
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Section was enacted as part of the Colorado River
Basin Project Act, and not as part of act Apr. 11, 1956,
popularly known as the Colorado River Storage Project
Act, which comprises this chapter.
§ 620e. Cost allocations; Indian lands; report to
Congress
Upon completion of each unit, participating
project or separable feature thereof, the Sec-
retary shall allocate the total costs (excluding
any expenditures authorized by section 620g of
this title) of constructing said unit, project or
feature to power, irrigation, municipal water
supply, flood control, navigation, or any other
purposes authorized under reclamation law. Al-
locations of construction, operation and mainte-
nance costs to authorized nonreimbursable pur-
poses shall be nonreturnable under the provi-
sions of this chapter. In the event that the Nav-
ajo participating project is authorized, the costs
allocated to irrigation of Indian-owned tribal or
restricted lands within, under, or served by such
project, and beyond the capability of such lands
to repay, shall be determined, and, in recogni-
tion of the fact that assistance to the Navajo In-
dians is the responsibility of the entire nation,
such costs shall be nonreimbursable. On January
1 of each year the Secretary shall report to the
Congress for the previous fiscal year, beginning
with the fiscal year 1957, upon the status of the
revenues from, and the cost of, constructing, op-
erating, and maintaining the Colorado River
storage project and the participating projects.
The Secretary’s report shall be prepared to re-
flect accurately the Federal investment allo-
cated at that time to power, to irri
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