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43 U.S.C. § 1597 — Construction of provisions of subchapter

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43 U.S.C. § 1597 — Construction of provisions of subchapter

Except as provided in sections 620d(d)(5), 1543(g)(2), and 1595(b) of this title, with respect to the Colorado River Basin Project Act [[43 U.S.C. 1501](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1501&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.] and 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.], respectively, nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to alter, amend, repeal, modify, interpret, or be in conflict with the provisions of the Colorado River Compact (45 Stat. 1057), the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact (63 Stat. 31), the Water Treaty of 1944 with the United Mexican States (Treaty Series 994; 59 Stat. 1219), the decree entered by the Supreme Court of the United States in Arizona against California and others (376 U.S. 340), the Boulder Canyon Project Act (45 Stat. 1057) [[43 U.S.C. 617](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section617&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act (54 Stat. 774; [43 U.S.C. 618a](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section618a&num=0&edition=prelim)) [[43 U.S.C. 618](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section618&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], section 15 of the Colorado River Storage Project Act (70 Stat. 111; [43 U.S.C. 620n](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section620n&num=0&edition=prelim)), the Colorado River Basin Project Act (82 Stat. 885), section 6 of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project Act (76 Stat. 393) [[43 U.S.C. 616e](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section616e&num=0&edition=prelim)], se

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43 U.S.C. § 620n — Water quality study and reports

The Secretary of the Interior is directed to continue studies and to make a report to the Congress and to the States of the Colorado River Basin on the quality of water of the Colorado River.

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33 U.S.C. § 1251 — Congressional declaration of goals and policy

**(a) Restoration and maintenance of chemical, physical and biological integrity of Nation’s waters; national goals for achievement of objective** The objective of this chapter is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation’s waters. In order to achieve this objective it is hereby declared that, consistent with the provisions of this chapter— (1) it is the national goal that the discharge of pollutants into the navigable waters be eliminated by 1985; (2) it is the national goal that wherever attainable, an interim goal of water quality which provides for the protection and propagation of fish, shellfish, and wildlife and provides for recreation in and on the water be achieved by July 1, 1983; (3) it is the national policy that the discharge of toxic pollutants in toxic amounts be prohibited; (4) it is the national policy that Federal financial assistance be provided to construct publicly owned waste treatment works; (5) it is the national policy that areawide waste treatment management planning processes be developed and implemented to assure adequate control of sources of pollutants in each State; (6) it is the national policy that a major research and demonstration effort be made to develop technology necessary to eliminate the discharge of pollutants into the navigable waters, waters of the contiguous zone, and the oceans; and (7) it is the national policy that programs for the control of nonpoint sources of pollution be developed and implemented in an expeditious manner so as to enable the goals of this chapter to be met through the control of both point and nonpoint sources of pollution. **(b) Congressional recognition, preservation, and protection of primary responsibilities and rights of States** It is the policy

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43 U.S.C. § 618a — Receipts from project; disposition

All receipts from the project shall be paid into the Colorado River Dam Fund and shall be available, without further appropriation, for: **(a) Defraying operating expenses** Defraying the costs of operation (including purchase of supplemental energy to meet temporary deficiencies in firm energy which the Secretary of Energy is obligated by contract to supply), maintenance and replacements of, and emergency expenditures for, all facilities of the project, within such separate limitations as may be included in annual appropriations Acts; **(b) Repayment of cost of construction** Repayment to the Treasury, with interest (after making provision for the payments and transfers provided in subdivisions (c) and (d) hereof), of advances to the Colorado River Dam Fund for the construction of the project (excluding the amount allocated to flood control by section 2(b) of the Project Act [[43 U.S.C. 617a(b)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section617a/b&num=0&edition=prelim)]), and any readvances made to said fund under [section 618d of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section618d&num=0&edition=prelim); and **(c) Commutation payments to Arizona and Nevada** Payment subject to the provisions of [section 618b of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section618b&num=0&edition=prelim), in commutation of the payments now provided for the States of Arizona and Nevada in section 4(b) of the Project Act [[43 U.S.C. 617c(b)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section617c/b&num=0&edition=prelim)] to each of said States of the sum of $300,000 for each year of operation, beginning with the year of operation ending May 31, 1938, and

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42 U.S.C. § 4321 — Repealed. Pub. L. 117–58, div. G, title VIII, § 70801(h), Nov. 15, 2021, 135 Stat. 1294

### Statutory Notes Section, Pub. L. 114–94, div. D, title XLI, § 41013, Dec. 4, 2015, 129 Stat. 1761, provided that this subchapter shall terminate 7 years after Dec. 4, 2015.

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43 U.S.C. § 1501 — Congressional declaration of purpose and policy

**(a)** It is the object of this chapter to provide a program for the further comprehensive development of the water resources of the Colorado River Basin and for the provision of additional and adequate water supplies for use in the upper as well as in the lower Colorado River Basin. This program is declared to be for the purposes, among others, of regulating the flow of the Colorado River; controlling floods; improving navigation; providing for the storage and delivery of the waters of the Colorado River for reclamation of lands, including supplemental water supplies, and for municipal, industrial, and other beneficial purposes; improving water quality; providing for basic public outdoor recreation facilities; improving conditions for fish and wildlife, and the generation and sale of electrical power as an incident of the foregoing purposes. **(b)** It is the policy of the Congress that the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter referred to the “Secretary”) shall continue to develop, after consultation with affected States and appropriate Federal agencies, a regional water plan, consistent with the provisions of this chapter and with future authorizations, to serve as the framework under which projects in the Colorado River Basin may be coordinated and constructed with proper timing to the end that an adequate supply of water may be made available for such projects, whether heretofore, herein, or hereafter authorized.

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43 U.S.C. § 617 — Colorado River Basin; protection and development; dam, reservoir, and incidental works; water, water power, and electrical energy; eminent domain

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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43 U.S.C. § 620 — Upper 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

In order to initiate the comprehensive development of the water resources of the Upper Colorado River Basin, for the purposes, among others, of regulating the flow of the Colorado River, storing water for beneficial consumptive use, making it possible for the States of the Upper Basin to utilize, consistently with the provisions of the Colorado River Compact, the apportionments made to and among them in the Colorado River Compact and the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact, respectively, providing for the reclamation of arid and semiarid land, for the control of floods, and for the generation of hydroelectric power, as an incident of the foregoing purposes, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized (1) to construct, operate, and maintain the following initial units of the Colorado River storage project, consisting of dams, reservoirs, powerplants, transmission facilities and appurtenant works: Wayne N. Aspinall, Flaming Gorge, Navajo (dam and reservoir only), and Glen Canyon: Provided, That the Wayne N. Aspinall Dam shall be constructed to a height which will impound not less than nine hundred and forty thousand acre-feet of water or will create a reservoir of such greater capacity as can be obtained by a high waterline located at seven thousand five hundred and twenty feet above mean sea level, and that construction thereof shall not be undertaken until the Secretary has, on the basis of further engineering and economic investigations, reexamined the economic justification of such unit and, accompanied by appropriate documentation in the form of a supplemental report, has certified to the Congress and to the President that, in his judgment, the benefits of such unit will exceed its costs; and (2) to construct, operate, and maintain the following additional reclamation

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43 U.S.C. § 618 — Promulgation of charges for electrical energy

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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43 U.S.C. § 617t — Short title

The short title of this subchapter shall be “Boulder Canyon Project Act.”

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43 U.S.C. § 1501 — Congressional declaration of purpose and

Page 398 TITLE 43—PUBLIC LANDS § 1501 documents, handbooks, standard operating pro- cedures, and statements of policy specific to the scoping, contracting, and review of appraisals performed for the Department by Federal or non-Federal covered appraisers, shall be made publicly available online and provided upon re- quest. (f) Definitions In this section: (1) Covered appraiser The term ‘‘covered appraiser’’ means a State-licensed or -certified real property ap- praiser. (2) Department The term ‘‘Department’’ means the Depart- ment of the Interior. (3) Reporting period The term ‘‘reporting period’’ means the 1- year period before the date on which a report is submitted under subsection (c). (4) Secretary The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary of the Interior. (5) State The term ‘‘State’’ means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, and each ter- ritory and possession of the United States. (Pub. L. 118–230, § 2, Jan. 4, 2025, 138 Stat. 2826.) CHAPTER 32—COLORADO RIVER BASIN PROJECT SUBCHAPTER I—OBJECTIVES Sec. 1501. Congressional declaration of purpose and pol- icy. SUBCHAPTER II—INVESTIGATIONS AND PLANNING 1511. Reconnaissance investigations by Secretary of the Interior; reports; 10-year moratorium on water importation studies. 1511a. Cooperation and participation by Secretary of the Army with Federal, State, and local agencies. 1512. Mexican Water Treaty. 1513. Importation of water; protection of exporting areas. 1514. Authorization of appropriations. SUBCHAPTER III—AUTHORIZED UNITS; PROTECTION OF EXISTING USES 1521. Central Arizona Project. 1522. Orme Dam and Reservoir. 1523. Power requirements of Central Arizona Project and augmentation of Lower Colo- rado River Basin Development Fund. 1524.

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