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43 U.S.C. § 617g — Colorado River compact as controlling authority in construction and maintenance of dam, reservoir, canals, and other works
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**(a)** The United States, its permittees, licensees, and contractees, and all users and appropriators of water stored, diverted, carried, and/or distributed by the reservoir, canals, and other works herein, authorized shall observe and be subject to and controlled by said Colorado River compact in the construction, management, and operation of said reservoir, canals, and other works and the storage, diversion, delivery, and use of water for the generation of power, irrigation, and other purposes, anything in this subchapter to the contrary notwithstanding, and all permits, licenses, and contracts shall so provide.
**(b)** Also the United States, in constructing, managing, and operating the dam, reservoir, canals, and other works herein authorized in including the appropriation, delivery, and use of water for the generation of power, irrigation, or other uses, and all users of water thus delivered and all users and appropriators of waters stored by said reservoir and/or carried by said canal, including all permittees and licensees of the United States or any of its agencies, shall observe and be subject to and controlled, anything to the contrary herein notwithstanding, by the terms of such compact, if any, between the States of Arizona, California, and Nevada, or any two thereof, for the equitable division of the benefits, including power, arising from the use of water accruing to said States, subsidiary to and consistent with said Colorado River compact, which may have been negotiated and approved by said States and to which Congress shall have given its consent and approval on or before January 1, 1929; and the terms of any such compact concluded between said States and approved and consented to by Congress after said date: Provided, That in the latter case such com
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**(a)** The United States, its permittees, licensees, and contractees, and all users and appropriators of water stored, diverted, carried, and/or distributed by the reservoir, canals, and other works herein, authorized shall observe and be subject to and controlled by said Colorado River compact in the construction, management, and operation of said reservoir, canals, and other works and the storage, diversion, delivery, and use of water for the generation of power, irrigation, and other purposes, anything in this subchapter to the contrary notwithstanding, and all permits, licenses, and contracts shall so provide.
**(b)** Also the United States, in constructing, managing, and operating the dam, reservoir, canals, and other works herein authorized in including the appropriation, delivery, and use of water for the generation of power, irrigation, or other uses, and all users of water thus delivered and all users and appropriators of waters stored by said reservoir and/or carried by said canal, including all permittees and licensees of the United States or any of its agencies, shall observe and be subject to and controlled, anything to the contrary herein notwithstanding, by the terms of such compact, if any, between the States of Arizona, California, and Nevada, or any two thereof, for the equitable division of the benefits, including power, arising from the use of water accruing to said States, subsidiary to and consistent with said Colorado River compact, which may have been negotiated and approved by said States and to which Congress shall have given its consent and approval on or before January 1, 1929; and the terms of any such compact concluded between said States and approved and consented to by Congress after said date: Provided, That in the latter case such compact shall be subject to all contracts, if any, made by the Secretary of the Interior under [section 617d of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section617d&num=0&edition=prelim) prior to the date of such approval and consent by Congress.
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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, under such general regulations as he may prescribe, to contract for the storage of water in said reservoir and for the delivery thereof at such points on the river and on said canal as may be agreed upon, for irrigation and domestic uses, and generation of electrical energy and delivery at the switchboard to States, municipal corporations, political subdivisions, and private corporations of electrical energy generated at said dam, upon charges that will provide revenue which, in addition to other revenue accruing under the reclamation law and under this subchapter, will in his judgment cover all expenses of operation and maintenance incurred by the United States on account of works constructed under this subchapter and the payments to the United States under subdivision (b) of [section 617c of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section617c&num=0&edition=prelim). Contracts respecting water for irrigation and domestic uses shall be for permanent service and shall conform to paragraph (a) of [section 617c of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section617c&num=0&edition=prelim). No person shall have or be entitled to have the use for any purpose of the water stored as aforesaid except by contract made as herein stated.
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TITLE 43—PUBLIC LANDS
§ 617g
defined in section 617k of this title. For further details,
see note set out under section 617k of this title.
§ 617e. Uses to be made of dam and reservoir;
title in whom; leases, regulations; limitation
on authority
The dam and reservoir provided for by section
617 of this title shall be used: First, for river reg-
ulation, improvement of navigation, and flood
control; second, for irrigation and domestic uses
and satisfaction of present perfected rights in
pursuance of Article VIII of said Colorado River
compact; and third, for power. The title to said
dam, reservoir, plant, and incidental works shall
forever remain in the United States, and the
United States shall, until otherwise provided by
Congress, control, manage, and operate the
same, except as herein otherwise provided: Pro-
vided, however, That the Secretary of the Inte-
rior may, in his discretion, enter into contracts
of lease of a unit or units of any Government-
built plant, with right to generate electrical en-
ergy, or alternatively, to enter into contracts of
lease for the use of water for the generation of
electrical energy as herein provided, in either of
which events the provisions of section 617d of
this title relating to revenue, term, renewals,
determination of conflicting applications, and
joint use of transmission lines under contracts
for the sale of electrical energy, shall apply.
The Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe
and enforce rules and regulations conforming
with the requirements of the Federal Power Act
[16 U.S.C. 791a et seq.], so far as applicable, re-
specting maintenance of works in condition of
repair adequate for their efficient operation,
maintenance of a system of accounting, control
of rates and service
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