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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
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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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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 cause to be constructed, a complete plant and incidental structures suitable for the fullest economic development of electrical energy from the water discharged from said reservoir; and to acquire by proceedings in eminent domain, or otherwise, all lands, rights-of-way, and other property necessary for said purposes.
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“Political subdivision” or “political subdivisions” as used in this subchapter shall be understood to include any State, irrigation or other district, municipality, or other governmental organization.
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The provisions of previous Acts of Congress not inconsistent with the provisions of this subchapter shall remain in full force and effect.
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**(a) Projects covered** Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this chapter and without regard to limitations upon eligibility contained in any section or subchapter of this chapter, other than the limitation in [section 1709(g) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title12-section1709/g&num=0&edition=prelim), the Secretary is authorized, upon application by the mortgagee, to insure or make commitments to insure under any section or subchapter of this chapter any mortgage—
(1) executed in connection with the sale by the Government, or any agency or official thereof, of any housing acquired or constructed under Public Law 849, Seventy-sixth Congress, as amended; Public Law 781, Seventy-sixth Congress, as amended; or Public Laws 9, 73, or 353, Seventy-seventh Congress, as amended (including any property acquired, held, or constructed in connection with such housing or to serve the inhabitants thereof); or
(2) executed in connection with the sale by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or by any public housing agency with the approval of the Secretary, of any housing (including any property acquired, held, or constructed in connection with such housing or to serve the inhabitants thereof) owned or financially assisted pursuant to the provisions of Public Law 671, Seventy-sixth Congress; or
(3) executed in connection with the sale by the Government, or any agency or official thereof, of any of the so-called Greenbelt towns, or parts thereof, including projects, or parts thereof, known as Greenhills, Ohio; Greenbelt, Maryland; and Greendale, Wisconsin, developed under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, or of any of the village properties or employee’s housing under the jurisdiction of Tennessee Valley Author
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**(a) Restriction on use of water for irrigation** Unless and until otherwise provided by Congress, water from the Central Arizona Project shall not be made available directly or indirectly for the irrigation of lands not having a recent irrigation history as determined by the Secretary, except in the case of Indian lands, national wildlife refuges, and, with the approval of the Secretary, State-administered wildlife management areas.
**(b) Contracts with municipal and industrial users**
(1) Irrigation and municipal and industrial water supply under the Central Arizona Project within the State of Arizona may, in the event the Secretary determines that it is necessary to effect repayment, be pursuant to master contracts with organizations which have power to levy assessments against all taxable real property within their boundaries. The terms and conditions of contracts or other arrangements whereby each such organization makes water from the Central Arizona Project available to users within its boundaries shall be subject to the Secretary’s approval, and the United States shall, if the Secretary determines such action is desirable to facilitate carrying out the provisions of this chapter, have the right to require that it be a party to such contracts or that contracts subsidiary to the master contracts be entered into between the United States and any user. The provisions of this clause (1) shall not apply to the supplying of water to an Indian tribe for use within the boundaries of an Indian reservation.
(2) Any obligation assumed pursuant to [section 485h(d) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section485h/d&num=0&edition=prelim) with respect to any project contract unit or irrigation block shall be repaid over a basic
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**(a) Effect on other laws** Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to alter, amend, repeal, modify, 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), or, except as otherwise provided herein, 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.], the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act (54 Stat. 774), [[43 U.S.C. 618](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section618&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], or the Colorado River Storage Project Act (70 Stat. 105) [[43 U.S.C. 620](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section620&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.].
**(b) Reports to Congress** The Secretary is directed to—
(1) make reports as to the annual consumptive uses and losses of water from the Colorado River system after each successive five-year period, beginning with the five-year period starting on October 1, 1970. Such reports shall include a detailed breakdown of the beneficial consumptive use of water on a State-by-State basis. Specific figures on quantities consumptively used from the major tributary streams flowing into the Colorado River shall also be included on a State-by-State basis. Such reports shall be prepared in consultation with the States of the lower basin individually and with the Upper Colorado River Commission, and shall be transmitted to the President, the Congress, and to t
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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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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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Nothing contained in this chapter 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 944, 59 Stat. 1219), the Flood Control Act of 1944 (58 Stat. 887), the decree entered by the Supreme Court of the United States in Arizona v. 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.], the 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.], the Colorado River Storage Project Act (70 Stat. 105; [43 U.S.C. 620](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section620&num=0&edition=prelim)) [[43 U.S.C. 620](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section620&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], the Colorado River Basin Project Act (82 Stat. 885; [43 U.S.C. 1501](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1501&num=0&edition=prelim)) [[43 U.S.C. 1501](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1501&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.]. Furthermore, nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed as indicating an intent on the part of the Congress to change the existing relationship of other Federal laws to the law of a State, or a political subdivisi
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All moneys received by the United States in connection with any irrigation projects, including the incidental power features thereof, constructed by the Secretary of the Interior through the Bureau of Reclamation, and financed in whole or in part with moneys heretofore or hereafter appropriated or allocated therefor by the Federal Government, shall be covered into the reclamation fund, except in cases where provision has been made by law or contract for the use of such revenues for the benefit of users of water from such project: Provided, That after the net revenues derived from the sale of power developed in connection with any of said projects shall have repaid those construction costs of such project allocated to power to be repaid by power revenues therefrom and shall no longer be required to meet the contractual obligations of the United States, then said net revenues derived from the sale of power developed in connection with such project shall, after the close of each fiscal year, be transferred to and covered into the General Treasury as “miscellaneous receipts”: Provided further, That nothing in this section shall be construed to amend the Boulder Canyon Project Act (45 Stat. 1057), as amended [[43 U.S.C. 617](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section617&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], or to apply to irrigation projects of the Office of Indian Affairs.
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### Statutory Notes
#### Codification
Section 615ii, Pub. L. 87–483, § 1, June 13, 1962, 76 Stat. 96, related to Congressional declaration of policy.
Section 615jj, Pub. L. 87–483, § 2, as added Pub. L. 111–11, title X, § 10402(a), Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1372, authorized construction, operation, and maintenance of Navajo Indian Irrigation Project. Section to be null and void on issuance of a court order terminating a certain Agreement and Contract between New Mexico, the Navajo Nation, and the United States, see section 10701(e)(2) of Pub. L. 111–11, set out as an Agreement note under [section 620 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section620&num=0&edition=prelim).
A prior section 615jj, Pub. L. 87–483, § 2, June 13, 1962, 76 Stat. 96, authorized construction, operation, and maintenance of Navajo Indian irrigation project, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 111–11, title X, § 10402(a), Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1372. Repeal by Pub. L. 111–11 to be null and void on issuance of a court order terminating a certain Agreement and Contract between New Mexico, the Navajo Nation, and the United States, see section 10701(e)(2) of Pub. L. 111–11, set out as an Agreement note under [section 620 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section620&num=0&edition=prelim).
Section 615kk, Pub. L. 87–483, § 3, June 13, 1962, 76 Stat. 96; Pub. L. 91–416, § 1(a), (c), Sept. 25, 1970, 84 Stat. 867, related to lands to be used as part of Navajo Indian irrigation project.
Section 615ll, Pub. L. 87–483, § 4, June 13, 1962, 76 Stat. 97, related to contractual assurance of repayment of costs and interest for construction of additional capacity in developing Navajo Indian irrigation project.
Section 615mm,
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