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43 U.S.C. § 620b — Congressional intent; additional undesignated projects not precluded; construction not authorized within national park or monument
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It is not the intention of Congress, in authorizing only those projects designated in [section 620 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section620&num=0&edition=prelim), and in authorizing priority in planning only those additional projects designated in [section 620a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section620a&num=0&edition=prelim), to limit, restrict, or otherwise interfere with such comprehensive development as will provide for the consumptive use by States of the Upper Colorado River Basin of waters, the use of which is apportioned to the Upper Colorado River Basin by the Colorado River Compact and to each State thereof by the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact, nor to preclude consideration and authorization by the Congress of additional projects under the allocations in the compacts as additional needs are indicated. It is the intention of Congress that no dam or reservoir constructed under the authorization of this chapter shall be within any national park or monument.
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It is not the intention of Congress, in authorizing only those projects designated in [section 620 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section620&num=0&edition=prelim), and in authorizing priority in planning only those additional projects designated in [section 620a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section620a&num=0&edition=prelim), to limit, restrict, or otherwise interfere with such comprehensive development as will provide for the consumptive use by States of the Upper Colorado River Basin of waters, the use of which is apportioned to the Upper Colorado River Basin by the Colorado River Compact and to each State thereof by the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact, nor to preclude consideration and authorization by the Congress of additional projects under the allocations in the compacts as additional needs are indicated. It is the intention of Congress that no dam or reservoir constructed under the authorization of this chapter shall be within any national park or monument.
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In carrying out further investigations of projects under the Federal reclamation laws in the Upper Colorado River Basin, the Secretary shall give priority to completion of planning reports on the Gooseberry, Eagle Divide, Bluestone, Battlement Mesa, Grand Mesa, Yellow Jacket, Basalt, Middle Park (including the Troublesome, Rabbit Ear, and Azure units), Upper Gunnison (including the East River, Ohio Creek, and Tomichi Creek units), Lower Yampa (including the Juniper and Great Northern units), Upper Yampa (including the Hayden Mesa, Wessels, and Toponas units) and Sublette (including a diversion of water from the Green River to the North Platte River Basin Wyoming), Ute Indian unit of the Central Utah Project, San Juan County (Utah), Price River, Grand County (Utah), Gray Canyon, and Juniper (Utah) participating projects: Provided, That the planning report for the Ute Indian unit of the Central Utah participating project shall be completed on or before December 31, 1974, to enable the United States of America to meet the commitments heretofore made to the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation under the agreement dated September 20, 1965 (Contract Numbered 14–06–W–194). Said reports shall be completed as expeditiously as funds are made available therefor and shall be submitted promptly to the affected States, which in the case of the San Juan-Chama project shall include the State of Texas, and thereafter to the President and the Congress: Provided, That with reference to the plans and specifications for the San Juan-Chama project, the storage for control and regulation of water imported from the San Juan River shall (1) be limited to a single offstream dam and reservoir on a tributary of the Chama River, (2) be used solely for control and regulation
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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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TITLE 43—PUBLIC LANDS
§ 620c
Animas-La Plata, Dolores, Dallas Creek, West
Divide, and San Miguel participating Federal
reclamation projects concurrently with the con-
struction of the Central Arizona Project, to the
end that such projects shall be completed not
later than the date of the first delivery of water
from said Central Arizona Project: Provided,
That an appropriate repayment contract for
each of said participating projects shall have
been executed as provided in section 620c of this
title before construction shall start on that par-
ticular project.
(Pub. L. 90–537, title V, § 501(b), Sept. 30, 1968, 82
Stat. 897.)
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CODIFICATION
Section consists of subsec. (b) of section 501 of Pub.
L. 90–537. Subsecs. (a), (d), and (e) of section 501 are
classified to sections 620, 620 note, 620a, 620a–2, 620c–1,
and 620k note of this title. Subsec. (c) and (f) of section
501 are not classified to the Code.
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.
§ 620a–2. Establishment of nonexcess irrigable
acreage for participating projects
The Secretary shall, for the Animas-La Plata,
Dolores, Dallas Creek, San Miguel, West Divide,
and Seedskadee participating projects of the
Colorado River storage project, establish the
nonexcess irrigable acreage for which any single
ownership may receive project water at one hun-
dred and sixty acres of class 1 land or the equiv-
alent thereof, as determined by the Secretary,
in other land classes.
(Pub. L. 90–537, title V, § 501(d), Sept. 30, 1968, 82
Stat. 898.)
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CODIFICATION
Section consists of subsec. (d) of section 501 of
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