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43 U.S.C. § 1551 — Construction of Colorado River Basin Act
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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) 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 the Governors of each State signatory to the Colorado River Compact; and
(2) condition all contracts for the delivery of water originating in the drainage basin of the Colorado River system upon the availability of water under the Colorado River Compact.
**(c) Compliance of Federal officers and agencies** All Federal officers and agencies are directed to comply with the applicable provisions of this chapter, and of the laws, treaty, compacts, and decree referred to in subsection (a) of this section, in the storage and release of water from all reservoirs and in the operation and maintenance of all facilities in the Colorado River system under the jurisdiction and supervision of the Secretary, and in the operation and maintenance of all works which may be authorized hereafter for the augmentation of the water supply of the Colorado River system. In the event of failure of any such officer or agency to so comply, any affected State may maintain an action to enforce the provisions of this section in the Supreme Court of the United States and consent is given to the joinder of the United States as a party in such suit or suits, as a defendant or otherwise.
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**(a)**
(1) When requested by a committee of Congress having jurisdiction over receipts or appropriations, the President shall provide the committee with assistance and information.
(2) When requested by a committee of Congress, additional information related to the amount of an appropriation originally requested by an Office of Inspector General shall be submitted to the committee.
**(b)** When requested by a committee of Congress, by the Comptroller General, or by the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the head of each executive agency shall—
(1) provide information on the location and kind of available fiscal, budget, and program information;
(2) to the extent practicable, prepare summary tables of that fiscal, budget, and program information and related information the committee, the Comptroller General, or the Director of the Congressional Budget Office considers necessary; and
(3) provide a program evaluation carried out or commissioned by an executive agency.
**(c)** In cooperation with the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, the Secretary, and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Comptroller General shall—
(1) establish and maintain a current directory of sources of, and information systems for, fiscal, budget, and program information and a brief description of the contents of each source and system;
(2) when requested, provide assistance to committees of Congress and members of Congress in obtaining information from the sources in the directory; and
(3) when requested, provide assistance to committees and, to the extent practicable, to members of Congress in evaluating the information obtained from the sources in the directory
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**(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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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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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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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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Page 411
TITLE 43—PUBLIC LANDS
§ 1551
Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 98–569 inserted ‘‘the costs of
measures to replace incidental fish and wildlife values
foregone, and the costs of on-farm measures’’ before
‘‘payable from’’.
1974—Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 93–320 added cl. (2). Existing
cl. (2), authorizing the use of revenues to assist in the
repayment of reimbursable costs incurred in connec-
tion with units constructed after Sept. 30, 1968, to pro-
vide for the augmentation of water supplies of the Colo-
rado River for use below Lee Ferry, redesignated (3).
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1984 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 98–569 effective Oct. 30, 1984,
see section 6 of Pub. L. 98–569, set out as a note under
section 1591 of this title.
TERMINATION OF REPORTING REQUIREMENTS
For termination, effective May 15, 2000, of provisions
of law requiring submittal to Congress of any annual,
semiannual, or other regular periodic report listed in
House Document No. 103–7 (in which a report required
under subsec. (i) of this section is listed as the 7th item
on page 114), see section 3003 of Pub. L. 104–66, as
amended, and section 1(a)(4) [div. A, § 1402(1)] of Pub. L.
106–554, set out as notes under section 1113 of Title 31,
Money and Finance.
LIMITATION ON FUNDS
Pub. L. 108–451, title I, § 107(b), Dec. 10, 2004, 118 Stat.
3498, provided that: ‘‘Amounts made available under
the amendment made by subsection (a) [amending this
section]—
‘‘(1) shall be identified and retained in the Lower
Colorado River Basin Development Fund established
by section 403 of the Colorado River Basin Project
Act (43 U.S.C. 1543); and
‘‘(2) shall not be expended or withdrawn from that
fund until the later of—
‘‘(A) the date on which the findings described in
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Page 209
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
§ 620
Sec.
620d.
Upper Colorado River Basin Fund.
620d–1.
Reimbursement of Fund from Colorado River
Development Fund; operation of Hoover
Dam.
620e.
Cost allocations; Indian lands; report to Con-
gress.
620f.
Powerplant operations.
620g.
Recreational and fish and wildlife facilities.
620h.
Saving provisions.
620i.
Expenditures; units excepted from soil survey
and land classification requirements.
620j.
Court decree; effectivity and approval.
620k.
Authorization of appropriations.
620l.
Net power revenues.
620m.
Compliance with law required in operation of
facilities; enforcement of provisions.
620n.
Water quality study and reports.
620n–1.
Top water bank.
620o.
Definitions.
§ 620. Upper Colorado River Basin; purpose of
development of water resources; initial units;
construction of Wayne N. Aspinall unit con-
tingent
upon
certification;
participating
projects; Rainbow Bridge National Monu-
ment
In order to initiate the comprehensive devel-
opment of the water resources of the Upper Col-
orado River Basin, for the purposes, among oth-
ers, 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 provi-
sions of the Colorado River Compact, the appor-
tionments made to and among them in the Colo-
rado 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 fore-
going purposes, the Secretary of the Interior is
authorized (1) to construct, operate, and main-
tain the following initial units of the Colorado
Rive
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