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43 U.S.C. § 615ii to 615zz — Omitted
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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.
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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, Pub. L. 87–483, § 5, June 13, 1962, 76 Stat. 97, related to payment of operation and maintenance charges of Navajo Indian irrigation project and to transfers of project works and title to property.
Section 615nn, Pub. L. 87–483, § 6, June 13, 1962, 76 Stat. 97, related to restriction on delivery of water from Navajo Indian irrigation project for production of excessive basic commodities.
Section 615oo, Pub. L. 87–483, § 7, June 13, 1962, 76 Stat. 97; Pub. L. 91–416, § 1(b), Sept. 25, 1970, 84 Stat. 867, authorized appropriations for Navajo Indian irrigation project.
Section 615pp, Pub. L. 87–483, § 8, June 13, 1962, 76 Stat. 97, authorized construction, operation, and maintenance of initial stage of San Juan-Chama Project, Colorado-New Mexico.
Section 615qq, Pub. L. 87–483, § 9, June 13, 1962, 76 Stat. 99, related to restriction on delivery of water from San Juan-Chama project for production of excessive basic commodities.
Section 615rr, Pub. L. 87–483, § 10, June 13, 1962, 76 Stat. 99, authorized appropriations for San Juan-Chama project.
Section 615ss, Pub. L. 87–483, § 11, June 13, 1962, 76 Stat. 99; Pub. L. 111–11, title X, § 10402(b), Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1373, provided that waters of Navajo Reservoir, San Juan River and tributary waters be used only pursuant to contract. Amendment 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 615tt, Pub. L. 87–483, § 12, June 13, 1962, 76 Stat. 100, related to water use rights of New Mexico and Arizona.
Section 615uu, Pub. L. 87–483, § 13, June 13, 1962, 76 Stat. 101, provided use of water through works constructed pursuant to sections 615ii to 615yy of this title be subject to Colorado River compact, Upper Colorado River Basin compact, 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.), 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.), 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.), and Mexican Water Treaty (Treaty Series 994).
Section 615vv, Pub. L. 87–483, § 14, June 13, 1962, 76 Stat. 101, required compliance with above-mentioned compacts, laws, and treaties and provided for enforcement and consent to suit.
Section 615ww, Pub. L. 87–483, § 15, June 13, 1962, 76 Stat. 102, related to studies of quality of water of Colorado River system and reports to Congress on results of these studies.
Section 615xx, Pub. L. 87–483, § 16, June 13, 1962, 76 Stat. 102, related to compact obligations of “States of the upper division” concerning flow depletion at Lee Ferry and the Mexican treaty obligation.
Section 615yy, Pub. L. 87–483, § 17, June 13, 1962, 76 Stat. 102, related to determination of appropriations.
Section 615zz, Pub. L. 91–416, § 2, Sept. 25, 1970, 84 Stat. 867, related to water quality standards of the Navajo Indian irrigation project.
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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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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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