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43 U.S.C. § 617d — Contracts for storage and use of waters for irrigation and domestic purposes; generation and sale of electrical energy

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43 U.S.C. § 617d — Contracts for storage and use of waters for irrigation and domestic purposes; generation and sale of electrical energy

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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43 U.S.C. § 617c — Condition precedent to taking effect of provisions

**(a) Ratification by interested States of Colorado River compact; agreements for apportionment of waters** This subchapter shall not take effect and no authority shall be exercised under this subchapter and no work shall be begun and no moneys expended on or in connection with the works or structures provided for in this subchapter, and no water rights shall be claimed or initiated thereunder, and no steps shall be taken by the United States or by others to initiate or perfect any claims to the use of water pertinent to such works or structures unless and until (1) the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming shall have ratified the Colorado River compact, mentioned in section 617l of this title, and the President by public proclamation shall have so declared, or (2) if said States fail to ratify the said compact within six months from December 21, 1928, then, until six of said States, including the State of California, shall ratify said compact and shall consent to waive the provisions of the first paragraph of Article XI of said compact, which makes the same binding and obligatory only when approved by each of the seven States signatory thereto, and shall have approved said compact without conditions, save that of such six-State approval, and the President by public proclamation shall have so declared, and, further, until the State of California, by act of its legislature, shall agree irrevocably and unconditionally with the United States and for the benefit of the States of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, as an express covenant and in consideration of the passage of this subchapter, that the aggregate annual consumptive use (diversions less returns to the river) of water of and from the Colorado River f

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43 U.S.C. § 617k — Definitions

“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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43 U.S.C. § 1572 — Canal or canal lining

**(a) Authorization of construction** To assist in meeting salinity control objectives of Minute No. 242 during an interim period, the Secretary is authorized to construct a new concrete-lined canal or, to line the presently unlined portion of the Coachella Canal of the Boulder Canyon project, California, from station 2 plus 26 to the beginning of siphon numbered 7, a length of approximately forty-nine miles. The United States shall be entitled to temporary use of a quantity of water, for the purpose of meeting the salinity control objectives of Minute No. 242, during an interim period, equal to the quantity of water conserved by constructing or lining the said canal. The interim period shall commence on completion of construction or lining said canal and shall end the first year that the Secretary delivers main stream Colorado River water to California in an amount less than the sum of the quantities requested by (1) the California agencies under contracts made pursuant to [section 617d of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section617d&num=0&edition=prelim), and (2) Federal establishments to meet their water rights acquired in California in accordance with the Supreme Court decree in Arizona against California (376 U.S. 340). **(b) Repayment** The charges for total construction shall be repayable without interest in equal annual installments over a period of forty years beginning in the year following completion of construction: Provided, That, repayment shall be prorated between the United States and the Coachella Valley County Water District, and the Secretary is authorized to enter into a repayment contract with Coachella Valley County Water District for that purpose. Such contract shall provide that annual repayment in

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43 U.S.C. § 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](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section617&num=0&edition=prelim) shall be used: First, for river regulation, 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: Provided, however, That the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, enter into contracts of lease of a unit or units of any Government-built plant, with right to generate electrical energy, 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](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section617d&num=0&edition=prelim) 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.

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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

**(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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43 U.S.C. § 619a — Renewal contracts for power

**(a) Offering of contracts by Secretary; total power obligation; conforming of regulations; contract expiration and restrictions** (1) The Secretary of Energy shall offer: (A) To each contractor for power generated at Hoover Dam a contract for delivery commencing October 1, 2017, of the amount of capacity and firm energy specified for that contractor in the following table: Schedule A Long-term Schedule A contingent capacity and associated firm energy for offers of contracts to Boulder Canyon project contractors ContractorContingent capacity (kW)Firm energy (thousands of kWh) SummerWinterTotal Metropolitan Water District of Southern California249,948859,163368,212 1,227,375 City of Los Angeles495,732464,108199,175663,283 Southern California Edison Company280,245166,71271,448238,160 City of Glendale18,17845,02819,29764,325 City of Pasadena11,10838,62216,55355,175 City of Burbank5,17614,0706,03020,100 Arizona Power Authority190,869429,582184,107613,689 Colorado River Commission of Nevada190,869429,582184,107613,689 United States, for Boulder City20,19853,20022,80076,000 Totals1,462,3232,500,0671,071,7293,571,796 (B) To each existing contractor for power generated at Hoover Dam, a contract, for delivery commencing October 1, 2017, of the amount of contingent capacity and firm energy specified for that contractor in the following table: Schedule B Long-term Schedule B contingent capacity and associated firm energy for offers of contracts to Boulder Canyon project contractors ContractorContingent capacity (kW)Firm energy (thousands of kWh) SummerWinterTotal City of Glendale2,0202,7491,1943,943 City of Pasadena9,0892,3991,0413,440 City of Burbank15,1493,6041,5665,170 City of Anaheim40,39634,44214,95849,400 City of Azusa4,0393,3121,4384,750 City of Banning2,0201,324576

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43 U.S.C. § 617d — Contracts for storage and use of waters

Page 211 TITLE 43—PUBLIC LANDS § 617d within six months from December 21, 1928, then, until six of said States, including the State of California, shall ratify said compact and shall consent to waive the provisions of the first para- graph of Article XI of said compact, which makes the same binding and obligatory only when approved by each of the seven States sig- natory thereto, and shall have approved said compact without conditions, save that of such six-State approval, and the President by public proclamation shall have so declared, and, fur- ther, until the State of California, by act of its legislature, shall agree irrevocably and uncondi- tionally with the United States and for the ben- efit of the States of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, as an express covenant and in consideration of the passage of this subchapter, that the aggregate annual con- sumptive use (diversions less returns to the river) of water of and from the Colorado River for use in the State of California, including all uses under contracts made under the provisions of this subchapter and all water necessary for the supply of any rights which existed on De- cember 21, 1928, shall not exceed four million four hundred thousand acre-feet of the waters apportioned to the lower basin States by para- graph (a) of Article III of the Colorado River compact, plus not more than one-half of any ex- cess or surplus waters unapportioned by said compact, such uses always to be subject to the terms of said compact. The States of Arizona, California, and Nevada are authorized to enter into an agreement which shall provide (1) that of the 7,500,000 acre-feet annually apportioned to the lower basin by paragraph (a) of Article III of the Colorado River compact,

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