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43 U.S.C. § 1524 — Water furnished from Central Arizona Project
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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) 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 period of not more than fifty years; any water service provided pursuant to [section 485h(e) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section485h/e&num=0&edition=prelim) may be on the basis of delivery of water for a period of fifty years and for the delivery of such water at an identical price per acre-foot for water of the same class at the several points of delivery from the main canals and conduits and from such other points of delivery as the Secretary may designate; and long-term contracts relating to irrigation water supply shall provide that water made available thereunder may be made available by the Secretary for municipal or industrial purposes if and to the extent that such water is not required by the contractor for irrigation purposes.
(3) Contracts relating to municipal and industrial water supply under the Central Arizona Project may be made without regard to the limitations of the last sentence of [section 485h(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section485h/c&num=0&edition=prelim); may provide for the delivery of such water at an identical price per acre-foot for water of the same class at the several points of delivery from the main canals and conduits; and may provide for repayment over a period of fifty years if made pursuant to clause (1) of said section and for the delivery of water over a period of fifty years if made pursuant to clause (2) thereof.
**(c) Water conservation** Each contract under which water is provided under the Central Arizona Project shall require that (1) there be in effect measures, adequate in the judgment of the Secretary, to control expansion of irrigation from aquifers affected by the irrigation in the contract service area; (2) the canals and distribution systems through which water is conveyed after its delivery by the United States to the contractors shall be provided and maintained with linings adequate in his judgment to prevent excessive conveyance losses; and (3) [Repealed. Pub. L. 102–575, title XXXVII, § 3710(k), Oct. 30, 1992, 106 Stat. 4751]. Such contracts shall be subordinate at all times to the satisfaction of all existing contracts between the Secretary and users in Arizona heretofore made pursuant to 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.].
**(d) Water exchanges** The Secretary may require in any contract under which water is provided from the Central Arizona Project that the contractor agree to accept main stream water in exchange for or in replacement of existing supplies from sources other than the main stream. The Secretary shall so require in the case of users in Arizona who also use water from the Gila River system to the extent necessary to make available to users of water from the Gila River system in New Mexico additional quantities of water as provided in and under the conditions specified in subsection (f) of this section: Provided, That such exchanges and replacements shall be accomplished without economic injury or cost to such Arizona contractors.
**(e) Water shortage priorities** In times of shortage or reduction of main stream Colorado River water for the Central Arizona Project, as determined by the Secretary, users which have yielded water from other sources in exchange for main stream water supplied by that project shall have a first priority to receive main stream water, as against other users supplied by that project which have not so yielded water from other sources, but only in quantities adequate to replace the water so yielded.
**(f) New Mexico users; water exchange contracts**
(1) In the operation of the Central Arizona Project, the Secretary shall offer to contract with water users in the State of New Mexico, with the approval of its Interstate Stream Commission, or with the State of New Mexico, through its Interstate Stream Commission, for water from the Gila River, its tributaries and underground water sources in amounts that will permit consumptive use of water in New Mexico of not to exceed an annual average in any period of 10 consecutive years of 14,000 acre-feet, including reservoir evaporation, over and above the consumptive uses provided for by article IV of the decree of the Supreme Court of the United States in Arizona v. California (376 U.S. 340). Such increased consumptive uses shall continue only so long as delivery of Colorado River water to downstream Gila River users in Arizona is being accomplished in accordance with this chapter, in quantities sufficient to replace any diminution of their supply resulting from such diversion from the Gila River, its tributaries and underground water sources. In determining the amount required for this purpose, full consideration shall be given to any differences in the quality of the water involved.
(2) All additional consumptive uses provided for in clauses (1) and (2) 11 So in original. of this subsection shall be subject to all rights in New Mexico and Arizona as established by the decree entered by the United States District Court for the District of Arizona on June 29, 1935, in United States against Gila Valley Irrigation District and others (Globe Equity Numbered 59) and to all other rights existing on September 30, 1968, in New Mexico and Arizona to water from the Gila River, its tributaries, and underground water sources, and shall be junior thereto and shall be made only to the extent possible without economic injury or cost to the holders of such rights.
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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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All moneys received from the sale and disposal of public lands in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901, including the surplus of fees and commissions in excess of allowances to officers designated by the Secretary of the Interior, and excepting the 5 per centum of the proceeds of the sales of public lands in the above States set aside by law for educational and other purposes, shall be, and the same are, reserved, set aside, and appropriated as a special fund in the Treasury to be known as the “reclamation fund”, to be used in the examination and survey for and the construction and maintenance of irrigation works for the storage, diversion, and development of waters for the reclamation of arid and semiarid lands in the said States and Territories, and for the payment of all other expenditures provided for in this Act.
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When used in sections 371, 376, 377, 412, 417, 433, 462, 466, 478, 493, 494, 500, 501, and 526 of this title—
**(a)** The word “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Interior.
**(b)** The words “reclamation law” mean the Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388), and all Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto.
**(c)** The words “reclamation fund” mean the fund provided by the reclamation law.
**(d)** The word “project” means a Federal irrigation project authorized by the reclamation law.
**(e)** The words “division of a project” mean a substantial irrigable area of a project designated as a division by order of the Secretary.
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The short title of this subchapter shall be “Boulder Canyon Project Act.”
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The Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to grant concessions on reservoir sites, reserves for canals or flowage areas, and other lands under his jurisdiction which have been withdrawn or otherwise acquired in connection with the San Carlos, Fort Hall, Flathead, and Duck Valley or Western Shoshone irrigation projects for the benefit in whole or in part of Indians, and to lease such lands for agricultural, grazing, or other purposes: Provided, That no lands so leased shall be eligible for benefit payments under the crop control program, or the soil conservation act: Provided further, That such concessions may be granted or lands leased by the Secretary of the Interior under such rules, regulations, and laws as govern his administration of the public domain as far as applicable, for such considerations, monetary or otherwise, and for such periods of time as he may deem proper, the term of no concession to exceed a period of ten years: Provided further, That the funds derived from such concessions or leases, except funds so derived from Indian tribal property withdrawn for irrigation purposes and for which the tribe has not been compensated, shall be available for expenditure in accordance with the existing laws in the operation and maintenance of the irrigation projects with which they are connected. Any funds derived from reserves for which the tribe has not been compensated shall be deposited to the credit of the proper tribe: Provided further, That where tribal lands of any Indian tribe organized under [section 5123 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title25-section5123&num=0&edition=prelim), have been withdrawn or reserved for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned, such lands may be lease
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**(a) Construction and operation; Hayden-Rhodes Aqueduct and pumping plants; Orme Dam and Reservoir; Buttes Dam and Reservoir; Hooker Dam and Reservoir; Charleston Dam and Reservoir; Tucson aqueducts and pumping plants; Fannin-McFarland Aqueduct; related and appurtenant works** For the purposes of furnishing irrigation water and municipal water supplies to the water-deficient areas of Arizona and western New Mexico through direct diversion or exchange of water, control of floods, conservation and development of fish and wildlife resources, enhancement of recreation opportunities, and for other purposes, the Secretary shall construct, operate, and maintain the Central Arizona Project, consisting of the following principal works: (1) a system of main conduits and canals, including a main canal and pumping plants (Hayden-Rhodes Aqueduct and pumping plants), for diverting and carrying water from Lake Havasu to Orme Dam or suitable alternative, which system may have a capacity of 3,000 cubic feet per second or whatever lesser capacity is found to be feasible: Provided, That any capacity in the Hayden-Rhodes Aqueduct in excess of 2,500 cubic feet per second shall be utilized for the conveyance of Colorado River water only when Lake Powell is full or releases of water are made from Lake Powell to prevent the reservoir from exceeding elevation 3,700 feet above mean sea level or when releases are made pursuant to the proviso in [section 1552(a)(3) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1552/a/3&num=0&edition=prelim): Provided further, That the costs of providing any capacity in excess of 2,500 cubic feet per second shall be repaid by those funds available to Arizona pursuant to the provision of [section 1543(f) of this title](h
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**(a) Establishment** There is hereby established a separate fund in the Treasury of the United States to be known as the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund (hereafter called the “development fund”), which shall remain available until expended as hereafter provided.
**(b) Appropriations**
(1) All appropriations made for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of subchapter III of this chapter shall be credited to the development fund as advances from the general fund of the Treasury, and shall be available for such purpose.
(2) Except as provided in [section 1528(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1528/b&num=0&edition=prelim), sums advanced by non-Federal entities for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of subchapter III of this chapter shall be credited to the development fund and shall be available without further appropriation for such purpose.
**(c) Revenues credited to fund** There shall also be credited to the development fund—
(1) all revenues collected in connection with the operation of facilities authorized in subchapter III in furtherance of the purposes of this chapter (except entrance, admission, and other recreation fees or charges and proceeds received from recreation concessionaires), until completion of repayment requirements of the Central Arizona project;
(2) any Federal revenues from the Boulder Canyon and Parker-Davis projects which, after completion of repayment requirements of the said Boulder Canyon and Parker-Davis projects, are surplus, as determined by the Secretary, to the operation, maintenance, and replacement requirements of those projects: Provided, however, That for the Boulder Canyon project commencing June 1, 1987, and for the Parker-Davis project comme
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TITLE 43—PUBLIC LANDS
§ 1524
cluding participation, operation, or construction
by non-Federal entities, for the purpose of sup-
plying the power requirements of the Central
Arizona Project and augmenting the Lower Col-
orado River Basin Development Fund: Provided,
That nothing in this section or in this chapter
contained shall be construed to authorize the
study or construction of any dams on the main
stream of the Colorado River between Hoover
Dam and Glen Canyon Dam.
(b) Construction of thermal generating power-
plants; agreements for acquisition by United
States of portions of plant capacity
If included as a part of the recommended plan,
the Secretary may enter into agreements with
non-Federal interests proposing to construct
thermal generating powerplants whereby the
United States shall acquire the right to such
portions of their capacity, including delivery of
power and energy over appurtenant trans-
mission facilities to mutually agreed upon deliv-
ery points, as he determines is required in con-
nection with the operation of the Central Ari-
zona Project. When not required for the Central
Arizona Project, the power and energy acquired
by such agreements may be disposed of inter-
mittently by the Secretary for other purposes at
such prices as he may determine, including its
marketing in conjunction with the sale of power
and energy from Federal powerplants in the Col-
orado River system so as to produce the greatest
practicable amount of power and energy that
can be sold at firm power and energy rates. The
agreements shall provide among other things,
that—
(1) the United States shall pay not more
than that portion of the total construction
cost, exclusive of interest during construction,
of the powerplants, and of any switchyar
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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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