Extracts from the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior Relating to the Bureau of Reclamation

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956
 

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Page 93 - Section 6 which provides, in effect, that all works constructed thereunder shall be subject to and controlled by the Colorado River Compact, the Boulder Canyon Project Act and the California Limitation Act...
Page 29 - ... desirable from the fish and wildlife standpoint. Another important investigation is being conducted in South Dakota to develop a wildlife habitat replacement plan to compensate for the inundation by the Oahe and Big Bend Reservoirs of vital big game and upland game habitat in the bottom lands along the main stem of the Missouri River in North and South Dakota. These are Corps of Engineers projects. A number of lesser investigations will be conducted in connection with other project developments...
Page 83 - M-36635. Memorandum. To : The Secretary. From: The Solicitor. Subject : Agreement for San Luis unit, Central Valley project There is now pending in the Department a proposed agreement with the State of California for the construction and operation of the San Luis unit of the Central Valley project In California. The agreement has been drafted pursuant to the provisions of the San Luis Act of June 3, 1960 (74 Stat. 156). In my opinion the draft conforms to' law and may be signed by you on behalf of...
Page 48 - The limitation on the amount of money which may be used for the performance of work by Government forces (force account work) first imposed upon the Bureau in the 1949 appropriation act and repeated each year since was included again in the 1953 act.
Page 51 - We have been advised by the Corps of Engineers and the International Boundary and Water Commission...
Page 3 - Arizona hereby agrees irrevocably and unconditionally that its rights in and to the use of the waters of the Colorado River...
Page 6 - Texas, and later removed to the United States District Court, Western District of Texas, El Paso Division. On...
Page 5 - Nelms,s holding that the United States could not be held liable under the Federal Tort Claims Act for damage done to plaintiff's house by the sonic boom of an Air Force plane absent proof of negligence.

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