Amend the Reclamation Project Act of 1939. H.R. 830, H.R. 1762, H.R. 1770, H.R. 1999, H.R. 2000 ... March 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 19491949 - 206 pages |
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17 Western acre-foot All-American Canal allocated to irrigation amendatory contracts amendment Amici curiae appropriate approved BARRETT believe benefits Boise project Bureau of Reclamation California Central Valley project Chairman Colorado River Commissioner Congress Congressman construction charges construction costs contracting organization costs allocated CRAWFORD D'EWART Davis Dam delivery of water development period ENGLE estimated cost executed Flood Control Act going highway HYATT Interior irrigation district lands LEMKE limit Lineweaver MCBRIDE ment MILLER MURDOCK National Reclamation Association navigation nonreimbursable items North Dakota operation and maintenance payment POLK power users present President purposes pursuant question Reclamation Act Reclamation Project Act referred reimbursable repay repayment contract reservoir revenues riparian Rockwell bill salinity control Secretary section 9 SHAW statement STRAUS submitted thereof tion United water and power water rights water supply water users WELCH West western reclamation Wyoming
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Page 198 - Whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 200 - General of the United States upon every application of the Secretary of the Interior under this act to cause proceedings to be commenced for condemnation within thirty days from the receipt of the application at the Department of Justice.
Page 198 - ... and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed ; but whenever any person, in the construction of any ditch or canal, injures or damages the possession of any settler on the public domain, the party committing such injury or damage shall be liable to the party injured for such injury or damage.
Page 85 - The use for navigation, in connection with the operation and maintenance of such works herein authorized for construction, of waters arising in States lying wholly or partly west of the ninetyeighth meridian shall be only such use as does not conflict with any beneficial consumptive use, present or future, in States lying wholly or partly west of the ninety -eighth meridian, of such waters for domestic, municipal, stock water, irrigation, mining, or industrial purposes.
Page 200 - ... the laws of any State or Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use, or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder, and the Secretary of the Interior, in carrying out the provisions of this act. shall proceed in conformity with such laws, and nothing herein shall in any way affect any right of any State or of the Federal Government or of any landowner, appropriator, or user of water in, to, or from any interstate stream or the waters thereof...
Page 8 - ... (3) the part of the estimated cost which can properly be allocated to irrigation and probably be repaid by the water users; (4) the part of the estimated cost which can properly be allocated to power and probably be returned to the United States...
Page 202 - But not all economic interests are "property rights"; only those economic advantages are "rights" which have the law back of them, and only when they are so recognized may courts compel others to forbear from interfering with them or to compensate for their invasion.
Page 198 - If there are, as must be admitted, many things connected with this system, which are crude and undigested, and subject to fluctuation and dispute, there are still some which a universal sense of necessity and propriety have so firmly fixed as that they have come to be looked upon as having the force and effect of resjudicata.
Page 54 - Secretary's judgment will produce revenues at least sufficient to cover an appropriate share of the annual operation and maintenance cost and an appropriate share of such fixed charges as the Secretary deems proper, due consideration being given to that part of the cost of construction of works connected with water supply and allocated to irrigation; and shall require payment of said rates each year in advance of delivery of water for said year.
Page 8 - No expenditures for the construction of any new project, new division of a project, or new supplemental works on a project shall be made, nor shall estimates be submitted therefor, by the Secretary until after he has made an investigation thereof and has submitted to the President and to the Congress his report and findings on — (1) the engineering feasibility of the proposed construction ; (2) the estimated cost of the proposed construction ; (3) the part of the estimated cost which can properly...