The Hoover Dam DocumentsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1948 - 168 pages |
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1st sess 2d sess acre-feet acre-feet of water acres Adjustment Act agreement All-American Canal allocation allottees amount and/or annual appendix apportioned apportionment appropriation approved appurtenant aqueduct arbitration Arizona Article authorized beneficial consumptive bill Boulder Canyon Project Boulder Dam Boulder Power Plant Canyon Project Act City Coachella Valleys Colorado River Basin Colorado River Compact Colorado River System Commissioner Committee on Irrigation Congress construction cost delivered delivery of water District of Southern diversion Edison Company electrical energy firm energy flow Gila hereinafter hereof hereunder Hoover Dam Imperial Dam Imperial Irrigation District Imperial Valley Interior June Laguna Dam Lake Mead lands Lee Ferry lower basin ment Metropolitan Water District Mexican Mexico Nevada Operating Agent parties hereto payment percent priority pursuant ratified regulations reservoir San Diego secondary energy Secretary Senate Southern California Southern California Edison Stat storage tion treaty United upper basin Utah Wyoming Yuma project
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Page A-188 - River compact hereinafter mentioned, is hereby 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...
Page 44 - That 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...
Page A-96 - And the powers of the General Government, and of the State, although both exist and are exercised within the same territorial limits, are yet separate and distinct sovereignties, acting separately and independently of each other, within their respective spheres.
Page A-832 - Wherever, by virtue of the provisions of the Treaty between the United States of America and the United Mexican States, signed in Washington on February 3, 1944, relating to the utilization of the waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande from Fort Quitman, Texas, to the Gulf of Mexico...
Page A-372 - 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.
Page A-22 - The representatives of the signatory States have signed this agreement in a single original which shall be deposited in the archives of the Department of State of the United States, and a duly certified copy shall be forwarded to the Governor of each of the signatory States.
Page A-95 - In America, the powers of sovereignty are divided between the government of the Union and those of the States. They are each sovereign, with respect to the objects committed to it, and neither sovereign with respect to the objects committed to the other.
Page A-96 - Not only therefore can there be no loss of separate and independent autonomy to the States, through their union under the Constitution, but it may be not unreasonably said that the preservation of the States, and the maintenance of their governments, are as much within the design and care of the Constitution as the preservation of the Union and the maintenance of the National government. The Constitution, in all of its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States.
Page A-597 - THIS CONTRACT, made this 1st day of December nineteen hundred thirty-two, pursuant to the Act of Congress approved June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388), and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, all of which acts are commonly known and referred to as the Reclamation Law, and particularly pursuant to the Act of Congress approved December 21, 1928 (45 Stat. 1057), designated the Boulder Canyon Project Act...
Page A-218 - Section 14 hereof, the commission is authorized to issue a new license to the original licensee upon such terms and conditions as may be authorized or required under the then existing laws and regulations...