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Show APPENDIX M A BILL To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Colorado River Storage Project and participating projects, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in order to initiate the comprehensive development of the water resources of the Upper Colorado .River Basin, the Congress, in the exercise of its constitutional authority to provide for the general welfare, to regulate commerce among the States, and to make all needful rules and regulations respecting property belonging to the United States, and for the purposes, among others, of regulating the flow of the Colorado River, storing water for beneficial consumptive use, making it possible for the States of the Upper Basin to utilize, consistently with the obligation undertaken by the States of the Upper Division in Article III of the Colorado River Compact, the apportionments made to and among them in the Colorado River Compact and the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact, respectively, providing for the control of floods and for the improvement of navigation, and generating hydroelectric power, hereby authorizes the Secretary of the Interior (1) to construct, operate, and maintain the following initial units of the Colorado River Storage Project, consisting of dams, reservoirs, power plants, transmission facilities and appurtenant works: Echo Park, Flaming Gorge, Glen Canyon, Navajo and a dam or dams in the Gunnison River Basin at a site or sites to be determined by the Secretary after consultation with the Colorado Water Conservation Board; and (2) to construct, operate, and maintain the following additional reclamation projects (including power generating and transmission facilities related thereto), hereinafter referred to as participating projects: Central Utah (initial phase), Emery County, Gooseberry, Florida, San Juan-Ch.ama, South San Juan, Shiprock Indian Reclamation, Hammond, LaBarge, Lyman, Paonia (including the Minnesota unit, a dam and reservoir on Muddy Creek just above its confluence with the North Fork of the Gunnison River, and other necessary works), Pine River Extension, La Plata, Seedskadee, Silt and Smith Fork: Provided, That no appropriation for or construction of the San Juan-Chama Project, the South San Juan Project, or the Shiprock Indian Reclamation Project shall be made or begun until coordinated reports thereon shall have been submitted to the affected States pursuant to the Act of December 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 887), and approved by the Congress. The benefits of the Act of July 1, 1932 -81- |
