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Show 90th Congress 1st Session S. 1004 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES August 8, 1967 Referred to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs AN ACT To authorize the construction, operation, and maintenance of the central Arizona project, Arizona-New Mexico, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SEC. 1. That this Act may be cited as the "Central Arizona Project Act". SEC. 2. (a) 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, generation of electric power and energy, control of floods, conservation and development of fish and wildlife resources, enhancement of recreation opportunities, and for other purposes, the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as 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 (Granite Reef aqueduct and pumping plants), for diverting and carrying water from Lake Havasu to Orme Dam or suitable alternative, which system shall have a capacity of not less than three thousand cubic feet per second; (2) Orme Dam and Reservoir and power-pumping plant or suitable alternative; (3) Buttes Dam and Reservoir, which shall be so operated as to not prejudice the rights of any user in and to the waters of the Gila River as those rights are set forth in 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); (4) Hooker Dam and Reservoir, which shall be constructed in such a manner as to give effect to the provisions of subsections (f), (g), and (h) of this section; (5) Charleston Dam and Reservoir; (6) Tucson aqueducts and pumping plants; (7) Salt-Gila aqueduct; (8) canals, regulating facilities, hydroelectric powerplants, and electrical transmission facilities; (9) related water distribution and drainage works; and (10) appurtenant works: Provided, That for a period of 27 years from the effective date of this Act, in any year in which, as determined by the Secretary, there will be insufficient main stream Colorado River water to satisfy the consumptive uses of two million eight hundred thousand, four million four hundred thousand, and three hundred thousand acre-feet in Arizona, California, and Nevada, respectively, diversions for the said purposes of the Central Arizona Project shall be so limited as to assure the availability of water in quantities sufficient to provide for the aggregate annual consumptive use of four million four hundred thousand acre-feet in the State of California. Except as to the terms and provisions of this priority, the rights of Arizona under the decision in Arizona against California (373 U.S. 546) are not affected, abridged, or impaired. The terms "consumptive use" and "main stream" as used in this Act shall have the meanings assigned to those terms in the decree in Arizona against California, dated March 9, 1964 (376 U.S. 340). (b) (1) The Secretary may enter into an agreement with non-Federal interests proposing to construct a thermal generating powerplant whereby the United States shall acquire the right to such portion of the capacity of such plant, including delivery of power and energy over appurtenant transmission facilities to mutually agreed upon delivery points, as he determines is required in connection with the Central Arizona Project. Power and energy acquired thereunder may be disposed of intermittently by the Secretary when not required in connection with the Central Arizona Project. The agreement shall provide, among other things, that - 68 |