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Show TRANSFER OF DUTIES TO SAX DIEGO AQUEDUCT, CALIF. 3 and second barrels and the execution of contract NOy-13300, failed to make provision for the transfer of administration upon the completion of the aqueduct. Enactment into law of this bill is therefore required to enable the transfer to be effected. FISCAL DATA Enactment into law of this measure will not involve any expenditure of Federal funds. DEPARTMENTAL DATA H. R. 2781 is a part of the legislative program of the Department of Defense for the 85th Congress as is evidenced by letter dated January 8, 1957, from Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas S. Gates, Jr., which is set out below and made a part of this report. Department of the Navy, Office of the Secretary, Washington, D. C, January 8, 1957. Hon. Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. My Dear Mr. Speaker: There is enclosed a draft of proposed legislation to amend the act entitled "An act to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to enlarge existing water-supply facilities for the San Diego, Calif., area in order to insure the existence of an adequate water supply for naval installations and defense production plants in such area," approved October 11, 1951. This proposal is a part of the Department of Defense legislative program for 1957 and the Bureau of the Budget has advised that there would be no objection to the presentation of this proposal for the consideration of the Congress. The Department of the Navy has been designated as the representative of the Department of Defense for this legislation. It is recommended that this legislation be enacted by the Congress. PURPOSE OF THE LEGISLATION The purpose of this proposed legislation is to authorize the transfer of the administration of the contract, which provided for the construction of the San Diego aqueduct, from the Department of the Navy to the Department of the Interior. In 1945 the Department of the Navy commenced construction of the first barrel of the San Diego aqueduct and on October 17, 1945, entered into contract NOy-13300 with the city of San Diego by which that city agreed to lease the aqueduct with an option to purchase at the "true cost" thereof as determined under the contract. The contract was subsequently assigned to the San Diego Water Authority. The project was initiated on instructions from the President, following the report of an interdepartmental committee that had completed a study of the proposed construction of facilities to transfer Colorado River water to relieve a critical shortage in the supplies for the city of San Diego, Calif., and nearby communities (S. Doc. 249, 78th Cong., 2d sess. (1944). Congress subsequently ratified the foregoing action |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : California exhibits. |