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Show 1 ficial uses exclusively within the United States, and for the 2 generation of electrical energy as a means of making S the project herein authorized a self-supporting and financially 4 solvent undertaking, the Secretary of the Interior, subject to 5 the terms of the Colorado River *oompact hereinafter men-0 tioned, is hereby authorized to construct, operate, and main-7 tain a dam and incidental works in the main stream of the S Colorado River at Black Canyon or Boulder Canyon adequate 9 to create a storage reservoir of a capacity of not less than 10 twenty million acre-feet of water and a main canal and 11 appurtenant structures located entirely within the United 12 States connecting the Laguna Dam with the Imperial and 13 Coachella Valleys in California, the expenditures for said 14 main canal and appurtenant structures to be reimbursable, as 15 provided in the reclamation law: Provided, however, That IB no charge shall be made for water or for the use, storage, or 17 delivery of water for irrigation or water for potable purposes; 18 also to construct and equip, operate, and maintain at 19 or near said dam, a complete plant and incidental structures 20 suitable for the fullest economic development of electrical 21 energy from the water discharged from said reservoir; and 22 to acquire by proceedings in eminent domain, or otherwise, 23 all lands, rights of way, and other property necessary 24 for said purposes. i |
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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. |