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Show 120 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER 18 - Section one of the bill prohibited the construction of any participating project until the Secretary of the In- terior had certified that it was feasible. 19 - Section two of the bill expressed the intent of Con- gress to authorize more power and irrigation projects in the Upper Basin. 20 - Section three provided that the project be built in compliance with reclamation law, except for certain devi- ations from the law, such as repayment of irrigation pro- jects in fifty years, plus a development period, and changed the law to give domestic water priority over agricultural water. Indian projects didn't have to be repaid by the water users. 21 - Section four of the bill created a Basin Fund into which all appropriations and all revenues would go. Revenues in excess of operating needs would be returned to the Treasury. 22 - Section five of the bill required the Secretary to make a report on the project to Congress each year. 23 - Section six asked that as much firm power be pro- duced and sold as possible without impairing water uses. 24 - Section seven told the Secretary to build recrea- tional facilities and improve fishing. 25 - Section eight said that the bill didn't interpret the law of the river, such as the Colorado River Compact. 26 - Section nine said the Secretary didn't have to con- sider statutes applying to such things as soil surveys and land classification, or whether lands were susceptible of irrigation in building Glen Canyon and Echo Park Dams, because these dams had no direct connection with irri- gation works, even though part of their cost was allocated to irrigation. 27 - Section ten stated that it was the desire of Con- gress that the project be built as fast as possible. 28 - Section eleven authorized the appropriation of funds, not to exceed $1 billion. 29 - Section twelve directed the Secretary to make a study of the quality of water which would result from transmountain diversions and other projects. |
