Updating the Hoover Dam documents, 1978 / Milton N. Nathanson.

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Introduction This volume contains the major documents which date from 1948, pertaining to the Colorado River. However, because of their importance, the chapters on "United States Colorado River Water Delivery and Related Contracts" and "Power Contracts" enumerate all the current contracts in those categories including those pre-1948 and subsequent thereto. Coupled with the events which occurred prior to 1948, these documents constitute "The Law of the River" and are summarized in Chapter I. Following explanatory narrative chapters which describe their background and origin, the texts of the major documents appear as Appendices. The explanatory narrative statements have been divided into Chapters; and the Appendices have been identified by numbers which correspond to the Chapter numbers. This volume includes the following chapters: Chapter I - Summary of "The Law of the River" Chapter I is a narrative statement of "The Law of the River" and provides an overall view of all major developments affecting the "Law of the Colorado River." To make this volume as self-sufficient as possible it includes a summary of the events covered in the 1933 edition of "The Hoover Dam Contracts-Wilbur and Ely" and the 1948 edition of "The Hoover Dam Documents-Wilbur and Ely." Chapter 11 - United States Colorado River Water Delivery and Related Contracts Chapter II recites each Colorado River water delivery contract entered into by the United States and related contracts, separately covered by reference to the Lower Basin States where the water is used and by the Project which identifies the contractor. Because of the volume of such contracts no texts have been included as Appendices. The texts of many of the earlier contracts appear in "The Hoover Dam Documents-Wilbur and Ely, 1948." Chapter III - Power Contracts Chapter III recites each power contract entered into by the United States in the Lower Basin States involving Bureau of Reclamation facilities. Subchapters are provided which cover the Boulder Canyon Project contracts, the Parker-Davis Project contracts, the Navajo Generating Station contracts, the Colorado River Storage Project contracts, and the Pacific Northwest-Pacific Southwest Intertie contracts. Because of ihe volume of such contracts no texts have been included as Appendices. The texts of the earlier contracts appear in "The Hoover Dam Documents-Wilbur and Ely, 1948." Chapter IV - The Upper Colorado River Basin Compact Chapter IV refers to the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact which apportions to the Upper Basin States the waters available to the Upper Basin under the Colorado River Compact of 1922. Its text appears in Appendix 1G.1.