WSP10077

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 1/1/1948
• Author: Charles A Carson
• Title: Statement of Charles A Carson - Chief Counsel of Arizona Interstate Streams Commission re Colorado River Compact issues
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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2nnbling Act and in the Constitution of Arizona the United

States hacl reserved all richts of 'ray clear across the

State of Arizona on both sides of the Colorado River, for

the use of ":l.ich such ri,:;hts of urxy "rere necessarjr or
convenient to the use of the '.laters of the Colorado River,

or for the generation or transmission of electrical energy

generated by the Colorauo River, should be on the e~Jress

condition and uith the e:lQ:,ress covenant that the rie;hts of

the users of such '.raters shoulc1 be subje6t to and controlled

by the Colorado River COf:l;X'.ct, [,ne1 tho.t such conditions

G_nd covenants ",tt,ccch and run lIi th the riGht to use l1Tster

<:.nd attach as a ,latter of la" ,!!lether set out or referred

to in tile instru,.lent evi6_encing such right of lTay anc1 other

privileges fro. the United States or not,

The BoulGer Canyon Project Act is also unique in

another particular in that it 'rovic1ecl in Sectiori 13 (b)

that the ri:l1ts of the United States as ~ell as the ri~hts of

those clai1'.1in[; under the United States in or to 'Iaters of the

Colorado River anc its tributaries, shal~ oe subject to and

controlled 0", the Colo:'ac10 Ri vel' Cor,l;~e,c t,

The Act is also uniclue in ['.nother respect in that

Section 5 l'l'o':illes that no person shall have or be entitled

to have the use for c.ny lJlJ.r;Jose of l1ny 1:11ters stored in

Lal:e Heac1 exce;Jt by contr8_ct "i th the Secretary of the

Interior, Section 5 <:"_lso ~\'thl)rizes the Secretary of the

Interior, unc,er ouch c;enercl re~ulations as he Clay prescribe,