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<br />COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT AND
<br />PARTICIPATING PROJECTS*
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<br />AN Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct,
<br />operate, and maintain the Colorado River storage project
<br />and participating projects, and for other purposes. (Act
<br />April 11, 1956, ch. 203, 70 Stat. 105)
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<br />SEC. 1. That, in order to initiate the comprehensive development
<br />of the water resources of the Upper Colorado River Basin, for the purposes,
<br />among others, of regulating the flow of the Colorado River, storing water
<br />for beneficial consumptive use, making it possible for the States of the
<br />Upper Ba sin to utilize, consistently with the provisions of the Colorado
<br />River Compact, the apportionments made to and among them in the
<br />Colorado River Compact and the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact,
<br />respectively, providing for the reclamation of arid and semiarid land,
<br />for the control of floods, and for the generation of hydroelectric power,
<br />as an incident to the foregoing purposes, the Secretary of the Interior
<br />is hereby authorized:
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<br />(1) to construct, operate, and maintain the following initial
<br />units of the Colorado River storage project, consisting of dams, reser-
<br />voirs, powerplants, transmission facilities and appurtenant works:
<br />Ci.1recanti, Flaming Gorge, Na vaj 0 (dam and reservoir only), and Glen
<br />Canyon: Provided, That the Curecanti Dam shall be constructed to a
<br />height which will impound not less than nine hundred and forty thousand.
<br />acre-feet of water or will create a reservoir of such greater capacity as
<br />can be obtained by a high waterline located at seven thousand five
<br />hundred and twenty feet above mean sea level, and that construction
<br />thereof shall not be undertaken until the Secretary has, on the basis
<br />of further engineering and economic investigations, reexamined the
<br />economic justification of such unit and, accompanied by appropriate
<br />documentation in the form of a supplemental report, has certified to the
<br />Congress and to the President that, in his judgment, the benefits of
<br />such unit will exceed its costs; and.
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<br />(2) to construct, operate, and maintain the following additional
<br />reclamation projects (including power-generating and transmission facilities
<br />related thereto), hereinafter referred to as participating projects: Central
<br />Utah (initial phase):1I Emery County, Florida, Hammond, La Barge, Lyman,lI
<br />Paonia (including the Minnesota unit, a dam and reservoir on Muddy Creek
<br />just above its confluence with the North Fork of the Gunnison River, and
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<br />*The text is from Federal Reclamation Laws (Without Annotation)
<br />Volume II, 1958.
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