WSP11470

• File Number: 8062
• Description: Federal Water Rights
• State: CO
• Basin: Statewide
• Date: 10/25/1979
• Author: WSWC
• Title: Response to the Solicitors Opinion on Federal Water Rights of June 25 1979
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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WSI'/C PROPOSED RESPONSE TO THE SOLICI'-rOR' S OPINION

Solicitor's Opinion No. 11-36914, U.S. Dept. of Interior
(JWle 25, 1979) [hereinafter referred to as the Solicitor's Opinion].

14 weekly Canp. of Pres. Dx. 1043-51 (JWle 6, 1978).

U. S. Dept. of Interior, Second Progress Report on the Implerrentation
of the President's Water Policy Initiatives 16 (Jan. 23, 1979).

C. Wheatley & C. Corker, Stilly of the Developnent, Management, and
Use of \1ater Resources on the Public LJlnS 80 (1969).

F. Trelease, Federal-State Relations in Water Law 257 (1971).

Solicitor's Opinion at n.

438 U.S. 696 (1978).

438 U.S. 645 (1978)

For a general description of state water laws, see R. Dewsnup
& D. Jensen, A Sumnary-Digest of State Water Laws (1973) (a stilly
prepared for the National \'iater Ccmnission) .

California-Oregon Power Co. v. Beaver Portland Cement Co.,
295 U.S. 142 (1935).

n. Id.

12. C. Martz, The Role of the Government in State Water Law,
5 Kan. L. Rev. 626, 633 (1957).

13 E.g., Reclamation Act of 1902, Section 8, State. 390,
43 U.S.C. Sections 372, 383 (1962); Federal Po.~r Act of
1920, Section 27 Stat. 1077, 16 U.S.C. Secti011821 (1952).

14. 32 Stat. 390 (1902), 43 U.S.C. Section 383 (1970).

15. 207 U.S. 564 (1908).

16. F. Trelease, supra note 5 at 105.

17. 373 U.S. 546 (1963).

18. Id.

19. F. Trelease, supra note 5 at 114.

20. Id. at 257.

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