WSP11698

• File Number: 8210.470
• Description: Pacific Southwest Interagency Committee
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 8/6/1964
• Author: Unknown
• Title: Lower Colorado River Basin Project - Report with Individual and Minority Views - To Accompany S 1658 - Calendar Number 1267
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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THE LOWER COLORADO RIVER BASIN PROJECT

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the Secretary; and shall require as a condition precedent to each
contract that there be in effect measures adequate, in his judg-
ment, to control expansion of irrigation from a~uifers affected
by irrigation in the contract service area; and the canals and
distribution systems through which water is conveyed after its
delivery by the United States to the contractor shall be provided
and maintained with linings to the extent, adequate hi his judg- .
ment, to prevent excessive conveyance losses j and long-term
contracts relating to irrigation water supply shall v.rovide that
water made available thereunder may be made available by the
Secretary for municipal or miscellaneous purposes, if and to the
extent that such water is not required by the contractor for
irrigation purposes;
(2) may enter into contracts relating to municipal and indus-
trial water supply from the project without regard to the limita-
tions of the last sentence of section 9(c) of the Reclamation
Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1194) and may provide for the
delivery of such water at an identical price per acre-foot for
water of the same class at the several points of delivery from the
main canals and conduits; and
(3) may require as a condition in any contract under which
water is provided under the project that the contractor agree to
accel?t main stream water in exchange for or in replacement of
existmg supplies from sources other than the main stream, but
no such exchange or replacement shall require a contractor to
bear any cost of said exchange or replacement water in excess
of the costs that would have been incurred in connection with
the continued use by the contractor of its existing supply, nor
shall such exchange or replacement otherwise result in economic
injury to the contractor.
SEC. 106. Upon completion of each unit of the project herein or
hereafter authorized, or separate featme thereof, the Secretary shall.
allocate the total costs of constructing said unit or featme to com-
mercial power, irrigation, municipal and industrial water supply,
flood control, navigation, area redevelopment, recreation, fish and
wildlife, or any other purposes authorized under the Federal reclama-
tion laws. Costs of means and measmes to prevent loss of and damage
to fish and wildlife resources resulting from the construction of the
project shall be considered as project costs and allocated as may be
appropriate among the prol' ect functions. Cost of construction,
operation, and maintenance al ocated to area redevelopment, and other
authorized nonreimbmsable pmposes shall be nonretmnable under the
provisions of this Act. Costs allocated to recreation and fish and
wildlife enhancement shall be nonreimbmsable within appropriate
limits determined by the Secretary to be consistent with the provisions
of law and policy applicable to other similar Federal projects and pro-
grams. On January 1 of each year the Secretary shall report to the
Congress, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, upon the
statu"! of the revenues from and the cost of constructing, operating, and
maintaining the project for the previous fiscal year. The Secretary's
report shall be prepared to reflect accmately the Federal investment
allocated at that time to ,power, to irrigation, and to other purposes,
the progress of retmn and repayment thereon, and the estimated rate
of progress, year by year, in accomplishing full repayment.

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