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<br />031238 <br />BLACK CANYON INFORMATION PAPI:R <br /> <br />Oct. 2000 <br /> <br />signatory State for consumptive use in a lower signatory State, when such use is within the <br />apportionment to such lower State made by this Compact. Such rights shall be subject to the <br />rights of water users, in a State in which such reservoirs or works are located, to receive and use <br />water, the use of which is within the apportionment to such State by this Compact. <br /> <br />Article XIX "Nothing in this Compact shall be construed as: . . . (c) Affecting any rights or <br />powers of the United States of America, its agencies or instrumentalities, in or to the waters of <br />the Upper Colorado River System, or its capacity to acquire rights in and to the use of said <br />waters;" <br /> <br />Colorado River Storage Project Act: <br />Section 1 states the purpose of the CRSP: III order to initiate the comprehensive development of <br />the water resources of the Upper Colorado River Basin, for the purposes, among others, of <br />regulating the flow of the Colorado River, storing water for beneficial consumptive use. making <br />it possible for the States of the Upper Basin lo utilize, consistently with the provisions of the <br />Colorado River Compact, the apportionments made to and among them in the Colorado River <br />Compact, and the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact, respectively, andfor the generation of <br />hydroelectric power, as an incident to the foregoing purposes, the Secretary of the Interior is <br />hereby authorized: <br /> <br />(1) To construct, operate, and maintain the following initial units of the Colorado River storage <br />project, consisting of dams, reservoirs, powerplants, transmission facilities and appurtenant <br />works: Curecanti, Flaming Gorge, Navajo (dam and reservoir only), and Glen Canyon: <br />Provided., That the Curecanti Dam shall be constructed to a height which will impound not less <br />than nine hundred and forty thousand acre-feet of water or will create a reservoir of such <br />greater capacity as can be obtained by a high waterline located at seven thousand fIVe hundred <br />and twenty feet above mean sea level, and that construction thereof shall not be undertaken until <br />the Secretary has, on the basis of further engineering and economic investigations, reexamined <br />the economic justification of such unit and, accompanied by appropriate documentation in the <br />form of a supplemental report, has certified to the Congress and to the President that, in his <br />judgment. the benefits of such unit will exceed its costs; . . . <br /> <br />Section 7 states: The hydroelectric power plants and transmission lines authorizedhy this Act to <br />be constructed, operated, and maintained by the Secretary shall be operated in conjunction with <br />other Federal powerplants, present and potential, so as to produce the greatest practicable <br />amount of power and energy that can be sold at firm power and energy rates, but in the exercise <br />of the authority hereby granted he shall not affect or inteifere with the operation of the <br />provisions of the Colorado River Compact, the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact, the <br />Boulder Canyon Project Act, the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act, and arry contract <br />lawfully entered into under said Compacts and Acts. Subject to the provisions of the Colorado <br />River Compact, neither the impounding nor lhe use of water for the generation of power and <br />energy at the plants of the Colorado River szorage project shall preclude or impair the <br />appropriation of water for domestic or agricultural purposes pursuant to applicable State law. <br /> <br />A-4 <br /> <br />, ' <br />