WSP12637

• File Number: 8282.300
• Description: Colorado River Operations and Accounting - Lower Basin Administrative Procedures
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 8/1/1996
• Author: DOI-BOR
• Title: Description and Assessment of Operations-Maintenance and Sensitive Species of the Lower Colorado River - Volume I - Report - 08-01-96
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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member and is obligated to follow the guidelines declared by the WSCC.

43 CFR Part 431:

The "General Regulations for Power Generation, Operation, Maintenance, and Replacement
at the Boulder Canyon Project, Arizona/Nevada," are provided in 43 CFR Part 431.
Although Reclamation cannot violate this or any CFR, such CFR's are subject to revision.
The following authorities provided the legal basis for 43 CFR Part 431:

· Reclamation Act of 1902 (32 Stat. 388),

· Boulder Canyon Project Act of 1928 (43 U.S.C. 617 et seq.),

· Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act of 1940 (43 U.S.C. 618 et seq.),

· Colorado River Storage Project Act of 1956 (43 U.S.C. 620 et seq.),

· Colorado River Basin Project Act of 1968 (43 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.), and

· Hoover Power Plant Act of 1984 (98 Stat. 1333).

The following definitions are included in ~ 431.3:

Colorado River. Dam Fund or Fund shall mean that special fund established by
section 2 of the: Project Act and which is to be used only for the purposes
specified in the Project Act, the Adjustment Act, the Colorado River Basin
Project Act, and the Hoover Power Plant Act.

Contractor shall mean any entity which has a fully executed contract with
W AP A for electric service pursuant to the Hoover Power Plant Act.

Proiect or Boulder Canyon Project shall mean all works authorized by the
Project Act, the Hoover Power Plant Act, and any future additions authorized
by Congress, to be constructed and owned by the United States, but exclusive
of the main canal and appurtenances authorized by the Project Act, now
known as the All-American Canal.

Replacements shall mean such work, materials, equipment, or facilities as
determined by the United States to be necessary to keep the Project in good
operating condition, but shall not include (except where used in conjunction
with the word "emergency" or the phrase "however necessitated") work,
materials, equipment, or facilities made necessary by any act of God, or of the
public enemy, or by any major catastrophe.

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