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12 UPDATING THE HOOVER DAM DOCUMENTS <br /> Section 1 provided for four storage projects for river regulation and power production: <br /> I <br /> Glen Canyon on the Colorado River in Arizona; <br /> Flaming Gorge on the Green River in Utah; <br /> Navajo on the San Juan River in New Mexico; and <br /> Curecanti on the Gunnison River in Colorado. <br /> It also authorized 11 participating projects for irrigation and related uses and further investigation of other <br /> projects. <br /> Section 5 established the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund into which revenues collected in connection <br /> with the operation of the storage project and participating projects are to be credited and are to be available <br /> for repaying the costs of operation, maintenance, and replacement of, and emergency expenditures for, all <br /> facilities of said projects, payment from which for Hoover Darn Powerplant deficiencies pursuant to the Filling <br /> Criteria has upset the Upper Basin States. <br /> Section 7 provided that the hydroelectric powerplants and transmission lines authorized by the Act shall be <br /> operated in conjunction with other Federal powerplants, present and potential, so as to produce the greatest <br /> practicable amount of power and energy that can be sold at firm power and energy rates, but in the exercise <br /> of that authority the Secretary shall not affect or interfere with the operation of the provisions of the Colorado <br /> River Compact, the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact, the Boulder Canyon Project Ac #, the Boulder <br /> Canyon Project Adjustment Act and any contract lawfully entered into under said Compacts and Acts. This <br /> section was relied upon by the Lower Basin States as protecting their power contracts when the Filling Criteria <br /> # <br /> was promulgated on April 12, 1962 (see L. hereof). <br /> Section 14 required that in the operation and maintenance of all facilities authorized by Federal law in the <br /> Colorado River Basin, the Secretary is directed to comply with the Compacts and Acts enumerated in Sec- <br /> tion 7 and with the Mexican Water Treaty in the storage and release of water from reservoirs in the Basin. It <br /> • further authorized any Basin State to sue in the Supreme Court to enforce these provisions and consented to <br /> the joinder of the United States as a party. <br /> Section 15 directed the Secretary to continue studies and to make a report to the Congress and to the <br /> i ' - Basin States on the quality of the water of the Colorado River. <br /> The Project Storage Units have these major functions: <br /> (1) To regulate streamflows so that water commitments to the Lower Basin can be met in dry periods <br /> ;': i without curtailment of development of water uses apportioned to the Upper Basin; and <br /> (2) To provide hydroelectric power and produce revenues to assist in the payment of the participating <br /> projects. 1 H. i for text of <br /> Further details are contained in Chapter III entitled "Power Contracts" (see App <br /> • Colorado River Project Storage Act) . <br /> I. Arizona u. California <br /> i <br /> 1 Following execution of the Arizona Water Delivery Contract on February 9, 1944, the Bureau of Recla- <br /> ' mation, in cooperation with Arizona, studied the Central Arizona Project (CAP). An Interior report submitted <br /> to Congress on September 16, 1948, concluded that CAP was feasible if Arizona's claim" to water were valid, <br /> but if California's contention was found correct that Arizona's claims to water were not valid, there would be <br /> no dependable water . supply for diversion to Arizona. <br /> In the 79th through the 82nd Congresses, Arizona sought approval of CAP. Although the Senate passed <br /> CAP bills in ted or agreed upon. tee 1950 <br /> adaod d a resolution that CAP action be deferred unti5rightse Interior <br /> to the use of water are Insular <br /> djudi- <br /> fairs Committee p <br /> ca <br /> The inability of the three Lower Basin States to agree on the sharing of the Colorado River Compact water <br /> and the position adopted by Congress in 1951 that it would not authorize the long sought Central Arizona <br /> Project, opposed by California until Arizona's right to the necessary Colorado River water supply was <br /> clarified, led to the Supreme Court suit filed by Arizona in 1952. <br />