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<br />"Maintenance" as used herein shall be deemed to include in each instance provision for keeping the works
<br />in`good operating condition.
<br />"The Federal Water Power Act," as used in this Act, shall be understood to mean that certain Act of Con -
<br />gress of the United States approved June 10, 1920, entitled "An Act to create a Federal Power Commission;
<br />to provide for the improvement of navigation; the development of water power; the use of the public lands in
<br />relation thereto; and to repeal section 18 of the River and Harbor Appropriation Act, approved August 8,
<br />1917, and for other purposes," and the Acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto.
<br />"Domestic" whenever employed in this Act shall include water uses defined as "domestic" in said Colorado
<br />River compact.
<br />SEC. 18. (a) The Colorado River compact signed at Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 24, 1922, pursuant
<br />to Act of Congress approved August 19, 1921, entitled "An Act to permit a compact or agreement between
<br />the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming respecting the
<br />disposition and apportionment of the waters of the Colorado River, and_ for other purposes," is hereby ap-
<br />proved by the Congress of the United States, and the provisions of the first paragraph of .article 11 of the said
<br />Colorado River compact, making said compact binding and obligatory. When it shall have been approved by
<br />the legislature of each of the signatory States, are hereby waived, and,this approval shall become effective
<br />when the State of California and at least five of the other States mentioned, shall have approved or may
<br />hereafter approve said compact as aforesaid and shall consent to such ' waiver, as herein provided.
<br />(b) The rights of the United States in or to waters of the Colorado River and its tributaries howsoever
<br />claimed or acquired, as well as the rights of those claiming under the United States, shall be subject to and
<br />controlled by said Colorado River compact.
<br />(c) Also all patents, grants, contracts, concessions, leases., permits, licenses, rights -of -way, or other
<br />privileges from the United States or under its authority, necessary or convenient for the use of waters of the
<br />Colorado River or its tributaries, or for the generation or transmission of electrical energy generated by means
<br />of the waters of said river or its tributaries, whether under this Act, the Federal Water Power Act, or other-
<br />wise, shall be upon the express condition and with the express covenant that the rights of. the recipients or
<br />holders thereof to waters of the river or its tributaries, for the use of which the same are necessary, conve-
<br />nient, or incidental, and the use of the same shall likewise be subject to and controlled by said Colorado River
<br />compact.
<br />(d) The conditions and covenants referred to herein shall be deemed to run with the land and the right, in-
<br />terest, or privilege therein and water right, and shall attach as a matter of law, whether set out or referred to in
<br />the instrument evidencing any such patent, grant, contract, concession,' lease;. permit, license, right -of -way,
<br />or other privilege from the United States or under its authority, or not, and _ shall be deemed. to be for the
<br />benefit of and be available to the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevadan New. Mexico-, Utah,. and
<br />Wyoming, and the users of water therein or thereunder, by way .of suit, defense, or otherwise, in any litiga-
<br />tion respecting the waters of the Colorado River or its tributaries.
<br />SEC. 14: This Act shall be deemed a supplement to the reclamation law, which said reclamation law shall
<br />govern the construction, operation, and management of the works :herein authorized, except as otherwise
<br />herein provided.
<br />SEC. 15. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to .make- investigation and public reports of
<br />the feasibility of projects for irrigation,. generation of electric power, and other purposes in .the. States of
<br />-Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico; Utah; and Wyoming for the purpose of making such information
<br />available to said States and to the Congress, and of formulating a comprehensive - scheme of control: and .the
<br />improvement and utilization of the water of the Colorado 1 River and its tributaries The sum of $250,000 is
<br />hereby authorized to be appropriated from said Colorado River Dam fund, created by section 2 of this Act,
<br />for such purposes.
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