WSPC07474

• File Number: 8210.761.09.C
• Description: Colorado River-Federal Agencies-US NPS-Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 1/1/3000
• Title: Legislation to Make BC a National Park-Wild and Scenic Rivers Act Amendments
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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or otherwise in the construction of any water resources project that would
have a direct and adverse effect on the values for which such river was
established, as determined by the Secretary charged with its administra-
tion. Nothing contained in the foregoing sentence, however, shall pre-
clude licensing of, or assistance to, developments below or above a
wild, scenic or recreational river area or on any stream tributary thereto
which will not invade the area or unreasonably diminish the scenic,
recreatlOnal, and fish and wildlife values present in the area on the
date of approval of thiS Act. No department Or agency of the United
States shall recommend authorization of any water resources project
that would have a direct and adverse effect on the values for which such
river was established, as determined by the Secretary charged with its
administration, or request appropriations to begin construction of any
such project, whether heretofore Or hereafter authorized, without advis-
ing the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture, as the
case may be, in writing of its intention so to do at least sixty days in
advance, and without speCifically reporting to the Congress in writing
at the time it makes its recommendation or request in what respect
construction of such project would be in conflict with the purposes of
this Act and would affect the component and the values to be protected
by it under thi s Act.

(b) The Federal Power CommisslOn shall not license the con-
struction of any darn, water conduit, reservoir, powerhouse, transmission
line, or other project works under the Federal Power Act, as amended, or
directly affecting any river which is listed in sectlOn S, subsection (a),
of this Act, and no department or agency of the Umted States shall assist
by loan, grant, lJcense, or otherwise in the construction of any water
resources project that would have a direct and adverse effect on the values
for which such river might be designated, as determined by the Secretary
responsible for its study or approval--

(i) during the five-year period followrng enactment of
this Act unless, prior to the expiration of said period, the Secre-
tary of the Interior and, where national forest lands are involved,
the Secretary of Agriculture, on the basis of study, conclude that
such river should not be included in the nationa I wild and scenic
rivers system and publish notice to that effect in the Federal
Register, and

(ii) dunng such additional period thereafter as, in the
case of any river which is recommended to the President and the
Congress for inclusion in the national wild and scenic rivers
system, is necessary for congressional consideration thereof

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