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<br />BLACK CANYON INFORMATION PAPER
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<br />Oct. 2000
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<br />signatory State for consumptive use in a low<!r 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,
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<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 ag,encies or instrumentalities, in or to the waters of
<br />the Upper Colorado River System, or its capac;ity to acquire rights in and to the use of said
<br />waters;" .
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<br />Colorado River Storage Project Act:
<br />Section I states the purpose -ofthe CRSP:' III order to initiate the comprehensive development of
<br />the water resources oj the Upper Colorado River Basin, for the purposes, among others, of
<br />regulating the flow of the Colorado River, st,?ring water for beneficial consumptive use, making
<br />it possible for the States of the Upper Basin /0 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'
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<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 (dfJ'm 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 jeet 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 10 the Congress and to the President that, in his
<br />judgment, the benefits of such unit will exceed its costs; , . ,
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<br />Section 7 states: The hydroelectric power plants alld transmission lines authorized by this Act to
<br />be constructed, operated, and maintained by the Secretary shall be operated in conjunction with
<br />other Federal power plants, present and potenNal, so as to produce the greatest practicable
<br />amount oj 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 <'y7ect or interfere 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 Acijustment Act, and any 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 slOrage project shall preclude or impair the
<br />appropriation of water for domestic or agricultural purposes pursuant to applicable State law,
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