WSP00620

• File Number: 8220.100.40
• Description: CRSP
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 3/14/1963
• Author: USDOI
• Title: Sixth Annual Report on the Statuts of the Colorado River Storage Project
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

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CqLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJEOT

regulation No.1, relative to reimbursement of the Upper Oolorado
River Basin fund from eharges for electrical energy to be made at the
Hoover powerplant subsequent to June 1, 1987, would not appear to
be anthorized by existing law, but rather to be in conflict therewith.
Section 5 of the Boulder Oanyon Proj ect Act, to which reference is
made in said article 5, does not authorize sueh regulation. This
section in part reads as follows.
Mter the repaymen:ts to the United States'of all money advauQed with interest'
charges shall be on 8\1oh basis and the revenues derived therefrom shall be kept
in a separate fund to ibe. expended within the Colorado River Basin as may here~
after be prescribed by the Congress.
The Oongress has not taken action up to the present time in this
regard excepting in the Boulder Oanyon Project Adjustment Act.
Section 2 of the Adi'ustment Act provides in part that all receipts
from the projeet shal be paid into the Oolorado River Dam fund and
shall be available for the particular matters therein specified, none of
which includes reimbursement of the Upper Oolorado River Basin
fund. In addition, section 7 of the act of April 11, 1956, providing
for the Oolorado 'River storage project and participating projects
provides in part that "in the exercise of the authority hereby granted
he [the Secretary] ,shall not affect or interfere with the operation of
the provisions of the Oolorado River compact, the Upper Oolorado
River Basin compact, the Boulder Oanyon Projeet Act, the Boulder
Oanyon Project Adjustment Act, and any contract lawIUlly entered
into under said compacts and acts."
Respectfully submitted.

JAMES F. DAVElNPORT.

I '
OOMMENTS ON JUNE 13, 1961, MEMORANDUM FROM OOMMISSIONER
OF RECLAMATION TO THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
i
Upon receipt of ,he June 13, 1961, memorandum the Secretary
requested the views and comments of various npper and lower basin
interests. The following comments were received.

U.S. SENA1'E,
COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSUI,AR AFFAIRS,
, Albuquerque, N.Mex., August 25, 1961.
Hon. STEWART L. UDALL,
Secretary of the Interior,
Department of the Interior.
DEAR MR. SElCRETARY: Thank you for your letter of Jllne 13, 1961,
in whieh you sta~ed that you have received from Oommissioner
Dominy a firm recommendation concerning the operation of Glen
Oanyon Dam duripg. the filling period ~llld in which you enclosed a
copy of the Oommissioner's memorandum and other pertinent data.
I appreeiate very much the opportunity to submit my comments with
reference to this extremely important question. .
I will confine mJ( r~marks in ,his letter to those of a general nature,
preferring to leave the engineering and hydrologic technicalities to the
upper basin enginesring committee and the engineers of New Mexico
who have been stu<\ying this problem for several years.
The Oommissioner's memorandum of June 13 proposes that upper
basin energy or money that would otherwise acerue to the upper bttsin