WSP00692

• File Number: 8210.470
• Description: Pacific Southwest Interagency Committee
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 1/1/1965
• Author: Unknown
• Title: Colorado River Commission of Nevada - 1965 Report
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

32 REPORT OF COLORADO RIVER COMMISSION OF NEVADA

8. To report to the governor such mcasures and legislative action
as may bc deemed necessary to secure to the people of Nevada all
possible benefits from the water of the Colorado River allocated to
or contracted by the State of Nevada and the power allocated to or
contracted by the State of Nevada to be generated at Hoover Dam
or elsewhere within the Colorado Rivcr stream system or from any
private or federal power development upon other rivers in the west.
ern United States for use in the State of Nevada.
9. To cooperate with and to establish, conduct and mainta.in, in
conjunction with other states or federal agencies, power, water and
irrigation projects.
[Part 7:71:1935; A 1943, 209; 1947,738; 1943 NCL S 1443.07]-
(NRS A 1965, 404)

538.170 Commission to receive, safeguard water, w,ater rights and
power of Colorado Rive.-.
1. 'l'he commission is empowered to receive, protect and safe-
guard and hold in trust for the State of Nevada all water and water
rights, and all other rights, interests or benefits in and to the waters
. of the Colorado River and to the power generated thereon now held
by or which may hereafter accrue to the State of Nevada under and
by virtue of any Act of the Congress of the United States or any
compacts or treaties between statcs to which the Sta.te of Nevada
may become a party, or otherwise.
2. Applications to appropriate such waters shall be made in
accordance with chapter 533 of NRS and sh.all he subject to approval
by the commission as set forth in NRS 533.370.
[Part 7:71:1935; A 1943, 209; 1947,738; 1943 NCL S 1443m]-
(NRS A 1959, 555; 1965, 405)

538.180 Leases, s,ales and contracts of power and water by com.
mission: Procedure; notice and hearing; applicant's bond.
1. The commission shall hold and administer all rights and bene.
fits pertaining to the distribution of the power and water mentioned
in NRS 538.040 to 538.260, inclusive, for the Sta.te of Nevada, and
is empowered to lease, sublease, let; sublet, contract or sell the same
on such terms as the commission sh-all determine.
2. Every applicant, except a federal or s.tate agency or political
subdivision, for power or water to be used within the State of
Nevada shall, before the application is approved, provide an indem.
nifying bond by a corporation qualified under the laws of this state,
or other collateral, approved by the state board of examiners, pay.
able to the Sta.te of Nevada in such sum and in such manner as
the commission may require, conditioned for the full and faithful
performance of such lease, sublease, contract or other agreement.
3. The power and water shall not be sold for less than the actual
cost to the State of Nevada.
4. Before any such sale or lease is made, the same shall be adver.
tised in two papers of general cireulation published in the State of
Nevada for a period of once a week for 2 weeks; and the commission
shall require any person desiring to make objection thereto to file the
objection with the secretary of the commission within 10 days after
the date of the last publication of the notice. If any objection shall
be filed pursuant to such notice then the commission shall set a time
and place for a hearing of the objection not more than 30 days after
the date of the last publication of the notice.