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Water Supply Protection
File Number
8282.500.20.A
Description
Colorado River Operations
Basin
Colorado Mainstem
Date
7/25/1969
Author
USDOI/BOR
Title
Meeting of Federal and State Representatives for Review of Basic Data Pertinent to the Preparation of Operating Criteria for the Colorado Pursuant to Section 602 of Public Law 90-537
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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />bills to authorize the project in 1950, 1951, and 1967, but none <br /> <br /> <br />reached the House floor until 1968. Failure of a bill to clear the <br /> <br /> <br />House Interior Committee in 1951 lead to the l3-year-long legal <br /> <br /> <br />action, Arizona v. California - the longest and most costly water <br /> <br /> <br />suit in history. A Supreme Court decision came in mid 1963 fol- <br /> <br /> <br />lowed by the Court's decree in March 1964, implementing its deci- <br /> <br /> <br />sion which opened the way for the legislative enactment. <br /> <br />The Colorado River Basin Act - Public Law 90-537 of September 30, <br /> <br /> <br />1968 - authorized the $832 million Central Arizona Project (CAP) <br /> <br /> <br />to pump water from Lake Havasu on the Colorado River and transport <br /> <br /> <br />it some 300 miles to the Phoenix-Tucson area of central Arizona. <br /> <br />The legislative requirements for the coordinated long-range operating <br /> <br /> <br />criteria for the Colorado River system was established by Section 602 <br /> <br /> <br />of Title VI of P.L. 90-537. This section states in part (a) that <br /> <br /> <br />" * * * the Secretary shall propose criteria for the coordinated <br /> <br /> <br />long-range operation of the reservoirs constructed and operated under <br /> <br /> <br />the authority of the COlorado River Storage Project Act, the Boulder <br /> <br /> <br />Canyon Project Act, and the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act * * *." <br /> <br />Section 602(b). further direct that "Not later than January 1, 1970, <br /> <br /> <br />the criteria proposed in accordance with the foregoing subsection (a) <br /> <br /> <br />of this section shall be submitted to the governors of the seven <br /> <br />2 <br />
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