WSP07057

• File Number: 8141.600.20
• Description: Fryingpan-Arkansas Project - Studies - Environmental Studies
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 4/16/1975
• Author: US DoI BoR
• Title: Final Environmental Impact Statement Volume 1 of 2, Pages IX-34 to Appendix
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: EIS

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(c) None of the waters of the Colorado River system
shall be exported from the natural basin of that system
by means of works constructed under authority of this Act,
or extensions and enlargements of such works, to the
Arkansas River Basin for consumptive use outside of the
State of Colorado, and no such waters shall be made
available for consumptive use in any State not a party
to the Colorado River compact by exchange or substitution;
nor shall the obligations of the State of Colorado under
the provisions of the Arkansas River compact (63 Stat. 1~5)
be altered by any operations of the Fryingpan-Arkansas
project.
(d) No right or claim of right to the use of the waters
of the Colorado River system shall be aided or prejudiced
by this Act, and the Congress does not, by its enactment,
construe or interpret any provision of the Colorado River
compact, the Upper Colorado River Basin compact, the
Boulder Canyon Pro~ect Act, the Boulder Canyon Project
Adjustment Act, the Colorado River Storage Project Act,
or the Mexican Water Treaty or subject the United States
to, or approve or disapprove any interpretation of, said
compacts, statutes, or treaty, anything in this Act to
the contrary notwithstanding.
(e) In the operation and maintenance of all facilities
under the jurisdiction and supervision of the Secretary
of the Interior authorized by this Act, the Secretary of
the Interior is directed to comply with the applicable
provisions of the Colorado River compact, the Upper
Colorado River Basin compact, the Boulder Canyon Project
Act, the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act, the Colo-
rado River Storage Project Act (and any contract lawfully
entered into by the United States under any of said Acts),
the treaty with the United Mexican States, and the opera-
ting ;:>rinciples, and to comply with the la1<s of the State
of Colorado relating to the centrol, appropriation, use,
and distribution of water therein. In the event of the
failure of the Secretary of the Interior ~o so comply,
any State of the Colorado Riv~r Basin may maintain an
action in the Supreme Ccurt of the United States to en-
force the provi~ions of this sectio~ and consent is given
to the joinder of the United States as a party in such
sui t or suits, as a defendant or otl1erwise.
Sec. 6. The Secretary of the Interior is directed to
continue his stu<!.ies of the qU31i ty of water of the Colo-
rado River system, to appraise its Auitability for muni-
cipal, domestic, and in,iustrial use and for irrigation in
the various areas in the United States in which it is
used or. proposed to be used, to estimate the effect of
additional developments involving its storage and use
(whether heretofore authorized or contemplated for author-
ization) on the remaining water available for use in the
United States, to study all possible meacs of improving

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45 Stat. 1057.
43 use 617t,
54 Stat. 774.
43 use 6180.
70 Stat, 10S.
43 use 620-
6200.
59 Stat. 1219.

76 STAT. 392.
76 STAT, 393