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<br />Resolution Adopt.ed by the BO".rd of Direct.ors
<br />Concerning Ri~I!J:..!!2ct~ Legislation
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<br />\\HEREAS there have been introduce<! : in the ConpreRc of the United St"tes bills t.o
<br />cre,te river authorities, in the basin of M1ss~ul'j. rive.' (S. .555). in the basin
<br />of ~olm,hjn riveI' (S.460) and a bill to Cl'eate nine regional authorities upon
<br />the main rivers of t.he nation (H.R. 1824), .and
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<br />V~EREAS each of the3e bills expressly provides that a Fedel'nl corporation (or an
<br />Administrator) clothed with all the powp,rs of t.he United States and freed from
<br />all the lawful restraints dictated by demoer,tic experience., shall be given com-
<br />plet.e control over the bodies and the uses of such rhers, sh"l1 not be finan-
<br />ciall:, acdf1table to the United St.ates and only incidenta'l)' responslble to the
<br />President end 1,"" "'ongress, and shall be expressl~r exempted from the ,jurisdiction
<br />which the several states do now and have for many years exercised over the uses
<br />of these rivers, and
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<br />VWEHEAS since tho passage of the ~esel't Land Act of 1877 (19 Stat. L 377), the
<br />Supreme Court of the United States has I'epeatedly affirmed that, pursuant to the
<br />provisions of the Act" . . . all surplus waters . . ... . shall rel!lain and be
<br />held free for the appropriation and use of the 'public'. . .," unde.r the laws,
<br />usages and control of the several states, which rulinp,s have repeatedly been ack-
<br />nowledged and followed by the Congress by requiring that water rights acquired by
<br />any agency of, or fot' the Unit<:d States, in the arid West, shnll be obtained in
<br />COnfol'mity with the laws of the several st.ates, and
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<br />VffiEREAS under the laws, usages and eontrols of the stntes, the irrigated West has
<br />built up the whole body of perManent rights to the use of water which have ripen-
<br />ed into valuable propert~, \mich present property rights m,y, by the express
<br />terms of these biD s, be completely extinguished, so that present owners of these
<br />valuable wa.ter rights and intending u""rs of water will .become merely tenants at.
<br />will of the various authorities, and
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<br />V~EREAS users of watel' for irrigation, a necessity of IVestern agriculture, as well
<br />as for any other beneficial purpose, C"-tlnot predicate t.he de.velopnent or the fut-
<br />ure of their ente~rises upon A. ner€! tfJnanc~' in wAtl?r, but Must hAve, as the:, h;we
<br />had since the set tlem"nt of the region bef(nn, th., asSUl"nnc<< of " perl'lRnent right
<br />in the use of water such as that upon which they ha,ve built the cJ.vi1ization of
<br />the entire arid West, nnd
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<br />WHEREAS t~e Bureau of ReclRmation, the CO~p6 of Engineers end other ng~ncies of
<br />the United St.ates have long exercised throu~h their technicolly compe.tent Btnffs
<br />all .the lawful powers sought to b. set up in these sev~rnl river authorities, and
<br />these existinr. agertcies oper"t~ with full responsibl.ll.ty and /ICcountabilit.y, . under
<br />the control of 'the Conp,ress with "~ple provision ~oquiring the consent to and ap-
<br />:'rovql of their pro,1ects by the ste.tes and by the p"ople ',ffected, and
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<br />\"SEREAS tho Tennessee Vlllley Authority, whIch hes operated for Over 10 years has
<br />not in the I, time' demonstrnted its financiel feesibility, made !lde'1uato provIsion
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