The Lower Colorado River Basin Project Senate Report

Document: 88th Congress, 2d Session, Senate Calendar No. 1267, The Lower Colorado River Basin Project, Report No. 1330, Agust 6, 1964, page 27[This measure was introduced by Messrs. Hayden and Goldwater, and is printed as reported and amended by the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.] 88TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION S. 1658 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES A BILL To authorize the construction, operation, and maintenance of the Lower Colorado River Basin project, and for other purposes TITLE I-LOWER COLORADO RIVER BASIN PROJECT SEC. 101. That (a) this Act may be cited as the "Lower Colorado River Basin Project Act". (b) It is the object of this Act to provide a program for the further comprehensive development of the water resources of the Lower Colorado River Basin for the purposes, among others, of regulating the flow of the Colorado River, controlling floods, improving navigation, providing delivery of the stored waters of the Colorado River for reclamation of lands, including supplemental water supplies, and for municipal and industrial purposes, providing for adequate water quality, providing for basic public outdoor recreation facilities, improvement of conditions for fish and wildlife and other beneficial uses, generation and sale of hydroelectric power as an incident of the foregoing purposes, conservation, and beneficial utilization of the limited water supplies of the Lower Colorado River Basin, and the eventual provision of additional water for use in the Lower Colorado River Basin. It is the policy of the Congress that the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the "Secretary") shall continue to develop, after consultation with affected States and appropriate Federal agencies, a regional water plan, consistent with the provisions of this Act and with future authorizations, to serve as the framework under which projects, whether heretofore constructed in the Lower Colorado River Basin or herein and hereafter authorized, may be coordinated and constructed with proper timing. The term, "the Lower Colorado River Basin", as used herein, shall mean the lower basin as defined in article II (g) of the Colorado River compact. SEC. 102. (a) There is hereby authorized a separate fund in the Treasury of the United States, to be known as the Lower Colorado River Basin development fund (hereinafter called the "development fund"), which shall remain available until expended, as hereafter provided, for carrying out the purposes of this Act. (b) All appropriations made for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of section 4 of this Act shall be credited to the development fund as advances from the general fund of the Treasury. 27Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 1,540,140 byte