Statement of U.S. Senator Thomas H. Kuchel

Document: Statement of Senator Thomas Kuchel on H.R. 3300, March 13, 1967, page 4-4- Upper Basin and Lower Basin reservoirs. The two reservoirs should go up and down together. (5) We agree upon the authorization for construction of five Upper Basin projects. (6) We agree to reimbursement of the Upper Colorado River Basin fund for prior payments out of that fund to compensate reduction of the power operations at Hoover Dam occasioned by filling of Lake Powell. The bills spell out the method. (7) We agree upon the authorization for construction of Bridge Canyon (Hualapai) Dam and Power Plant, and for creation of a basin account to help finance the Central Arizona project and importation works, fed by revenues from Hualapai Dam and by revenues from Hoover, Davis and Parker Dams after they have paid out. I have gone along on the elimination of Marble Canyon Dam. But if this source of revenue is removed, I have proposed that Arizona, not the development fund, pay the cost of any increase in size of the Central Arizona aqueduct above the 1,800 c.f.s. project described by the Bureau of Reclamation in its cost estimate last year. (8) We agree to the authorization for the construction of the Central Arizona Project, as part of the regional plan. But we agree only on the condition that, if the water supply of the Colorado River is insufficient to satisfy the requirements of the projects already in existence or heretofore authorized by Congress for construction in Arizona, California and Nevada, these existing uses shall be protected. This is subject to the limitation on California's protection imposed by the Boulder Canyon Project Act. The effect is that when the supply drops to 7.5 million acre-Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 975,468 byte