To Authorize the Construction, Operation, and Maintenance

Document: A Bill, February 3, 1967 (photocopy), page 13-12- later than January 1, 1969, the Secretary shall adopt appropriate criteria in accordance with this section and publish the same in the Federal Register. Beginning January 1, 1970, and yearly thereafter, the Secretary shall transmit to the Congress and to the governors of the Colorado River Basin States a report describing the actual operation under the adopted criteria for the preceding compact water year and the projected operation for the current year. As a result of actual operating experience or unforeseen circumstances, the Secretary may thereafter modify the criteria to better achieve the purposes specified in subsection (a) of this section, but only after correspondence with the governors of the seven Colorado River Basin States and appropriate consultation with such state representatives as each governor may designate. (c) Section 7 of the Colorado River Storage Project Act shall be administered in accordance with the foregoing criteria. SEC. 11. (a) Rights of the upper basin to the consumptive use of water apportioned to that basin from the Colorado River system by the Colorado River Compact shall not be reduced or prejudiced by any use of such water in the lower basin. (b) Nothing in this Act shall be construed so as to impair, conflict with or otherwise change the duties and powers of the Upper Colorado River Commission. SEC. 12. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, in constructing, operating, and maintaining the Central Arizona project, the Secretary shall be governed by the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902; 32 Stat. 388 and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto) to which laws this Act shall be deemed a supplement.Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 1,581,024 byte