Protection and Development of Lower Colorado River Basin: Information Presented to the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, House of Representatives, Sixty-eighth Congress, First Session, in Connection with B.R. 2903 by Mr. Swing. A Bill to Provide for the Protection and Development of the Lower Colorado River Basin. Hearings Before the Federal Power Commission ..., Bagian 8U.S. Government Printing Office, 1924 - 212 halaman |
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Halaman 45 - State all land actually or prospectively valuable for the development of water powers or power for hydro-electric use or transmission and which shall be ascertained and designated by the Secretary of the Interior within five years after the...
Halaman 202 - The major purposes of this compact are to provide for the equitable division and apportionment of the use of the waters of the Colorado River System ; to establish the relative importance of different beneficial uses of water ; to promote interstate comity ; to remove causes of present and future controversies ; and to secure the expeditious agricultural and industrial development of the Colorado River Basin, the storage of its waters and the protection of life and property from floods.
Halaman 45 - Subject to the provisions of this compact, water of the Colorado River System may be impounded and used for the generation of electrical power, but such impounding and use shall be subservient to the use and consumption of such water for agricultural and domestic purposes and shall not interfere with or prevent use for such dominant purposes.
Halaman 8 - State or municipality for the purpose of constructing, operating, and maintaining dams, water conduits, reservoirs, power houses, transmission lines, or other project works necessary or convenient for the development and improvement of navigation and for the development, transmission, and utilization of power...
Halaman 70 - Satisfactory evidence that the applicant has complied with the requirements of the laws of the State or States within which the proposed project is to be located with respect to bed and banks and to the appropriation, diversion, and use of water for power purposes and with respect to the right to engage in the business of developing, transmitting, and distributing power, and in any other business necessary to effect the purposes of a license under this Act.
Halaman 207 - States shall withhold water and none shall require the delivery of water, which can not reasonably be applied to domestic and agricultural uses...
Halaman 132 - I hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of resolution adopted by the board of directors of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce at the regular meeting held August 30, 1923.
Halaman 11 - That all licenses issued under this Act shall be on the following conditions : (a) That the project adopted, including the maps, plans, and specifications, shall be such as in the judgment of the commission will be best adapted to a comprehensive scheme of improvement and utilization for the purposes of navigation, of water-power development, and of other beneficial public uses...
Halaman 42 - ... for purposes of navigation, of water-power development, and of other beneficial public uses. In reaching decision thereon the Commission will consider : A. Whether the maps, plans, and specifications are such : (1) That full, practicable utilization will be made of the water, storage possibilities, and...
Halaman 207 - The States of the upper division will not cause the flow of the river at Lee Ferry to be depleted below an aggregate of 75,000,000 acre-feet for any period of 10 consecutive years reckoned in continuing progressive series beginning with the first day of October next succeeding the ratification of this compact.