Bureau of Reclamation Project Feasibilities and Authorizations: A Compilation of Findings of Feasibilities and Authorizations for Bureau of Reclamation Projects of the Department of the InteriorU.S. Government Printing Office, 1949 - 636 pages |
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43 Stat acre-feet acres of land Act of August Act of December Act of June additional allotment amount annual approved August 11 Basin Board of Engineers Boise project Bureau of Reclamation capacity Civilian Conservation Corps Colorado River Congress construction costs contracts cost of construction Creek Department of Agriculture division drainage estimated cost feasible feet flood control flume FRANKLIN D Grand Coulee Dam Hayden Lake Idaho Indian irrigable land irrigation Irrigation District irrigation project June 17 June 25 Lake letter main canal ment miles Milk River necessary operation and maintenance plans President Projects Administration proposed Public Law purposes Reclamation Act reclamation fund reclamation laws Reclamation Project Act Reclamation Service recommend reimbursable repay repayment reservoir respectfully Secretary settlement and farm Signed Solano County storage struction submitted thereof tion Valley Washington Water Conservation water rights water supply water users WHITE HOUSE Yakima
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Page 72 - River compact hereinafter mentioned, is hereby authorized to construct, operate, and maintain a dam and incidental works in the main stream of the Colorado River at Black Canyon or Boulder Canyon adequate to create a storage reservoir of a capacity of not less than twenty million acre-feet of water...
Page 193 - State wherein the impoundment, diversion, or other control facility is to be constructed...
Page 178 - Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, for the construction, completion, repair, and preservation of the public works hereinafter named: ***** Sec.
Page 181 - If any provision of this Act, or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances, shall be held invalid, the remainder of this Act, or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby.
Page 227 - War determines, upon recommendation by the Secretary of the Interior that any dam and reservoir project operated under the direction of the Secretary of War may be utilized for irrigation purposes, the Secretary of the Interior, is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain, under the provisions of the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17,. 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto), such additional works in connection therewith as he may deem necessary for...
Page 23 - Congress, third session, with such modifications thereof as in the discretion of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers may be advisable...
Page 77 - That no new project or new division of a project shall be approved for construction or estimates submitted therefor by the Secretary until information in detail shall be secured by him concerning the water supply, the engineering features, the cost of construction, land prices, and the probable cost of development, and he shall have made a finding in writing that it is feasible, that it is adaptable for actual settlement and farm homes, and that it will probably return the cost thereof to the United...
Page 378 - Stat. 115, 118), section 55 of Title I of the act of August 24, 1935 (49 Stat. 750, 781), the act of July 22, 1937 (50 Stat.
Page 3 - ... except under the homestead laws, any public lands believed to be susceptible of irrigation from said works : Provided, That all lands entered and entries made under the homestead laws within areas so withdrawn during such withdrawal shall be subject to all the provisions, limitations, charges, terms, and conditions of this Act...
Page 199 - June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, shall be begun unless and until the same shall have been recommended by the Secretary of the Interior and approved by the direct order of the President of the United States.