Will the Family Farm Survive in America?: Joint Hearings Before the Select Committee on Small Business and the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, First [and Second] Session[s] ....U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975 |
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57th Congress acre-feet acre-foot Act of August Act of June administration agricultural All-American Canal amended appraisal ARID LANDS Article August 9 authorized benefits bill Bureau of Reclamation California Central Valley Project Commissioner Congress construction charges Contracting Officer corporations delivery of water Delta-Mendota Canal Department distribution system drainage eligible enforcement entry Excess Land Law excess of 160 execution farm unit FEDERAL RECLAMATION LAW funds furnished groundwater holdings Imperial Irrigation District Imperial Valley Insular Affairs Interior and Insular irrigable land irrigation districts joint-use facilities legislation lend Letter dated Memorandum dated ment National Farmers Union owner payment private lands private ownership proposed public lands pumping purchase purposes pursuant receive water Reclamation Act reclamation projects recordable contract SAN LUIS PROJECT San Luis unit Secretary Section 46 Senator NELSON service area Solicitor speculation Stat thereof tion tracts water right water supply water users Westlands District Westlands Water District Yellen
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Page 533 - No right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract, exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to any one landowner, and no such sale shall be made to any landowner unless he be an actual bona fide resident on such land, or occupant thereof residing in the neighborhood of said land, and no such right shall permanently attach until all payments therefor are made.
Page 330 - What do we want with this vast, worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs?
Page 511 - Interior and the sale prices thereof affixed by the Secretary on the basis of its actual bona fide value at the date of appraisal without reference to the proposed construction of the irrigation works; and...
Page 703 - They were themselves, either from their original condition, or from the necessity of their common interest, nearly on a general level in respect to property. Their situation demanded a parcelling out and division of the lands, and it may be fairly said, that this necessary act fixed the future frame and form of their government. The character of their political institutions was determined by the fundamental laws respecting property.
Page 415 - ... no such excess lands so held shall receive water from any project or division if the owners thereof shall refuse to execute valid recordable contracts for the sale of such lands under terms and conditions satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior...
Page 511 - Interior; and that until one-half the construction charges against said lands shall have been fully paid no sale of any such lands shall carry the right to receive water unless and until the purchase price involved in such sale is approved by the Secretary of the Interior...
Page 393 - Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder, and the Secretary of the Interior, in carrying out the provisions of this Act, shall proceed in conformity with such laws, and nothing herein shall in any way affect any right of any State or of the Federal Government or of any landowner, appropriator, or user of water in, to, or from any interstate stream or the waters thereof.
Page 394 - ... public lands which it is proposed to irrigate by means of any contemplated works shall be subject to entry only under the provisions of the homestead laws...
Page 312 - ... the House of Representatives or the Senate is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three calendar days to a day certain) from the date on which the Secretary's findings and approval are submitted to the Congress...
Page 485 - That before any contract is let or work begun for the construction of any reclamation project hereafter adopted the Secretary of the Interior shall require the owners of private lands thereunder to agree to dispose of all lands in excess of the area which he shall deem sufficient for the support of a family upon the land in question, upon such terms and at not to exceed such price as the Secretary of the Interior may designate...