Authorizing construction of the San Luis Unit, Central Valley Project, California: hearing before the Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources, of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, first session, on H.R. 4390 ... April 20, 1977U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 - 118 pages |
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acreage limitation acres administration amend appropriation ceiling approved authorized bill BULBULIAN Bureau of Reclamation buyer California Central Valley Project Chairman committee Congress Congressman Sisk construction cost court delta Department distribution and drainage distribution system enforce Eva Feldman excess land laws excess land sales family farmers federal FRAMPTON Fresno Fresno County funds Giffen hearings HIGGINSON indexing Interior irrigation issue Jubil Farms Judith Rogers Kamerman KREBS legislation LLOYD MEEDS Luis interceptor drain MARRIOTT MEEDS memorandum Miller million National Land negotiations operation owners pending amendatory contract problem project water pursuant question Reclamation Act reclamation laws reclamation program reclamation project recordable contract Regional Director repayment contract San Luis Act San Luis Drain San Luis interceptor San Luis Unit San Luis water Secretary Senate Solicitor subcommittee substitute SULLIVAN systems and drains task force Tenneco testimony tion water service contract WEIMAN Westlands contract Westlands district Westlands Water District
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Page 48 - 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 52 - ... 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 tlie Interior and at prices not to exceed those fixed by the Secretary of the Interior...
Page 56 - ... that benefits may be distributed in accordance with the greatest good to the greatest number of individuals. The limitation insures that this enormous expenditure will not go in disproportionate share to a few individuals with large land holdings. Moreover, it prevents the use of the federal reclamation service for speculative purposes. In short, the excess acreage provision acts as a ceiling, imposed equally upon all participants, on the federal subsidy that is being bestowed.
Page 112 - Mr. Chairman, thank you for the opportunity to submit this statement for the record in support of the US Department of Interior Fiscal Year 1988-89 appropriations for water resource development in Arizona.
Page 51 - Interior shall require the owners of private lands thereunder to agree to dispose of all lands in excess of the area which he sluill 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...
Page 56 - As to the claim of discrimination in the 160-acre limitation, we believe that it overlooks the purpose for which the project was designed. The project was designed to benefit people, not land. It is a reasonable classification to limit the amount of project water available to each individual in order that benefits may be distributed in accordance with the greatest good to the greatest number of individuals.
Page 47 - ... the trade of Asia will consume the larger food supplies and effectually prevent Western competition with Eastern agriculture. Indeed, the products of Irrigation will...
Page 50 - States, has emphasized again and again that the primary objective of the law was to make homes. It is not to irrigate the lands which now belong to large corporations or to small ones; it is not to make these men wealthy; but it is to bring about a condition whereby that land shall be put into the hands of the small owner, whereby the man with a family can get enough land to support that family, to become a good citizen, and to have all the comforts and necessities which rightly belong to an American...
Page 11 - ... heartily applauds your proposal to Congress for arts and humanities appropriation of $40,000,000.00 to strengthen the cultural fabric in American life. JW FOSTER, Director, Honolulu, Hawaii. The PRESIDENT, The White House. I have read your message to the Congress on the arts and the humanities and want you to know that I am in full support of the position you have taken. RV HANSBERGEB, President, Boise Cascade Corporation, Boise, Idaho. The PRESIDENT, The White House. Mr. PRESIDENT : On behalf...
Page 51 - 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...