San Luis Valley Project: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Eighty-first Congress, First Session, on S. 1385, a Bill Providing that Excess-land Provisions of the Federal Reclamation Laws Shall Not Apply to Certain Lands that Will Receive a Supplemental Water Supply from the San Luis Valley Project, Colorado, July 21, 1949U.S. Government Printing Office, 1949 - 55 pages |
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160-acre limitation acre-feet acre-foot acreage ad valorem tax alfalfa All-American Canal apply average bill BREITENSTEIN Bureau of Reclamation CHAIRMAN Colo Colorado Water Conservation Colorado-Big Thompson project committee Conejos County Conejos district Conejos division Conejos River Conejos Water Conservancy contract CORLETT corporate farming crops developed ditch excess excess-land provisions exemption family-size farm farm units farmers Federal reclamation laws growing season hearings high altitude holdings Interior irrigable acres irrigation district KEHLER KRUG land provisions land-limitation provisions landowner legislation LINEWEAVER living Luis Valley project Mexico NELSON owners ownership percent period Platora Reservoir Platoro potatoes public land ranch reregulation reservoir construction Rio Grande division San Luis Valley Secretary Senator ECTON Senator JOHNSON Senator MILLIKIN Senator WATKINS speculation statement subirrigation supplemental water tion upper Rio Wagon Wheel Gap Water Conservancy District Water Conservation Board water rights water supply water table Water Users Association Wheel Gap Reservoir
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Page 20 - No right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding 160 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 21 - 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...
Page 21 - Such contract or contracts with irrigation districts hereinbefore referred to shall further provide that all irrigable land held in private ownership by any one owner in excess of one hundred and sixty irrigable acres shall be appraised in a manner to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior and the sale prices thereof fixed 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 5 - The Colorado-Big Thompson project was specifically exempted under the act of June 16, 1938, which provides: "That the excess-land provisions of the Federal reclamation laws shall not be applicable to lands which now have an irrigation water supply from sources other than a Federal reclamation project and which receive a supplemental supply from the Colorado-Big Thompson project.
Page 21 - ... 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 and at prices not to exceed those fixed by the Secretary of the Interior; and...
Page 14 - I think that is all I have to say, unless there are some questions. The CHAIRMAN.
Page 21 - ... of building and betterment charges shall have been made on account of such land in excess of one farm unit as fixed by the Secretary of the Interior as the limit of area per entry of public land or per single ownership of private land for which a water right may be purchased respectively, nor in any case in excess of one hundred and sixty acres, nor shall water be furnished under said acts nor a water right sold or recognized for such excess...
Page 21 - Interior and that upon proof of fraudulent representation as to the true consideration involved in such sales the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to cancel the water right attaching to the land involved in such fraudulent sales: Provided further.
Page 21 - 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 20 - Provided, That no person shall at any one time or in any manner, except as hereinafter otherwise provided, acquire, own, or hold irrigable land for which entry or water-right application shall have been made under the said reclamation act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, and acts supplementary thereto and amendatory thereof, before final payment in full of all...