§ 617g. — Colorado River compact as controlling authority in construction and maintenance of dam, reservoir, canals, and other works.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC617g]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 12A--BOULDER CANYON PROJECT
SUBCHAPTER I--BOULDER CANYON PROJECT ACT
Sec. 617g. Colorado River compact as controlling authority in
construction and maintenance of dam, reservoir, canals, and
other works
(a) The United States, its permittees, licensees, and contractees,
and all users and appropriators of water stored, diverted, carried, and/
or distributed by the reservoir, canals, and other works herein,
authorized shall observe and be subject to and controlled by said
Colorado River compact in the construction, management, and operation of
said reservoir, canals, and other works and the storage, diversion,
delivery, and use of water for the generation of power, irrigation, and
other purposes, anything in this subchapter to the contrary
notwithstanding, and all permits, licenses, and contracts shall so
provide.
(b) Also the United States, in constructing, managing, and operating
the dam, reservoir, canals, and other works herein authorized in
including the appropriation, delivery, and use of water for the
generation of power, irrigation, or other uses, and all users of water
thus delivered and all users and appropriators of waters stored by said
reservoir and/or carried by said canal, including all permittees and
licensees of the United States or any of its agencies, shall observe and
be subject to and controlled, anything to the contrary herein
notwithstanding, by the terms of such compact, if any, between the
States of Arizona, California, and Nevada, or any two thereof, for the
equitable division of the benefits, including power, arising from the
use of water accruing to said States, subsidiary to and consistent with
said Colorado River compact, which may have been negotiated and approved
by said States and to which Congress shall have given its consent and
approval on or before January 1, 1929; and the terms of any such compact
concluded between said States and approved and consented to by Congress
after said date: Provided, That in the latter case such compact shall be
subject to all contracts, if any, made by the Secretary of the Interior
under section 617d of this title prior to the date of such approval and
consent by Congress.
(Dec. 21, 1928, ch. 42, Sec. 8, 45 Stat. 1062.)
