617.
Colorado River Basin; protection and development; dam, reservoir, and incidental works; water, water power, and electrical energy; eminent domain.
617a.
"Colorado River Dam Fund".
(a)
Creation of fund; purpose; receipts and expenditures under control of Secretary of the Interior.
(b)
Advancements to fund by Secretary of the Treasury; allocation; repayment; interest.
(c)
Limitation on use made of advancements.
(d)
Unpaid interest on advancements; charge on fund; rate of interest.
(e)
Money in fund in excess of amount needed; certification of fact; disposition.
617b.
Authorization of appropriations.
617c.
Condition precedent to taking effect of provisions.
(a)
Ratification by interested States of Colorado River compact; agreements for apportionment of waters.
(b)
Agreements for revenues to meet expenses of construction, operation, and maintenance of works.
617d.
Contracts for storage and use of waters for irrigation and domestic purposes; generation and sale of electrical energy.
(a)
Duration of contracts for electrical energy; price of water and electrical energy to yield reasonable returns; readjustments of prices.
(b)
Renewal of contracts for electrical energy.
(c)
Applicants for purchase of water and electrical energy; preferences.
(d)
Transmission lines for electrical energy; use; rights of way over public and reserved lands.
617e.
Uses to be made of dam and reservoir; title in whom; leases, regulations; limitation on authority.
617f.
Canals and appurtenant structures; transfer of title; power development.
617g.
Colorado River compact as controlling authority in construction and maintenance of dam, reservoir, canals, and other works.
617h.
Lands capable of irrigation and reclamation by irrigation works; public entry; preferences.
617i.
Modification of existing compact relating to Laguna Dam.
617l.
Colorado River compact approval.
(a)
Approval by Congress.
(b)
Rights in waters of Colorado River and tributaries; Colorado River compact as controlling.
(c)
Patents, grants, contracts, concessions, etc.; Colorado River compact as controlling.
(d)
Conditions and covenants referred to herein; nature; how and by whom availed of in litigation.
617m.
Reclamation law applicable.
617n.
Projects for irrigation, generation of electric power, and other purposes; investigations and reports.
617o.
Officials of ratifying States; authority to act in advisory capacity; access to records.
617p.
Claims of United States; priority.
617q.
Effect on authority of States to control waters within own borders.
617r.
Consent given States to negotiate supplemental compacts for development of Colorado River.
617s.
Recognition of rights of Mexico to Colorado River waters.
617u.
Lease of reserved lands in Boulder City, Nevada; disposition of revenues.
618.
Promulgation of charges for electrical energy.
618a.
Receipts from project; disposition.
(a)
Defraying operating costs.
(b)
Repayment of cost of construction.
(c)
Commutation payments to Arizona and Nevada.
(d)
Transfer of sums to Colorado River Development Fund; expenditure of fund.
(e)
Transfer to Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund.
618a–1.
Availability of Colorado River Development Fund for investigation and construction purposes.
618b.
Reduction of payments and transfers where revenue is insufficient.
618c.
Charges as retroactive; adjustment of accounts.
618d.
Readvances from Treasury where Dam Fund is insufficient to meet cost of replacements.
618e.
Interest payments; rate.
618f.
Repayment of advances for flood control.
618g.
Regulations; contracts; modification of allotments of energy.
618h.
Termination of existing lease of Hoover Power Plant; lessees as agents of United States; termination of agency.
618j.
Effect of refusal to modify existing contracts.
618m.
Effect on existing laws and States' rights.
618n.
Wages of employees.
619.
Increase in capacity of existing generating equipment at Hoover Powerplant; construction of Colorado River bridge crossing.
(a)
Hoover Powerplant generating equipment; increase in capacity; improvement of appurtenances; authorization of Secretary.
(b)
Construction of Colorado River bridge crossing; authorization of Secretary.
619a.
Renewal contracts for power.
(a)
Offering of contracts by Secretary; total power obligation; conforming of regulations; contract expiration and restrictions.
(b)
Prejudice of rights of contract holders under Boulder Canyon Project Act.
(c)
Execution of contract with parties to certain litigation; offer of contract to other entities.
(d)
Funding of uprating program.
(e)
Deposit of uprating program funds in Colorado River Dam Fund.
(f)
Amounts advanced by non-Federal purchasers; financial integration as capital costs.
(g)
Congressional exercise of reserved right.
(h)
Court challenges; disputes and disagreements.
(i)
Congressional declaration of purpose.
619b.
Reimbursement of funds advanced by non-Federal purchasers; uprating program; repayment requirement; visitor facilities program.
"For the purposes of effecting economies and increased efficiency in the construction, operation, and maintenance thereof and of accounting for the return of reimbursable costs, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to consolidate and administer as a single project to be known as the Parker-Davis project, Arizona-California-Nevada, the projects known as the Parker Dam power project, Arizona-California, and the Davis Dam project, Arizona-Nevada: Provided, That nothing in this Act shall be construed to alter or affect in any way the Boulder Canyon Project Act (45 Stat. 1057) [subchapter I of this chapter], the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act (54 Stat. 774) [subchapter II of this chapter], or the treaty between the United States of America and the United Mexican States, signed at Washington on February 3, 1944, relating to the utilization of the waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande from Fort Quitman, Texas, to the Gulf of Mexico: Provided further, That nothing in this Act shall be construed to alter or affect in any way any right or obligation of the United States or any other party under contracts heretofore entered into by the United States.