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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 620. Upper Colorado River Basin; purpose of development of water resources; initial units; construction of Wayne N. Aspinall unit contingent upon certification; participating projects; Rainbow Bridge National Monument
In order to initiate the comprehensive development of the water
resources of the Upper Colorado River Basin, for the purposes,
among others, of regulating the flow of the Colorado River, storing
water for beneficial consumptive use, making it possible for the
States of the Upper Basin to utilize, consistently with the
provisions of the Colorado River Compact, the apportionments made
to and among them in the Colorado River Compact and the Upper
Colorado River Basin Compact, respectively, providing for the
reclamation of arid and semiarid land, for the control of floods,
and for the generation of hydroelectric power, as an incident of
the foregoing purposes, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized
(1) to construct, operate, and maintain the following initial units
of the Colorado River storage project, consisting of dams,
reservoirs, powerplants, transmission facilities and appurtenant
works: Wayne N. Aspinall, Flaming Gorge, Navajo (dam and reservoir
only), and Glen Canyon: Provided, That the Wayne N. Aspinall Dam
shall be constructed to a height which will impound not less than
nine hundred and forty thousand acre-feet of water or will create a
reservoir of such greater capacity as can be obtained by a high
waterline located at seven thousand five hundred and twenty feet
above mean sea level, and that construction thereof shall not be
undertaken until the Secretary has, on the basis of further
engineering and economic investigations, reexamined the economic
justification of such unit and, accompanied by appropriate
documentation in the form of a supplemental report, has certified
to the Congress and to the President that, in his judgment, the
benefits of such unit will exceed its costs; and (2) to construct,
operate, and maintain the following additional reclamation projects
(including power-generating and transmission facilities related
thereto), hereinafter referred to as participating projects:
Central Utah (initial phase and the Uintah unit), San Juan-Chama
(initial stage), Emery County, Florida, Hammond, La Barge, Lyman,
Navajo Indian, Paonia (including the Minnesota unit, a dam and
reservoir on Muddy Creek just above its confluence with the North
Fork of the Gunnison River, and other necessary works), Animas-La
Plata, Dolores, Dallas Creek, West Divide, San Miguel, Seedskadee,
Savery-Pot Hook, Bostwick Park, Fruitland Mesa, Silt and Smith
Fork: Provided further, That as part of the Glen Canyon Unit the
Secretary of the Interior shall take adequate protective measures
to preclude impairment of the Rainbow Bridge National Monument.
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