An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain, the southern Nevada water project, Nevada, and for other purposes
PL 89-292 (S.32), enacted 10/22/1965

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October 22, 1965 
[S. 32] 
Southern 
Nevada water 
project. 
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note. 
Project costs, 
allocations. 
16 u s e 460^-12 
note. 
Repayment; in-
terest rate. 
43 u s e 390b 
note. 
Contract. 
eonstruction, 
commencement. 
53 Stat. 1194. 
43 u s e 4B5h, 
Transfer of 
operation, etc. 
PUBLIC LAW 89-292-OCT. 22, 1965 
[79 STAT. 
Public Law 89-292 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain 
the southern Nevada water project, Nevada, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary 
of the Interior is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain the 
southern Nevada w'ater project, Nevada, in accordance with the Fed-
eral reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902; 32 Stat. 388, and Acts 
amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto), except as those laws 
are inconsistent with this Act, for the principal purpose of delivering 
water for municipal and industrial use. The principal features of the 
southern Nevada water project shall consist of intake facilities, pump-
ing plants, aqueduct and laterals, transmission lines, substations, and 
storage and regulatory facilities required to provide water from Lake 
Mead on the Colorado Eiver for distribution to municipalities and 
industrial centers within Clark County, Nevada. 
SEC. 2. (a) The Secretary shall make appropriate allocations of proj-
ect costs to municipal and industrial water supply and, if appropriate, 
to fish and wildlife and recreation: Provided^ lliat all operation and 
maintenance costs for the southern Nevada water project shall be 
allocated to municipal and industrial water supply. Construction costs 
of the Eiver Mountains dam and reservoir allocated to fish and wild-
life and recreation shall be nonreimbursable in accordance with the 
Federal Water Project Recreation Act (79 Stat. 213). 
(b) Allocations of project costs made to municipal and industrial 
water supply shall be repayable to the L^nited States in not more than 
fifty years under either the provisions of the Federal reclamation laws 
or under the provisions of Water Supply Act of 1958 (title I I I of 
Public Law 85-500, 72 Stat. 319 and Acts amendatory thereof or sup-
plementary thereto) : Provided^ That, in either case, repayment of 
costs allocated to municipal and industrial water supply shall include 
interest on the unamortized balance of such allocations at a rate equal 
to the average rate (which rate shall be certified by the Secretary of 
the Treasury) paid by the United States on its marketable long-term 
securities outstanding on the date of this Act and adjusted to the 
nearest one-eighth of 1 per centum. 
SEO. 3. (a) The Secretary is authorized to enter into a contract with 
the State of Nevada, acting through the Colorado River Commission 
of Nevada or other duly authorized State agency, for the delivery of 
water and for repayment of the reimbursable construction costs. 
(b) Construction of the project shall not be commenced until a suit-
able contract has been executed by the Secretary and the Colorado 
River Commission or other duly authorized State agency. 
(c) Such contract may be entered into without regard to the last 
sentence of section 9, subsection (c), of the Reclamation Project Act 
of 1939. 
(d) Upon execution of the contract referred to in section 3(a) 
above, and upon completion of construction of the project, the Secre-
tary shall transfer to said Colorado River Commission of Nevada or 
other duly authorized State agency the care, operation, and mainte-
nance of the intake, pumping plants, aqueducts, reservoirs, and related 
features of the southern Nevada water project upon the terms and 
conditions set out in the said contract. 
(e) When all of the costs allocable to reimbursable purposes 
incurred by the United States on constructing, operating, and main-
taining the project, together with appropriate interest charges, have 
been returned to the United States by the State of Nevada, said State 
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shall have the perniaiieiit I'i^ht to use the intake, pumping plants, 
aqueducts, reser\oirs, and related features of the southern Nevada 
water supply project in accordance with said contract. 
SEC. 4. huch amount of the costs of construction as are allocated to ^^Nonreimbursable 
the furnishing of a water supply to Xellis Aii- Force Base or other 
defense installations shall l)e nonreimbursable. 
SEC. 5. The use of all water diverted for tliis projet^'t from the ^ ^"im'^^watfr''^'^ 
Colorado RiA'er system sliall be subject to and controlled by the Colo- diversion. 
rado Eiver compact, the Boulder Canyon Project Act (45 Stat. 1057; 
43 U.S.C. 6l7t). and the Mexican Water Treatv (Treaty Series 994) 
(59 Stat. 1219).' 
SEC. 6. In all water sup])ly contracts for the use of water in Nevada inJ^ggtat"^'^*^' 
luider this Act or section 5 of the Boulder Canyon Project Act (45 priorUieT. 
Stat. 1057) the Secretary shall recognize the intrastate priorities of 
water rights to the use of water existing on the date of enactment 
of this Act: Pfor/de<L howerei'. That nothing in this Act shall be con-
strued as validating any right diminished or h)st because of abandon-
ment, nonuse, or lack of (hie diligence. Jior sliall anything in this Act l)e 
construed as affecting the satisfaction of i)i'esent i)erfe<2ted rights as 
defined by the decree of the T'nited States Sui)reme Court in Arizona 
against California etal. (876 C S . 840). 
SEC. 7. There is hereby authorized to be apj)i'<)priated for construe- Appropriation. 
tion of the southern Nevada water project, Nevada, the sum of 
$81,003,000 (September 1965 j^rices) plus or minus such amounts, if 
any, as may be justitied by reason of ordiiiaiy fhictuations in construc-
tion costs as indicated by engineering cost indexes ap])licable to the 
types of construction involved herein. 
Approved October 22, 1965. 
Public Law 89-293 
A N A C T 
October 22, 1965 
To provide for the" establishment of the Roger Williams National Memorial in —.—:—— 
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the city of Providence, Rhode Island, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That the Secretary 
Roger wiiiiams 
of the Interior may acquire by gift, purchase with appropriated or Hai)°R^i.'^^"'° 
donated funds, transfer from any Federal agency, exchange, or other- 
Establishment. 
wise, not to exceed five acres of land (together with any buildings or 
other improvements thereon) and interests in land at the site of the 
old town spring, traditionally called Roger Williams Spring, in Provi-
dence, Rhode Island, for the purpose of establishing thereon a national 
memorial to Roger Williams in commemoration of his outstanding 
contributions to the development of the principles of freedom in this 
country: Provided^ That property owned by the city of Providence 
or the Providence Redevelopment Agency may be acquired only with 
the consent of such owner. 
SEC. 2. The property acquired pursuant to the first section of this 
Publication in 
Act shall be established as the Roger Williams National Memorial ^^^^'^' Register. 
and the Secretary of the Interior shall publish notice of such estab-
lishment in the Federal Register. 
Such national Memorial shall be 
administered by the Secretary subject to the provisions of the Act 
entitled "An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other 
purposes," approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535), as amended and 
^^ "^c 1-4. 
supplemented, and the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the preser-
vation of historic American sites, buildings, objects, and antiquities 
of national significance, and for other purposes," approved August 21, 
1935 (49 Stat. 666). 
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467.