Joint resolution to provide for construction by the Secretary of the Interior of the Glendo unit, Wyoming, Missouri River Basin project
PL 83-503 (S.J.Res.165), enacted 07/16/1954

486 
PUBLIC LAW 503-JULY 16, 1954 
[68 STAT. 
Public Law 503 
C HAPTER 532 
, , 
,«,„-. 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
July 16,1954 
[S.J.Res. 165] To provide for construction by the Secretary of ttie Interior of the Glendo unit, 
Wyoming, Missouri River Basin project. 
Whereas construction by the Secretary of the Interior of a dam and 
reservoir at the Glendo site on the North Platte River in Wyoming 
was authorized by section 9, subsection (c) of the Act of December 
58 Stat. 891. 
22,1944 (58 Stat. 641,653) ; and 
Whereas the Interior Department Appropriation Acts for 1954 and 
several previous years have provided that "in order to promote 
agreement among the States of Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado, 
and to avoid any possible alteration of existing vested water rights, 
no part of this or of any prior appropriation shall be used for con-
struction or for further commitment for construction of the Glendo 
unit or any feature thereof, until a definite plan report thereon has 
been completed, reviewed by the States of Nebraska, Wyoming, and 
Colorado, and approved by Congress"; and 
Whereas a definite plan report was completed by the Bureau of Rec-
lamation in December 1952, reviewed by the States aforesaid, and 
approved by Wyoming on March 5,1953, by Colorado on March 31, 
1953, and by Nebraska on May 19,1953; thus substantially complying 
33 use 7oi-*i 
^^^^^ ^^^ provision of section 1 of the Flood Control Act of 1944; 
and 
Whereas the said definite plan report was approved by the Secretary 
of the Interior on February 19, 1954, and transmitted to the 
Congress by him on April 2,1954; and 
Whereas the Secretary of the Interior has found the Glendo unit to be 
economically and financially feasible and has recommended its early 
construction; and 
Whereas, as appears in the stipulation signed on behalf of the States 
of Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado and of the United States on 
January 14,1953, the prospect of construction of the Glendo unit as 
now proposed played an important part in the negotiations of said 
parties looking toward an amicable modification of the decree of the 
United States Supreme Court entered in the case of Nebraska versus 
Wyoming (325 U. S. 665); and 
Whereas the United States Supreme Court has approved said stipula-
tion and modified its decree in accordance therewith (345 U. S. 981) : 
Now, therefore, be it 
Giendounit.wyo, 
ResoVved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the definite plan report 
on the Glendo unit, Missouri River Basin project, approved by the 
Secretary of the Interior on February 19,1954, is hereby approved by 
the Congress, and the Secretary is authorized to construct and operate 
said unit in accordance with said report and with the modified decree 
of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Nebraska versus 
Wyoming (345 U. S. 981) and, through its physical and financial 
coordination and integration with the other Federal works constructed 
or authorized to be constructed under the comprehensive plans 
approved by section 9 of the Act of December 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 641, 
58 Stat. 891. 
653), as amended and supplemented, with the financial objective of 
returning its reimbursable costs during a fifty-year payment period. 
SEC. 2. With respect to the Glendo unit, the provisions of section 1 
33 use 701-1. 
(c) of the Flood Control Act of 1944 are hereby waived. 
Approved July 16, 1954. 
C o n g r e s s ional 
approv