An Act to amend the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 with respect to certain provisions applicable to condemnation proceedings
PL 90-536 (S.1637), enacted 09/28/1968

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Public Law 90-535 
AN ACT 
September28, 196S 
To include in tlie prohibitions contained in section 2314 of title 18, United States 
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Code, the transxwrtation with unlawful intent in interstate or foreign wmmerce 
of traveler's checks bearing forged countersignatures. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Rej>reserdatwe8 of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 2314 of 
title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the third 
paragraph thereof a new paragraph as follows: 
"Whoever, with unlawful or fraudulent intent, transports in inter-
state or foreign commerce any traveler's check bearing a forged coun-
tersignature; or". 
Approved September 28, 1968. 
Crimes. 
Forged trav-
eler's checks, 
transportation. 
62 Stat. 806. 
Public Law 90-536 
AN ACT 
September28, 196S 
To amen(? the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 with respect to certain 
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provisions applicable to condemnation proceedings. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the last six 
paragraphs of section 25 of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 
1933 (48 Stat. TO), as amended (16 U.S.C. 831x), are hereby repealed. 
SEC. 2. The amendment made by this Act shall be effective only with 
respect to condemnation proceedings initiated after thirty days follow-
ing the date of enactment of this Act. 
Approved September 28, 1968. 
TVA property 
condemnation 
proceedings. 
Effective 
date. 
Public Law 90-537 
AN A C T 
SeptemberSO, 1968 
To authorize the construction, operation, and maintenance of the Colorado 
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River Basin project, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in C'ongress assemhled, 
TITLE I—COLORADO RIVER BASIN PROJECT: 
OBJECTIVES 
SEC. 101. That this Act may be cited as the "Colorado River Basin 
Project Act". 
Colorado River 
Basin Project 
Act. 
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SEC. 102. (a) It is the object of this Act to provide a program for 
the further comprehensive development of the water resources of the 
Colorado River Basin and for the provision of additional and adequate 
water supplies for use in the upper as well as in the lower Colorado 
River Basin. This program is declared to be for the purposes, among 
others, of regulating the flow of the Colorado River; controlling 
floods; improving navigation; providing for the storage and delivery 
of the waters of the Colorado River for reclamation of lands, including 
supplemental water supplies, arid for municipal, industrial, and other 
beneficial purposes; improving water quality; providing for basic pub-
lic outdoor recreation facilities; improving conditions for fish and 
wildlife, and the generation and sale of electrical power as an incident 
of the foregoing purposes. 
(b) It is the policy of the Congress that the Secretary of the Interior 
(hereinafter referred to as the "Secretary") shall continue to develop, 
after consultation with affected States and appropriate Federal 
agencies, a regional water plan, consistent with the provisions of this 
Act and with future authorizations, to serve as the framework under 
which projects in the Colorado River Basin may be coordinated and 
constructed with proper timing to the end that an adequate supply of 
water may be made available for such projects, whether heretofore, 
herein, or hereafter authorized. 
TITLE II—INVESTIGATIONS AND PLANNING 
SEC. 201. Pursuant to the authority set out in the Reclamation Act 
of June 17,1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supple-
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mentary thereto, and the provisions of the Water Resources Planning 
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^4^ct of July 22, 1965, 79 Stat. 244, as amended, with respect to the 
coordination of studies, investigations and assessments, the Secretary 
of the Interior shall conduct full and complete reconnaissance investi-
gations for the purpose of developing a general plan to meet the 
future water needs of the Western United States. Such investigations 
shall include the long-range water supply available and the long-range 
water requirements in each water resource region of the Western 
Reports. 
United States. Progress reports in connection with these investiga-
tions shall be submitted to the President, the National Water Commis-
sion (wliile it is in existence), the Water Resources Council, and to 
the Congress every two years. The first of such reports shall be sub-
mitted on or before June 30, 1971, and a final reconnaissance report 
shall be submitted not later than June 30, 1977: Provided^ That for a 
period of ten years from the date of this Act, the Secretary shall not 
undertake reconnaissance studies of any plan for the importation of 
water into the Colorado River Basin from any other natural river 
drainage basin lying outside the States of Arizona, California, Colo-
rado, New Mexico, and those portions of Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming 
which are in the natural drainage basin of the Colorado River. 
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SEC. 202. The Congress declares that the satisfaction of the require-
ments of the Mexican Water Treaty from the Colorado River consti-
tutes a national obligation which shall be the first obligation of any 
water augmentation project planned pursuant to section 201 of this 
Act and authorized by the Congress. Accordingly, the States of the 
Upper Division (Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming) and 
the States of the T»wer Division (Arizona, California, and Nevada) 
shall be relieved from all obligations which may have been imposed 
upon them by article III(c) of the Colorado River Compact so long 
as the Secretary shall determine and proclaim that means are avail-
able and in operation which augment the water supply of the Colorado 
River system in such quantity as to satisfy the requirements of the 
Mexican Water Treaty together with any losses of water associated 
with the j)erformance of that treaty: Provided^ That the satisfaction 
of the requirements of the Mexican Water Treaty (Treaty Series 994, 
59 Stat. 1219), shall be from the waters of the Colorado River pursu-
ant to the treaties, laws, and compacts presently relating thereto, until 
such time as a feasibility plan showing the most economical means of 
augmenting the water supply available in the Colorado River below 
Lee Ferry by two and one-half million acre-feet shall be authorized by 
the (^ongress and is in operation as provided in this Act. 
SEC. 203. (a) In the event that the Secretary shall, pursuant to sec-
tion 201, plan works to import water into the Colorado River system 
from sources outside the natural drainage areas of the system, he shall 
make j)rovision for adequate and equitable protection of the interests 
of the States and areas of origin, including assistance from funds speci-
fied in this xVct, to the end that water supplies may be available for use 
in such States and areas of origin adequate to satisfy their ultimate re-
quirements at prices to users not adversely affected by the exportation 
of water to the Colorado River system. 
(b) All requirements, present or future, for water within any State 
lying wholly or in part within the drainage area of any river basin 
from which water is exported by works planned pursuant to this Act 
shall have a priority of right in perpetuity to the use of the waters 
of that river basin, for all purposes, as against the uses of the water 
delivered by means of such exportation works, unless otherwise pro-
vided by interstate agreement. 
SEC. 204. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums 
as are required to cany out the purposes of this title. 
TITLE III—AUTHORIZED UNITS: PROTECTION OF 
EXISTING USES 
SEC. 301. (a) For the purposes of furnishing irrigation water and 
municipal water supplies to the water-deficient areas of Arizona and 
western New Mexico through direct diversion or exchange of water, 
control of floods, conservation and development of fish and wildlife 
resources, enhancement of recreation opportunities, and for other pur-
poses, the Secretary shall construct, operate, and mainta"n the Central 
Arizona Project, consisting of the following principal works: (1) a 
system of main conduits and canals, including a main canal and pump-
ing plants (Granite Reef aqueduct and pumping plants), for diverting 
and carrying water from Lake Ilavasu to Orme Dam or suitable alter-
native, which system may have a caj^acity of 3,000 cubic feet per second 
or whatever lesser capacity is found to be feasible : Provided^ That any 
capacity in the Granite Reef aqueduct in excess of 2,500 cubic feet per 
second shall be utilized for the conveyance of Colorado River water 
only w^hen Lake PoAvell is full or releases of Avater are made from Lake 
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Powell to prevent the reservoir from exceeding elevation 8,700 feet 
above mean sea level or when releases are made pursuant to the proviso 
in section 602(a) (3) of this Act: Provided further^ That the costs of 
providing any capacity in excess of 2,600 cubic feet per second shall be 
repaid by those funds available to Arizona pursuant to the provision of 
subsection 403(f) of this Act, or by funds from sources other than the 
development fund; (2) Orme Dam and Reservoir and power-pumping 
plant or suitable alternative; (3) Buttes Dam and Reservoir, which 
shall be so operated as not to prejudice the rights of any user in and to 
the waters of the Gila River as those rights are set foith in the decree 
entered by the United States District Court for the District of Arizona 
on June 29, 1935, in United States against Gila Valley Irrigation Dis-
trict and others (Globe Equity Numbered 59) ; (4) Hooker Dam and 
Reservoir or suitable alternative, which shall be constructed in such a 
manner as to give effect to the provisions of subsection (f) of section 
304; (5) Charleston Dam and Reservoir; (6) Tucson aqueducts and 
pumping plants; (7) Salt-Gila aqueducts; (8) related canals, regulat-
ing facilities, hydroelectric powerplants, and electrical transmission 
facilities required for the operation of said principal works; (9) related 
water distribution and draiinage works; and (10) appurtenant works. 
(b) Article 11(B) (3) of the decree of the Supreme Court of the 
United States in Arizona against California (376 U.S. 340) shall be 
so administered that in any year in which, as determined by the Secre-
tary, there is insufficient main stream Colorado River water available 
for release to satisfy annual consumptive use of seven million five 
hundred thousand acre-feet in Arizona, California, and Nevada, 
diversions from the main stream for the Central Arizona Project shall 
be so limited as to assure the availability of water in quantities suffi-
cient to provide for the aggregate annual consumptive use by holders 
of present perfected rights, by other users in the State of California 
served under existing contracts wnth the United States by diversion 
works heretofore constructed, and by other existing Federal reserva-
tions in that State, of four million four hundred thousand acre-feet 
of mainstream water, and by users of the same character in Arizona 
and Nevada. Water users in the State of Nevada shall not be required 
to bear shortages in any proportion greater than would have been 
imposed in the absence of this subsection 301 (b). This subsection shall 
not affect the relative priorities, among themselves, o| water users in 
Arizona, Nevada, and California which are senior to diversions for the 
Central Arizona Project, or amend any provisions of said decree. 
(c) The limitation stated in subsection (b) of this section shall not 
apply so long as the Secretary shall determine and proclaim that means 
are available and in operation which augment the water supply of the 
Colorado River system in such quantity as to make sufficient main-
stream water available for release to satisfy annual consumptive use 
of seven million five hundred thousand acre-feet in Arizona, Cali-
fornia, and Nevada. 
SEC. 302. (a) The Secretary shall designate the lands of the Salt 
River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, Arizona, and the Fort 
McDowell-Apache Indian Community, Arizona, or interests therein, 
and any allotted lands or interests therein within said communities 
which he determines are necessary for use and occupancy by the United 
States for the construction, operation, and maintenance of Orme Dam 
and Reservoir, or alternative. The Secretary shall offer to pay the fair 
market value of the lands and interests designated, inclusive of im-
provements. In addition, the Secretary shall offer to pay toward the 
cost of relocating or replacing such improvements not to exceed $500,-
000 in the aggregate, and the amount offered for the actual relocation 
or replacement of a residence shall not exceed the difference between 
the fair market value of the residence and $8,000. Each community and 
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each atfected allottee shall have six months in Avhich to accept or reject 
the Secretary's offer. If the Secretary's offer is rejected, the United 
States may proceed to acquire the property interests involved through 
eminent domain proceedings in the United States District Court for 
the District of Arizona under 40 U.S.C., sections 257 and 258a. Upon 
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acceptance in writing of the Secretary's offer, or upon the filing of a 
declaration of taking in eminent domain proceedings, title to the lands 
or interests involved, and the right to possession thereof, shall vest in 
the United States. LTpon a determination by the Secretary that all or 
any part of such lands or interests are no longer necessary for the pur-
pose for which acquired, title to such lands or interests shall be 
restored to the appropriate community upon repayment to the Federal 
Government of the amounts paid by it for such lands. 
(b) Title to any land or easement acquired pursuant to this section 
shall be subject to the right of the former owner to use or lease the land 
for purposes not inconsistent with the construction, operation, and 
maintenance of the project, as determined by, and under terms and 
conditions prescribed by, the Secretary. Such right shall include the 
right to extract and dispose of minerals. The determination of fair 
market value under subsection (a) shall reflect the right to extract and 
dispose of minerals and all other uses permitted by this section. 
(c) In view of the fact that a substantial portion of the lands of the 
Fort McDowell Mohave-Apache Indian Community will be required 
for Orme Dam and Reservoir, or alternative, the Secretary shall, in 
addition to the compensation provided for in subsection (a) of this 
section, designate and add to the Fort McDowell Indian Reservation 
twenty-five hundred acres of suitable lands in the vicinity of the reser-
vation that are under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior 
in township 4 north, range 7 east; township 5 north, range 7 east; and 
township 8 north, range 7 east, Gila and Salt River base meridian, 
Arizona. Title to lands so added to the reservation shall be held by the 
United States in trust for the Fort McDowell Mohave-Apache Indian 
Community. 
(d) Each community shall have a right, in accordance with plans 
approved by the Secretary, to develop and operate recreational facili-
ties along the part of the shoreline of the Orme Reservoir located on 
or adjacent to its reservation, including land added to the Fort 
McDowell Reservation as provided in subsection (b) of this section, 
subject to rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary governing 
the recreation development of the reservoir. Recreation development 
of the entire reservoir and federally owned lands under the jurisdic-
tion of the Secretary adjacent thereto shall be in accordance with a 
master recreation plan approved by the Secretary. The members of 
each community shall have nonexclusive personal rights to hunt and 
fish on or in the reservoir without charge to the same extent they are 
now authorized to hunt and fish, but no community shall have the 
right to exclude others from the reservoir except by control of access 
through its reservation or any right to require payment by members 
of the public except for the use oi community lands or facilities. 
(e) All funds paid pursuant to this section, and any per capita 
distribution thereof, shall be exempt from all forms of State and 
Federal income taxes. 
SEC. 303. (a) The Secretary is authorized and directed to continue 
to a conclusion appropriate engineering and economic studies and to 
recommend the most feasible plan for the construction and operation 
of hydroelectric generating and transmission facilities, the purchase 
of electrical energy, the purchase of entitlement to electrical plant 
capacity, or any combination thereof, including participation, opera-
tion, or construction by non-Federal entities, for the purpose of supply-
ing the power requirements of the Central Arizona Project and 
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augmenting the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fmid: 
Provided^ That nothing in this section or in this Act contained shall be 
construed to authorize the study or construction of any dams on the 
main stream of the Colorado River between Hoover Dam and Glen 
Canyon Dam. 
(b) If included as a part of the recommended plan, the Secretary 
may enter into agreements with non-Federal interests proposing to 
construct thermal generating powerplants whereby the United States 
shall acquire the right to such portions of their capacity, including 
delivery of power and energy over appurtenant transmission facilities 
to mutually agreed upon delivery points, as he determines is required in 
connection with the operation of the Central Arizona Project. When 
not required for the Central Arizona Project, the power and energy 
acquired by such agreements may be disposed of intermittently by the 
Secretary for other purposes at such prices as he may determine, in-
cluding its marketing in conjunction with the sale of power and energy 
from Federal powerplants in the Colorado River system so as to pro-
duce the greatest practicable amount of power and energy that can 
be sold at firm power and energy rates. The agreements shall provide, 
among other things, that— 
(1) the United States shall pay not more than that portion of 
the total construction cost, exclusive of interest during construc-
tion, of the powerplants, and of any switchyards and transmission 
facilities serving the United States, as is represented by the ratios 
of the resf)ective capacities to be pix)vided for the United States 
therein to the total capacities of such facilities. The Secretary 
shall make the Feileral portion of such costs available to the non-
Federal interests during the consitruction period, including the 
})eriod of preparation of designs and specifications, in such in-
stallments as will facilitate a timely construction schedule, but 
no funds other than for preconstruction activities shall be made 
available by the Secretary until he determines that adequate con-
ti'actual arrangements liave been entered into betwe^en all the 
aifected parties covering land, waiter, fuel supplies, power (its 
availablity and use), rights-of-way, transmission facilities and 
all other necessary matters for the thermal generating power-
plants ; 
Operation and 
(2) aiuiual Operation and maintenance costs shall be appor-
maintenance 
tioued betweeu the United States and the non-Federal interests 
costs. 
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on an equitable basis taking into account the ratios determined m 
accordance with the foregoing clause (1) : Provided^ liowever^ 
That the Ignited States shall share on the foregoing basis in the 
depreciation component of such costs only to the extent of pro-
vision for depreciation on replacements financed by the non-
Federal interests; 
(3) the United States shall be given appropriate credit for 
any interests in P'ederal lands administered by the Department 
of the Interior that are made available for the powerplants and 
appurtenances; 
(4) costs to be borne by the United States under clauses (1) 
and (2) shall not include (a) inteirest and interest during con-
struction, (b) financing charges, (c) franchise fees, and (d) 
such other costs as shall be s|>ecified in the agreement. 
Recommendations 
(Q) NO later than oiic year from the effective date of this Act, the 
ongress. 
Secretary shall submit his recommended plan to the Congress. Except 
as authorized by subsection (b) of this section, such plan shall not 
become effective until approved by the Congress, 
apportionment o
f 
^^^ ^^ ^^Y t^^^mal generating plant referred to in subsection (b) of 
diverted water. 
tliis sectiou is located in Arizona, and if it is served by water diverted 
from the drainage area of the Colorado River system above Lee Ferry, 
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other provisions of existing law to the contrary notwithstanding, such 
consumptive use of water shall be a part of the hfty thousand acre-
feet per annum apportioned to the State of Arizona by article I I I (a) 
of the Upper (.olorado River Basin Compact (60 Stat, 31). 
SEC. 304. (a) Unless and until otherwise provided by Congress, 
irrigation re-
water from the Central Arizona Project shall not be made available ^*''^'=''°"-
directly or indirectly for the irrigation of lands not having a recent 
irrigation history as determined by the Secretary, except in the case of 
Indian lands, national wildlife refuges, and, with the approval of the 
Secretary, State-administered wildlife management areas. 
(b) (1) Irrigation and municipal and industrial water supply mider 
water supply, 
the Central Arizona Project within the State of Arizona may, in the triirtT^" 
event the Secretary determines that it is necessary to effect repayment, 
be pursuant to master contracts -with organizations which have powder 
to levy assessments against all taxable real property within their 
boundaries. The terms and conditions of contracts or other arrange-
ments whereby each such organization makes water from the Central 
Arizona Project available to users within its boundaries shall be sub-
ject to the Secretary's approval, and the United States shall, if the 
Secretary determines such action is desirable to facilitate carrying out 
the provisions of this Act, have the right to require that it be a party 
to such contracts or that contracts subsidiary to the master contracts 
be entered into between the United States and any user. The provisions 
of this clause (1) shall not apply to the supplying of water to an 
Indian tribe for use within the boundaries of an Indian reservation. 
(2) Any obligation assumed pursuant to section 9(d) of the Recla-
mation Project Act of 1939 (43 U.S.C. 485h(d)) with respect to any 
53 stat. 1195. 
project contract unit or irrigation block shall be repaid over a basic 
period of not more than fifty years; any water service provided pur-
suant to section 9(e) of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (43 U.S.C. 
485h(e)) may be on the basis of delivery of water for a period of fifty 
years and for the delivery of such water at an identical price per acre-
foot for water of the same class at the several points of delivery from 
the main canals and conduits and from such other points of delivery 
as the Secretary may designate; and long-term contracts relating to 
irrigation water supply shall provide that water made available there-
under may be made available by the Secretary for municipal or indus-
trial purposes if and to the extent that such water is not required by the 
contractor for irrigation purposes. 
(3) Contracts relating to municipal and industrial water supply 
under the Central ^Arizona Project may be made without regard to the 
limitations of the last sentence of section 9(c) of the Reclamation 
Project Act of 1939 (43 U.S.C. 485h(c)); may provide for the delivery 
of such water at an identical price per acre-foot for water of the same 
class at the several points of delivery from the main canals and con-
duits ; and may provide for repayment over a period of fifty years if 
made pursuant to clause (1) of said section and for the delivery of 
Waaler over a period of fifty years if made pursuant to clause (2) 
thereof. 
(c) Each contract under which water is provided under the Central 
water con-
Arizona Project shall require that (1) there be in effect measures, ade-
quale in the judgment of the Secretary, to control expansion of irriga-
tion from aquifers affected by irrigation in the contract service area; 
(2) the canals and distribution systems through which water is con-
veyed after its delivery by the United States to the contractors shall 
be provided and maintained with linings adequate in his judgment to 
prevent excessive conveyance losses; and (3) neither the contractor nor 
the Secretary shall pump or permit others to pump ground water 
from within the exterior boundaries of the service area of a contractor 
re^ceiving water from the Central Arizona Project for any use outside 
servation. 
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Water exchanges 
Water shortage 
priorities. 
New Mexico 
users, water 
exchange 
contracts. 
said contractor's service area unless the Secretary and such contractor 
shall agree, or shall have previously agreed, that a surplus of ground 
water exists and that drainage is or was required. Such contracts shall 
be subordinate at all times to the satisfaction of all existing contracts 
between the Secretary and users in Arizona heretofore made pursuant 
to the Boulder Canyon Project Act (45 Stat. 1057). 
(d) The Secretary may require in any contract under which water 
is provided from the Central Arizona Project that the contractor agree 
to accept main stream water in exchange for or in replacement of exist-
ing supplies from sources other than the main stream. The Secretary 
shall so require in the case of users in Arizona who also use water from 
the Gila River system to the extent necessary to make available to 
users of water from the Gila River system in New Mexico additional 
quantities of water as provided in and under the conditions specified 
in subsection (f) of this section: Provided, That such exchanges and 
replacements shall be accomplished without economic injury or cost 
to such Arizona contractors. 
(e) In times of shortage or reduction of main stream Colorado River 
water for the Central Arizona Project, as determined by the Secretary, 
users which have yielded water from other sources in exchange for 
main stream water supplied by that project shall have a first priority 
to receive main stream water, as against other users supplied by that 
project which have not so yielded water from other sources, but only 
m quantities adequate to replace the water so yielded. 
(f) (1) In the operation of the Central Arizona Project, the Secre-
tary shall offer to contract with water users in New Mexico for water 
from the Gila River, its tributaries and underground water sources in 
amounts that will permit consumptive use of water in New Mexico of 
not to exceed an annual average in any period of ten consecutive years 
of eighteen thousand acre-feet, including reservoir evaporation, over 
and above the consumptive uses provided for by article IV of the decree 
of the Supreme Court of the United States in Arizona against Cali-
fornia (376 U.S. 340). Such increased consumptive uses shall not begin 
until, and shall continue only so long as, delivery of Colorado River 
water to downstream Gila River users in Arizona is being accom-
plished in accordance with this Act, in quantities sufficient to replace 
any diminution of their supply resulting from such diversion from the 
Gila River, its tributaries and underground water sources. In deter-
mining the amount required for this purpose full consideration shall 
be given to any differences in the quality of the waters involved. 
(2) The Secretary shall further offer to contract with water users in 
New Mexico for water from the Gila River, its tributaries, and under-
ground water sources in amounts that will permit consumptive uses 
of water in New Mexico of not to exceed an annual average in any 
period of ten consecutive years of an additional thirty thousand acre-
feet, including reservoir evaporation. Such further increases in con-
sumptive use shall not begin until, and shall continue only so lon^ as, 
works capable of augmenting the water suppl^^ of the Colorado River 
system have been completed and water sufficiently in excess of tw^o 
million eight hundred thousand acre-feet per annum is available from 
the main stream of the Colorado River for consumptive use in Arizona 
to provide water for the exchanges herein authorized and provided. 
In determining the amount required for this purpose full consideration 
shall be given to any differences in the quality of the waters involved. 
(3) All additional consumptive uses provided for in clauses (1) 
and (2) of this subsection shall be subject to all rights in New Mexico 
and Arizona as established by the decree entered by the United States 
District Court for the District of Arizona on June 29, 1935, in United 
States against Gila Valley Irrigation District and others (Globe 
Equity Numbered 59) and to all other rights existing on the effective 
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date of this Act in Xew Mexico and Arizona to water from the Gila 
River, its tributaries, and underground water sources, and shall be 
junior thereto and shall be made only to the extent possible without 
economic injury or cost to the holders of such rights. 
(g) For a period of ten years from the date of enactment of this 
Act, no water from the projects authorized by this Act shall be 
delivered to any water user for the production on newly irrigated lands 
of any basic agricultural commodity, as defined in the Agricultural 
Act of 1949, or any amendment thereof, if the total supply of such 
commodity for the marketing year in which the bulk of the crop 
would normally be marketed is in excess of the normal supply as 
defined in section 301(b) (10) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 
1938 (52 Stat. 38), as amended (7 U-S.C. 1301), unless the Secretary 
of Agriculture calls for an increase in production of such commodity 
in the interest of national security. 
SEC. 305. To the extent that the flow of the main stream of the Colo-
rado River is augmented in order to make sufficient water available for 
release, as determined by the Secretary pursuant to article 11(b) (1) of 
the decree of the Supreme Court of the United States in Arizona 
against California (376 U.S. 340), to satisfy annual consumptive 
use of two million eight hundred thousand acre-feet in Arizona, four 
million four hundred thousand acre-feet in California, and three 
hundred thousand acre-feet in Nevada, respectively, the Secretary 
shall make such water available to users of main stream water in those 
States at the same costs (to the extent that such costs can be made 
comparable through the nonreimbursable allocation to the replenish-
ment of the deficiencies occasioned by satisfaction of the Mexican 
Treaty burden as herein provided and financial assistance from the 
development fund established by section 403 of this Act) and on the 
same terms as would be applicable if main stream water were available 
for release in the quantities required to supply such consumptive use. 
SEC. 306. The Secretary shall undertake programs for water salvage 
and ground water recovery along and adjacent to the main stream 
of the Colorado River. Such programs shall be consistent with mainte-
nance of a reasonable degree of undisturbed habitat for fish and wild-
life in the area, as determined by the Secretary. 
SEC. 307. The Dixie Project, heretofore authorized in the State of 
Utah, is hereby reauthorized for construction at the site determined 
feasible by the Secretary, and the Secretary shall integrate such project 
into the repayment arrangement and participation in the Lower Colo-
rado River Basin Development Fund established by title IV of this 
Act consistent with the provisions of the Act: Provided^ That section 8 
of Public Law 88-565 (78 Stat. 848) is hereby amended by deleting 
the figure "$42,700,000" and inserting in lieu thereof the figure 
"$58,000,000". 
SEC. 308. The conservation and development of the fish and wildlife 
resources and the enhancement of recreation opportunities in connec-
tion with the project works authorized pursuant to this title shall be in 
accordance with the provisions of the Federal Water Project Recrea-
tion Act (79 Stat. 213), except as provided in section 302 of this Act. 
SEC. 309. (a) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for con-
struction of the Central Arizona Project, including prepayment for 
power generation and transmission facilities but exclusive of distribu-
tion and drainage facilities for non-Indian lands, $832,180,000 plus 
or minus such amounts, if any, as may be justified by reason of ordi-
nary fluctuations in construction costs as indicated by engineering cost 
indices applicable to the types of construction involved therein and, 
in addition thereto, such sums as may be required for operation and 
maintenance of the project. 
Newly irrigated 
lands, restriction. 
63 Stat. 1051. 
7 u s e 1421 
note. 
62 Stat. 1251. 
Main stream 
water cost. 
Water salvage 
programs. 
Dixie project, 
integration. 
43 u s e 616hh. 
Fish and 
wildlife con-
servation and 
development. 
16 u s e 460^12 
note. 
eentral 
Arizona project, 
appropriation. 
894 
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[82 STAT. 
Non-Indian 
facilities, 
appropriatic 
(b) There is also authorized to be appropriated $100,000,000 for con-
struction of distribution and drainage facilities for non-Indian lands. 
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 403 of this Actj neither ap-
propriations made pursuant to the authorization contained in this 
subsection (b) nor revenues collected in connection with the operation 
of such facilities shall be credited to the Lower Colorado River Basin 
Development Fund and payments shall not be made from that fund 
to the general fund of the Treasury to return any part of the costs of 
construction, operation, and maintenance of such facilities. 
16 u s e 460^12 
note. 
Indian lands, 
repayment capa-
bility. 
Lower 
Colorado River 
Basin Develop-
ment Fund. 
Establishment. 
Ante, p. 88 7. 
TITLE I V ~ L O W E R COLORADO RIVER BASIN DEVELOP-
MENT 
FUND: ALLOCATION 
AND 
REPAYMENT 
OF 
COSTS: CONTRACTS 
SEC. 401. Upon completion of each lower basin unit of the project 
herein or hereafter authorized, or separate feature thereof, the Secre-
tary shall allocate the total costs of constructing said unit or features 
to (1) commercial powder, (2) irrigation, (3) municipal and industrial 
water supply, (4) flood control, (5) navigation, (6) water quality con-
trol, (7) recreation, (8) fish and wildlife, (9) the replenishment of the 
depletion of Colorado River flows available for use in the United States 
occasioned by performance of the Water Treaty of 1944 with the United 
Mexican States (Treaty Series 994; 59 Stat. 1219), and (10) any other 
purposes authorized under the Federal reclamation laws. Costs of 
construction, operation, and maintenance allocated to the replenish-
ment of the depletion of Colorado River flows available for use in 
the Unitfid States occasioned by compliance with the Mexican Water 
Treaty (including losses in transit, evaporation from regulatory res-
ervoirs, and regulatory losses at the Mexican boundary, incurred in 
the transportation, storage, and delivery of water in discharge of the 
obligations of that treaty) shall be nonreimbursable: Provided^ That 
the nonreimbursable allocation shall be made on a pro rata basis to be 
determined by the ratio between the amount of water required to 
comply with the Mexican Water Treaty and the total amount of water 
by which the Colorado River is augmented pursuant to the investiga-
tions authorized by title I I of this Act and any future Congressional 
authorization. The repayment of costs allocated to recreation and fish 
and wildlife enhancement shall be in accordance with the provisions 
of the Federal Water Project Recreation Act (79 Stat. 213): Pro-
vided, That all of the separable and joint costs allocated to recreation 
and fish and wildlife enhancement as a part of the Dixie project, Utah, 
shall be nonreimbursable. Costs allocated to nonreimbursable purposes 
shall be nonreturnable under the provisions of this Act. 
SEC. 402. The Secretary shall determine the repayment capability 
of Indian lands within, under, or served by any unit of the project. 
Construction costs allocated to irrigation of Indian lands (including 
provision of water for incidental domestic and stock water uses) and 
within the repayment capability of such lands shall be subject to the 
Act of July 1, 1932 (47 Stat. 564; 25 U.S.C. 386a), and such costs 
that are beyond repayment capability of such lands shall be 
nonreimbursable. 
SEC. 403. (a) There is hereby established a separate fund in the 
Treasury of the United States to be known as the Lower Colorado 
River Basin Development Fund (hereafter called the "development 
fund"), which shall remain available until expended as hereafter 
provided. 
(b) All appropriations made for the purpose of carrying out the 
provisions of title I I I of this Act shall be credited to thp development 
54 Stat. 775. 
43 u s e 618a. 
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895 
fund as advances from the general fund of the Treasury, and shall be 
available for such purpose. 
(c) There shall also be credited to the development fund— 
(1) all revenues collected in connection with the operation of 
facilities authorized in title I I I in furtherance of the purposes of 
^"'e^ P 887. 
this Act (except entrance, admission, and other recreation fees or 
charges and proceeds received from recreation concessionaires), 
including revenues which, after completion of payout of the Cen-
tral Arizona Project as required herein are surplus, as determined 
by the Secretary, to the operation, maintenance, and replacement 
requirements of said project; 
(2) any Federal revenues from the Boulder Canyon and 
Parker-Davis projects which, after completion of repayment 
requirements of the said Boulder Canyon and Parker-Davis proj-
ects, are surplus, as determined by the Secretary, to the operation, 
maintenance, and replacement requirements of those projects: 
Provided^ however^ That the Secretary is authorized and directed 
to continue the in-lieu-of-tax payments to the States of Arizona 
and Nevada provided for in section 2(c) of the Boulder Canyon 
Project Adjustment Act so long as revenues accrue from the opera-
tion of the Boulder Canyon project; and 
(3) any Federal revenues from that portion of the Pacific North-
west-Pacific Southw^est intertie located in the States of Nevada 
and Arizona which, after completion of repayment requirements 
of the said part of the Pacific Northwest-Pacific Southwest inter-
tie located m the States of Nevada and Arizona, are surplus, as 
determined by the Secretary, to the operation, maintenance, and 
replacement requirements of said portion of the Pacific North-
west-Pacific Southwest intertie and related facilities. 
(d) All moneys collected and credited to the development fund pur- ^ Development 
suant to subsection (b) and clauses (1) and (3) of subsection (c) 
of this section and the portion of revenues derived from the sale of 
power and energy for use in Arizona pursuant to clause (2) of sub-
section (c) of this section shall be available, without further appro-
priation, for— 
(1) defraying the costs of operation, maintenance, and replace-
ments of, and emergency expenditures for, all facilities of the 
projects, within such separate limitations as may be included in 
annual appropriation Acts; and 
(2) payments to reimburse water users in the State of Arizona 
for losses sustained as a result of diminution of the production 
of hydroelectric power at Coolidge Dam, Arizona, resulting from 
exchanges of water between users in the States of Arizona and 
New Mexico as set forth in section 304(f) of this Act. 
(e) Revenues credited to the development fund shall not be available 
for construction of the works comprised within any unit of the project 
herein or hereafter authorized except upon appropriation by the 
Congress. 
(f) Moneys credited to the development fund pursuant to subsection 
(b) and clauses (1) and (3) of subsection (c) of this section and the 
portion of revenues derived from the sale of power and energy for use 
in Arizona pursuant to clause (2) of subsection (c) of this section in 
excess of the amount necessary to meet the requirements of clauses (1) 
and (2) of subsection (d) of this section shall be paid annually to the 
general fund of the Treasury to return— 
(1) the costs of each unit of the projects or separable feature 
thereof authorized pursuant to title i l l of this Act which are 
allocated to irrigation, commercial power, or municipal and indus-
trial water supply, pursuant to this Act within a period not 
fund revenue use. 
896 
PUBLIC L
A
W 90-537-SEPT. 30, 1968 
[82 STAT. 
Interest rate. 
Annual budgets, 
submittal to 
Congress. 
Report to 
Congress. 
exceeding fifty years from the date of completion of eacli sucli 
imit or separable feature, exclusive of any development period 
authorized by law: Provided^ That return of the cost, if any, 
required by section 307 shall not be made until after the payout 
period of the Central Arizona Project as authorized herein; and 
(2) interest (including interest during construction) on the 
unamortized balance of tne investment in the commercial power 
and municipal and industrial water supply features of the project 
at a rate determined by the Secretary of the Treasury in accord-
ance with the provisions of subsection (h) of this section, and 
interest due shall be a first charge. 
(g) All revenues credited to the development fund in accordance 
with clause (c) (2) of this section (excluding only those revenues 
derived from the sale of power and energy for use in Arizona during 
the payout period of the Central Arizona Project as authorized here-
in) and such other revenues as remain in the development fund after 
making the payments required by subsections (d) and (f) of this 
section shall oe available (1) to make payments, if any, as required 
by sections 307 and 502 of this Act, and (2) upon appropriation by the 
Congress, to assist in the repayment of reimbursable costs incurred in 
connection with units hereafter constructed to provide for the aug-
mentation of the water supplies of the Colorado River for use below 
Lee Ferry as may be authorized as a result of the investigations and 
recommendations made pursuant to section 201 and subsection 203(a) 
of this Act. 
(h) The interest rate applicable to those portions of the reimbursable 
costs of each unit of the project which are properly allocated to com-
mercial power development and municipal and industrial water supply 
shall be determined by the Secretary oi the Treasury, as of the begin-
ning of the fiscal year in which the first advance is made for initiating 
construction of such unit, on the basis of the computed average intere^ 
rate payable by the Treasury upon its outstanding marketable public 
obligations which are neither due nor callable tor redemption for 
fifteen years from the date of issue. 
(i) Business-type budgets shall be submitted to the Congress 
annually for all operations financed by the development fund. 
SEC. 404. On January 1 of each y_ear the Secretary shall report to 
the Congress, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, 
upon the status of the revenues from and the cost of constructing, 
operating, and maintaining each lower basin unit of the project for 
the preceding fiscal year. The report of the Secretary shall be prepared 
to reflect accurately the Federal investment allocated at that time to 
power, to irrigation, and to other purposes, the progress of return 
and repayment thereon, and the estimated rate of progress, year by 
year, in accomplishing full repayment. 
TITLE V—UPPER COLORADO RIVER BASIN: AUTHORI-
ZATIONS AND REIMBURSEMENTS 
SEC. 501. (a) In order to provide for the construction, operation, and 
maintenance of the Animas-La Plata Federal reclamation project, 
(Colorado-New Mexico; the Dolores, Dallas Creek, West Divide, and 
San Miguel Federal reclamation projects, Colorado; and the Central 
Utah project (Uintah unit), Utah, as participating projects under the 
Colorado River Storage Project Act (70 Stat. 105; 43 U.S.C. 620), and 
to provide for the completion of planning reports on other participat-
ing projects, clause (2) of section 1 of said Act is hereby further 
amended by (i) inserting the words "and the Uintah unit" after the 
82 STAT. ] 
PUBLIC LAW 90-537-SEPT. 30, 1968 
897 
word "phase'- within the parenthesis following "Central Utah", (ii) 
deleting the words ''Pine River Extension*' and inserting in lieu 
thereof the words "Animas-La Plata, Dolores, Dallas Creek, "West 
Divide, San Miguel", (iii) adding after the words "Smith Fork:'' the 
proviso ^''Prcyvlded^ That construction of the Uintah unit of the Central 
Utah project shall not be undertaken by the Secretary until he has 
completed a feasibility report on such unit and submitted such report 
Report to 
to the Congress along with his certification that, in his judgment, the 
°"8'"*^^-
benefits of such unit or segment will exceed the costs and that such 
unit is physically and financially feasible, and the Congress has au-
thorized the appropriation of funds for the construction thereof:". 
Section 2 of said Act is hereby further amended by (i) deleting the 
'^^ '^^c 620a. 
words "Parshall, Troublesome, Rabbit Ear, San Miguel, West Divide, 
Tomichi Creek, East River, Ohio Creek, Dallas Creek, Dolores, Fruit 
Growers Extension, Animas-La Plata", and inserting after the words 
"Yellow' Jacket" the words "Basalt Middle Park (including the 
Troublesome, Rabbit Ear, and Azure units), Upper Gunnison (includ-
ing the East River, Ohio Creek, and Tomichi Creek units), Lower 
Yampa (including the Juniper and Great Northern units). Upper 
Yampa (including the Hay 
den Mesa, Wessels, and Toponas units)"; 
(ii) by inserting after the word "Sublette" the words "(including a 
diversion of water from the Green River to the North Platte River 
Basin in Wyoming), Ute Indian unit of the Central Utah Project, San 
Juan County (Utah), Price River, Grand County (Utah), Gray 
Canyon, and Juniper (Utah)"; and (iii) changing the period after 
"projects" to a colon and adding the following proviso: '"''Provided^ 
That the planning report for the Ute Indian unit of the Central Utah 
participating project shall be completed on or before December 31, 
1974, to enable the United States of America to meet the commitments 
heretofore made to the L"te Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray 
Indian Reservation under the agreement dated September 20, 1965 
(Contract Numbered 14-06-W-194).". The amount which section 12 . Authorization 
of said Act authorizes to be appropriated is hereby further increased ^""a^u^s^c 62ok. 
by the sum of $392,000,000, plus or minus such amounts, if any, as 
may be required, by reason of changes in construction costs as indicated 
by engineering cost indices applicable to the type of construction 
involved. This additional sum shall be available solely for the con-
struction of the Animas-La Plata, Dolores, Dallas Creek, West Divide, 
and San Miguel projects herein authorized. 
(b) The Secretary is directed to proceed as nearly as practicable 
with the construction of the Animas-La Plata, Dolores, Dallas Creek, 
West Divide, and San Miguel participating Federal reclamation proj-
ects concurrently with the construction of tlie Central Arizona Project, 
to the end that such projects shall be completed not later than the date 
of the first delivery of water from said Central Arizona Project: Pro-
vided^ That an appropriate repayment contract for each of said par-
ticipating projects shall have been executed as provided in section 4 
of the (Colorado River Storage Project Act (70 Stat. 107) before con- 
43 use 620c. 
struction shall start on that particular project. 
(c) The Animas-La Plata Federal reclamation project shall be pi'triTeJerai 
constructed and operated in substantial accordance with the engineer- reclamation 
ing plans set out in the report of the Secretary transmitted to the Con- ^'°^^„^'j,^°""^"' 
gress on May 4, 1966, and printed as House Document 436, Eighty-
ninth Congress: Provided^ That construction of the Animas-La Plata 
Federal reclamation project shall not be undertaken until and unless 
the States of Colorado and New Mexico shall have ratified the follow-
ing compact to which the consent of Congress is hereby given: 
of Congress. 
898 
PUBLIC LAW 90-537-SEPT. 30, 1968 
[82 STAT. 
"ANIMAS-LA PLATA PROJECT COMPACT 
"The State of Colorado and the State of New Mexico, in order to 
implement the operation of the Animas-La Phita Federal Reclamation 
Project, Colorado-New Mexico, a proposed participating project under 
the Colorado River Storage Project Act (70 Stat. 105; 48 U.S.C. 620) 
and being moved by considerations of interstate comity, have resolved 
to conclude a compact for these purposes and have agreed upon the 
following articles: 
"ARTICLE I 
"A. The right to store and divert water in Colorado and New Mexico 
from the La Plata and Animas River systems, including return flow to 
the La Plata River from Animas River diversions, for uses in New 
Mexico under the Animas-La Plata Federal Reclamation Project shall 
be valid and of equal priority with those rights granted by decree of 
the Colorado state courts for the uses of w^ater in Colorado for that 
project, providing such uses in New" Mexico are within the allocation 
of water made to that state by articles I I I and XIV of the Upper Colo-
rado River Basin Compact (63 Stat. 31). 
"B. The restrictions of the last sentence of Section (a) of Article I X 
of the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact shall not be construed to 
vitiate paragraph A of this article. 
"ARTICLE 
I I 
"This Compact shall become binding and obligatory when it shall 
have been ratified by the legislatures of each of the signatory States." 
(d) The Secretary shall, for the Animas-La Plata, Dolores, Dallas 
Creek, San Miguel, West Divide, and Seedskadee participating proj-
ects of the Colorado River storage project, establish the nonexcess irri-
gable acreage for which any single ownership may receive project 
water at one hundred and sixty acres of class 1 land or the equivalent 
thereof, as determined by the Secretary, in other land classes. 
(e) In the diversion and storage of water for any project or any parts 
thereof constructed under the authority of this Act or the Colorado 
River Storage Project Act within and for the benefit of the State of 
Colorado only, the Secretary is directed to comply with the constitu-
tion and statutes of the State of Colorado relating to priority of appro-
priation ; with State and Federal court decrees entered pursuant there-
to ; and with operating principles, if any, adopted by the Secretary and 
approved by the State of Colorado. 
(f) The words "any western slope appropriations'" contained in 
paragraph (i) of that section of Senate Document Numbered 80, 
Seventy-fifth Congress, first session, entitled "Manner of Operation 
of Project Facilities and Auxiliary Features", shall mean and refer 
to the appropriation heretofore made for the storage of water in 
Green Mountain Reservoir, a unit of the Colorado-Big Thompson 
Federal reclamation project, Colorado; and the Secretary is directed 
to act in accordance with such meaning and reference. It is the sense 
of Congress that this directive defines and observes the purpose of 
said paragraph (i), and does not in any way affect or alter any rights 
or obligations arising under said Senate Document Numbered 80 
or under the laws of the State of Colorado. 
SEC. 502. The Upper Colorado River Basin Fund established under 
section 5 of the Colorado River Storage Project Act (70 Stat. 107; 43 
U.S.C. 620d) shall be reimbursed from the Colorado River Develop-
ment Fund established by section 2 of the Boulder Canyon Project 
' 
Adjustment Act (54 Stat. 774; 43 U.S.Cl 51«a) for the money ex-
pended heretofore or hereafter from the L^pper Colorado River Basin 
82 STAT. ] 
PUBLIC LAW 90-537-SEPT. 30, 1968 
899 
Fund to meet deficiencies in generation at Hoover Dam during the 
filling period of storage units of the Colorado River storage project 
pursuant to the criteria for the filling of Glen Canyon Reservoir (27 
Fed. Reg. 6851, July 19, 1962). For this purpose, $500,000 for each 
year of operation of Hoover Dam and pow^rplant, commencing with 
fiscal year 1970, shall be transferred from the Colorado River Devel-
opment Fund to the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund, in lieu of 
application of said amounts to the purposes stated in section 2(d) 
of the Boulder Canjron Project Adjustment Act, until such reim-
bursement is accomplished. To the extent that any deficiency in such 
reimbursement remains as of June 1, 1987, the amount of the re-
maining deficiency shall then be transferred to the Upper Colorado 
River Basin Fund from the Lower Colorado River Basin Develop-
ment Fund, as provided in subsection (g) of section 403. 
62 Stat. 284. 
43 use 618a. 
TITLE VI—GENERAL PROVISIONS: DEFINITIONS: 
CONDITIONS 
SEC. 601. (a) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to alter, amend, 
repeal, modify, or be in conflict with the provisions of the Colorado 
River Compact (45 Stat. 1057), the Upper Colorado River Basin Com-
pact (63 Stat. 31), the Water Treaty of 1944 with the United Mexican 
States (Treaty Series 994; 59 Stat. 1219), the decree entered by the 
Supreme Court of the United States in Arizona against California and 
others (376 U.S. 340), or, except as otherwise provided herein, the 
Boulder Canyon Project Act (45 Stat. 1057), the Boulder Canyon 
Project Adjustment Act (54 Stat. 774; 43 U.S.C. 618a) or the Colorado 
River Storage Project Act (70 Stat. 105; 43 U.S.C. 620). 
(b) The Secretary is directed to— 
(1) make reports as to the annual consumptive uses and losses 
of water from the Colorado River system after each successive five-
year period, beginning with the five-year period starting on Octo-
ber 1,1970. Such reports shall include a detailed breakdown of the 
beneficial consumptive use of water on a State-by-State basis. 
Specific figures on quantities consumptively used from the major 
tributary streams flowing into the Colorado River shall also be 
included on a 
State-by-State basis. Such reports shall be pre-
pared in consultation with the States of the lower basin individ-
ually and with the Upper Colorado River Commission, and shall 
be transmitted to the President, the Congress, and to the Gov-
ernors of each State signatory to the Colorado River Compact; 
and 
(2) condition all contracts for the delivery of water originating 
in the drainage basin of the Colorado River system upon the 
availability of water under the Colorado River Compact. 
(c) All Federal officers and agencies are directed to comply with the 
applicable provisions of this Act, and of the laws, treaty, compacts, and 
decree referred to in subsection (a) of this section, in the storage and 
release of water from all reservoirs and in the operation and mainte-
nance of all facilities in the Colorado River system under the jurisdic-
tion and supervision of the Secretary, and in the operation and main-
tenance of all works which may be authorized hereafter for the aug-
mentation of the water suppW of the Colorado River system. In the 
event of failure of any such officer or agency to so comply, any affected 
State may maintain an action to enforce the provisions of this sec-
tion in_ the Supreme Court of the United States and consent is given 
to the joinder of the United States as a party in such suit or suits, as 
a defendant or otherwise. 
43 use 617t. 
Reports to the 
President, eon-
gress, etc. 
Federal offi-
cers and agen-
cies, compliance. 
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PUBLIC LAW 90-537-SEPT. 30, 1968 
[82 STAT. 
63 Stat. 31; 
59 Stat. 1219. 
70 Stat. 105; 
45 Stat. 1057; 
54 Stat. 779. 
43 u s e 620, 
6I7t, 6180. 
Criteria, 
review and 
comment. 
Publication 
in Federal 
Register. 
Report to 
Congress, 
etc. 
43 u s e 620f-
SEC. 602. (a) In order to comply with and carry out the provisions 
of the Colorado River Compact, the Upper Colorado River Basin 
Compact, and the Mexican Water Treaty, the Secretary shall propose 
criteria for the coordinated long-range operation of the reservoirs con-
structed and operated under the authority of the Colorado River Stor-
age Project Act, the Boulder Canyon Project Act, and the Boulder 
Canyon Project Adjustment Act. To effect in part the purposes ex-
pressed in this paragi'aph, the criteria shall make provision for the 
storage of water in storage units of the Colorado River storage project 
and releases of water from Lake Powell in the following listed order 
of priority: 
(1) releases to supply one-half the deficiency described in ar-
ticle III(c) of the Colorado River Compact, if any such defi-
ciency exists and is chargeable to the States of the Upper Division, 
but in any event such releases, if any, shall not be required in any 
year that the Secretary makes the determination and issues the 
proclamation specified in section 202 of this Act; 
(2) releases to comply with article I l l ( d ) of the Colorado 
River Compact, less such quantities of water delivered into the 
Colorado River below Lee Ferry to the credit of the States of the 
Upper Division from other sources; and 
(3) storage of water not required for the releases specified in 
clauses (1) and (2) of this subsection to the extent that the Sec-
retary, after consultation with the Upper Colorado River Com-
mission and representatives of the three Lower Division States 
and taking into consideration all relevant factors (including, but 
not limited to, historic stream-flows, the most critical period of 
record, and probabilities of water supply), shall find this to be 
reasonably necessary to assure deliveries under clauses (1) and 
(2) without impairment of annual consumptive uses in the upper 
basin pursuant to the Colorado River Compact: Provided. 
That 
water not so required to be stored shall be released from Lake 
Powell: (i) to the extent it can be reasonably applied in the States 
of the Lower Division to the uses specified in article Ill(e) of 
the Colorado River Compact, but no such releases shall be made 
when the active storage in Lake Powell is less than the active stor-
age in Lake Mead, (ii) to maintain, as nearly as practicable, active 
storage in Lake Mead equal to the active storage in Lake Powell, 
and (iii) to avoid anticipated spills from Lake Powell. 
(b) I^ot later than January 1,1970, the criteria proposed in accord-
ance with the foregoing subsection (a) of this section shall be sub-
mitted to the Governors of the seven Colorado River Basin States and 
to such other parties and agencies as the Secretary may deem appro-
priate for their review and comment. After receipt of comments on the 
proposed criteria, but not later than July 1, 1970, the Secretary shall 
adopt appropriate criteria in accordance with this section and publish 
the same in the Federal Register. Beginning January 1, 1972, and 
yearly thereafter, the Secretary shall transmit to the Congress and 
to the Governors of the Colorado River Basin States a report describ-
ing the actual operation under the adopted criteria for the preceding 
compact water year and the projected operation for the current year. 
As a result of actual operating experience or unforeseen circumstances, 
the Secretary may thereafter modify the criteria to better achieve the 
purposes specified in subsection (a) of this section, but only after cor-
respondence with the Governors of the seven Colorado River Basin 
States and appropriate consultation with such State representatives as 
each Governor may designate. 
(c) Section 7 of the Colorado River Storage Project Act shall be 
administered in accordance with the foreffoins: criteria. 
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PUBLIC LAW 90-538-SEPT. 30, 1968 
901 
SEC. 603. (a) Rights of the upper basin to the consumptive use of 
Avater available to that basin from the Colorado River system under 
the Colorado River Compact shall not be reduced or prejudiced by any 
use of such water in the lower basin. 
(b) Nothing in this Act shall be construed so as to impair, conflict 
with, or otherwise change the duties and powers of the Upper Colorado 
River Commission. 
SEC. 604. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, in construct-
ing, operating, and maintaining the units of the projects herein 
and hereafter authorized, the Secretary shall be governed by the Fed-
eral reclamation laws (Act of June l7, 1902; 32 Stat. 388, and Acts 
amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto) to which laws this Act 
43 use 371 
shall be deemed a supplement. 
SEC. 605. Part I of the Federal Power Act (41 Stat. 1063; 16 U.S.C. 
791a-823) shall not be applicable to the reaches of the main stream of 
the Colorado River between Hoover Dam and Glen Canyon Dam until 
and unless otherwise provided by Congress. 
SEC. 606. As used in this Act, (a) all terms which are defined in the 
Definitions. 
Colorado River Compact shall have the meanings therein defined; 
(b) "Main stream" means the main stream of the Colorado River 
downstream from Lee Ferry within the United States, including the 
reservoirs thereon; 
(c) "User" or "water user" in relation to main stream water in the 
lower basin means the United States or any person or legal entity en-
titled under the decree of the Supreme Court of the United States in 
Arizona against California, and others (376 U.S. 340), to use main 
stream water when available thereunder; 
(d) "Active storage" means that amount of water in reservoir stor-
age, exclusive of bank storage, which can be released through the exist-
ing reservoir outlet works; 
(e) "Colorado River Basin States" means the States of Arizona, 
California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming; 
(f) "Western United States" means those States lying wholly or in 
part west of the Continental Divide; and 
(g) "Augment" or "augmentation", when used herein with reference 
to water, means to increase the supply of the Colorado River or its 
tributaries by the introduction of water into the Colorado River sys-
tem, which is in addition to the natural supply of the system. 
Approved September 30, 1968. 
Public Law 90-538 
AN A C T 
SeptemberSO, 1968 
To authorize preschool and early education programs for handicapped children. 
[H.R.18763] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Ainerica in Congress assembled^ That this Act Handicapped 
may be cited as the "Handicapped Children's Early PMucation As- Educ'^iru.'n AsMst-
Sistance A c t " . 
ance Act. 
PROGRAM AUTHORIZED 
SEC. 2, (a) The Commissioner of Education (hereafter in this title 
referred to as the "Commissioner") is authorized to arrange by con-
tract, grant, or otherwise with appropriate public agencies and private 
nonprofit organizations, for the development and carrying out by such 
agencies and organizations of experimental preschool and early educa-
tion programs for handicapped children which the Commissioner 
determines show promise of promoting a comprehensive and strength-