Reclamation Facilities Transfer Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, on S. 620 ... May 23, 1995, Band 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995 - 71 Seiten |
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acquired lands acre-feet addressed assets authority Basin Tribes BEARD benefits bill Bureau of Reclamation Burley Irrigation District canals Carlsbad Chairman Choke Canyon Reservoir committee concerns Congress construction charges Corpus Christi distribution system DONNELLY Elephant Butte eligible project beneficiaries Endangered Species Act environmental eral Facilities Transfer Act Federal Government flood control fund going Idaho Indian interests Interior irrigation projects issue Lake Corpus Christi Lake Texana lamation legislation liability ment Minidoka Dam Minidoka Project negotiations NEPA Nueces River NWRA operation and maintenance ownership paid-out Palisades Dam problems project facilities project sponsors questions Reclamation Act Reclamation Facilities Transfer Reclamation Program repaid responsibilities revenues Sayre Secretary Senator CAMPBELL Senator CRAIG Senator KYL Senator THOMAS specific stakeholders STATEMENT taxpayers Thank tion title and operational title transfer trans transfer of title transfer title treaties tribal Tribes U.S. SENATOR United water rights water supplies water users ZIGLAR
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Seite 24 - That whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized ana acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Seite 24 - That when the payments required by this Act are made for the major portion of the lands irrigated from the waters of any of the works herein provided for, then the management and operation of such irrigation •works shall pass to the owners of the lands irrigated thereby...
Seite 33 - These irrigation works should be built by the National Government. The lands reclaimed by them should be reserved by the Government for actual settlers, and the cost of construction should so far as possible be repaid by the land reclaimed.
Seite 26 - Interior through the Bureau of Reclamation, and financed in whole or in part with moneys heretofore or hereafter appropriated or allocated therefor by the Federal Government, shall be covered into the reclamation fund, except in cases where provision has been made by law or contract for the use 3fi-201— (64 .6 of such revenues for the benefit of users of water from such project...
Seite 24 - That the right to the use of water acquired under the provisions of this Act shall be appurtenant to the land irrigated, and beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure, and the limit of the right.
Seite 24 - That it shall be lawful for any citizen of the United States, or any person of requisite age " who may be entitled to become a citizen, and who has filed his declaration to become such...
Seite 32 - Association (NWRA) is a nonprofit federation of associations and individuals dedicated to the conservation, enhancement, and efficient management of our Nation's most precious natural resource, WATER. The NWRA is the oldest and most active national association concerned with water resources policy and development. Its strength is a reflection of the tremendous 'grassroots...
Seite 25 - That, whenever any legally organized water users' association or irrigation district shall so request, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to transfer to such water users' association or irrigation district the care, operation, and maintenance of all or any part of the project works, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe.
Seite 55 - Agency; the US Fish and Wildlife Service; the National Marine Fisheries Service, and other Federal, state, and local agencies to facilitate his decision on what initial corrective measures are required.
Seite 60 - No Indian nation or tribe, within the territory of the United States shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe, or power, with whom the United States may contract by treaty ; but no obligation of any treaty lawfully made and ratified with any such Indian nation or tribe prior to March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, shall be hereby invalidated or impaired.