Colorado River Storage Project

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Page 666 - The service thus established shall promote and regulate the, use of the Federal areas known as national parks, monuments, and reservations hereinafter specified by such means and measures as conform to the fundamental purpose of the said parks, monuments, and reservations, which purpose is to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment...
Page 553 - reclamation fund, to be used in the examination and survey for and the construction and maintenance of irrigation works for the storage, diversion, and development of waters for the reclamation of arid and semiarid lands in the said States and Territories...
Page 514 - The CHAIRMAN. The committee will recess until 2 o'clock. (Whereupon, at 12 : 25 pm, a recess was taken until 2 pm of the same day.) AFTERNOON SESSION (The hearing was resumed at 2 pm) The CHAIRMAN.
Page 621 - HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of a resolution adopted...
Page iv - ... is authorized and directed to investigate, plan, construct, operate, and maintain (1) public recreational facilities on lands withdrawn or acquired for the development of said project or of said participating projects, to conserve the scenery, the natural, historic, and archeologic objects, and the wildlife on said lands, and to provide for public use and enjoyment of the same and of the water areas created by these projects by such means as are consistent with the primary purposes of said projects;...
Page 620 - I hereby certify, that the foregoing is a full, true, and correct copy of a resolution adopted...
Page 280 - October next succeeding the ratification of this compact. (e) The States of the Upper Division shall not withhold water, and the States of the Lower Division shall not require the delivery of water, which cannot reasonably be applied to domestic and agricultural uses.
Page 550 - States is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to declare by public proclamation historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest that are situated upon the lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States to be national monuments, and may reserve as a part thereof parcels of land, the limits of which in all cases shall be confined to the smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of the objects to be...
Page 553 - ... to withdraw from entry, except under the homestead laws, any public lands believed to be susceptible of irrigation from said works...
Page 674 - American Society of Civil Engineers, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Institute of Electrical Engineers, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, and National Council of State Boards of Engineering Examiners.

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