82D CONGRESS 2D SESSION Calendar No. 1650
H. R.
2813
[Report No. 1719]AN ACT
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to
construct, operate, and maintain the Coll-bran reclamation project, Colorado, and to provide for disposition of the project upon
completion of repayment.
MAY 20 (legislative day, MAY 12), 1952 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Interior
and Insular Aff11.irs JUNE 10, 1952
Calendar No. 1650
82oCONGRESS 2o SF.SsION ·H R
2813
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[Report No. 1719]
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MAY :20 ( legislative day, MAY 12), 1952Read twice and referred to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affai,rs JUNE 10, 1952
Reported by l\Ir. MILLIKIN, with amendments (. l Omit the part strn<.:k through and insert the part printed in italic]
AN
ACT
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Collbran reclamation project, Colorado, ai;id to provide for disposition of the project upon completion of repayment.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and I-louse of Representa-(; 2 tiues of the United States of Ame1·ica in Congress assembled, 3 That, for the purpose of supplying water for the-irrigation of 4 approximately t,Yenty-one thousand acres of land and for 5 municipal, domestic, industrial, and stockwater uses and of 6 pro5ucing and disposing of hydroelectric power and, as inci~
7 dental to said purposes, for the further purpose of providing 8 for the pre erYation and propagation of fish and wildlife; 9 the Secretarv of the Interior is authorized to construct the 10 Collbran reclamation project, Colorado, substantially m
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1 cord with the plans set forth in the report of the Bureau of
2 Reclamation approved by him, May 9, 1950, the estimated
.3 construction cost of which project is approximately $16,086,-4 000, and to operate and maintain the same. Upon final
5 payment 6f eJl moneys dtte te the Federal Government &
6 ftfiY ageney thereof undm:· the p1·ovisions 6f this :Aet & einy
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eontl'tWt Written in eomplianee therewith, all foeilities 6r~ ftilY integral pa.rt thereof eonstnieted under the provisions
9 ef this Aet
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existing fbt the time 6f final pa,yment shall,-q
be assigned, eonveyed, and delPrnred te these ase:rs & publie!]; em·poration & assoeia.tion e-f users la;wfully entitled te reeeive
~ -them & ftilY part thereof.
13 SEC. 2. In constructing, operating, and maintaining the
14 Collbran project, the Secretary shall be governed by the
15 Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat.
16 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto) ----.:.__..__._ except so fa as these laws are inconsistent with this Act:
18 Provided, That any contract entered into pursuant to
sub-. 19- section ( d) of section 9 of the Reclamation Project Act of 20 1939 ( 53 Stat. 1187) may provide that the general
repay-21 ment obligation shall be spread in annual installments, in
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22 number and amounts satisfactory to the Secretary, over a 23 period of not exceeding fifty years, exclusive of any develop-24 ment period as therein provided, for any project contract 25 unit or for any irrigation block, if the project contract unit
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1 be divided into two or more irrigation blocks: Pre'l7ided
2 ftt'P~ !l%fbt contracts fer the supply
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water fer· municipal 3 tHl:d miscellaneous purposes, ether than irrigation, ft;Il6: fer4 the sale
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commercial power shall be cntc:rcd into having 5 regard fer -the amortizationet
the capital investment allocable 6 to sueh pm-poses wcr t1i periodet
filty years, er as nee.P.7 thm·eof ftS IDfbY be pmcticable, with inte:rest
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the unamo:r8 tired balances the:reof at a rate n&t less thtm the a.ve:rage rate 9 pattl by the United States en its long term leans outstanding
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this Aet becomes kbw Provided further, That,11 notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, net
12 revenues derived from the sale of commercial power and
13 from the furnishing of water for municipal, domestic, and
14 industrial use shall be applied, first, to the amortization, with
15 interest, of those portions of the actual cost of the
construc-16 tion of the project which are allocated, respectively, to
com-17 mercial power and to nici al, do'!}'l,estic, and industrial
18 wa er supply; and, thereafter, shall be applied to
amortiza-19 tion of that portion of the cost allocated to irrigation which
20 is beyond the ability of the irrigation water users to repay
21 wi.thin the period specified above. Amortization of that
22 portion of the construction cost allocated to commercial
23 power shall include interest on the unamortized balance
24 thereof at 3 per centum per annum. Repayment of that
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1 is allocated to municipal, domestic, and industrial water
2·. supply and of interest on the unamortized balance the1·eof at 3.
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rate ( which rate shall be certified by the Secretary of the-4 · ·T1·easury) equal to the average rate paid by the United .5 · States on its long-term loans outstandin.(J at the time the 6 repayment contract is negotiated minus the amount of such
7 net revenues as may be derived from temporary water sup-8 ply contracts or from other sources prior to the close of the 9 repayment period, shall be assured by a contract or contracts 10 , satisfactory to the Secretary, the term of which shall not
[1 exceed fifty .Jlears from the date of completion of the municipal I I
12 and industrial water , supply features of the project as 13 determined by the sJcretary.
14 SEO. 3. There are hem by authorized to be appropriated~
15 out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise
appro-16 priated, approximately $16,086,000 to carry out the
pur-- pur-- pur--~7 11oses of this Act.
18 SEO. 4. This Act and all works constiucted nereunder
19 shall be subject to and controlled by the Colorado River
20 Compact dated November 24, 1922, and proclaimed effective 21 by the President June 25, 1929, the Boulder Canyon Proj~
22 ect Act approved December 2, 1928, the Upper Colorado
23 River Ba in Compact dated October 11, 1948, and the
24 · · Mexican vVater Treaty, and no right or claim of right to the
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1 use of the waters of the Colorado River shall be aided or
2 prejudiced hereby.
Amend the title so as to read: "An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and main-tain the Collbran reclamation project, Colorado."
Passed the House of Representatives May 19, 1952.
Attest: RALPH R. ROBERTS,
