Arkansas River Compact. Hearings on ... H.R. 4151, a Bill to Grant the Consent of the United States to the Arkansas River Compact ... April 30, 19491949 - 50 páginas |
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500 cubic feet 60 percent acre-feet agreement approved Arkansas River Basin Arkansas River Compact Army engineers authorized BARRETT Chairman Chief of Engineers CLAIR ENGLE Colo Colorado and Kansas Colorado River compact Colorado Water Conservation Colorado Water District Colorado water users commission Commissioners for Colorado committee Congress Congressman Hope Congressman Marsalis consent conservation pool construction controversy Corps of Engineers decreed priorities ditches diversion effect Federal agencies Federal representative feet per second Finney County flood control storage Gail Governor hereby House of Representatives interests Ireland irrigation John Martin Dam John Martin Reservoir Judge Stone KNAPP Kramer legislatures litigation Martin Reservoir project Mendenhall Mexico MILLER MURDOCK NORRIS POULSON operation proposed compact Purgatoire River pursuant question rado releases of stored river flow Roland H SECTION Stateline statement stored water Supreme Court tion tributary Trinchera Creek users in Colorado VIDAL Water Conservation Board Water District 67 water rights WELCH WILLIAM LEMKE
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Página 4 - Government control will be demanded and will have to be worked out, both in the interest of the public and in the interest of the security holders of these railroads.
Página 5 - Perform all functions required of it by this Compact and do all things necessary, proper or convenient in the performance of its duties hereunder, either independently or in cooperation with any state or federal agency...
Página 1 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress is hereby given to...
Página 33 - This Compact is not intended to impede or prevent future beneficial development of the Arkansas River basin in Colorado and Kansas by Federal or State agencies, by private enterprise, or by combinations thereof, which may involve construction of dams, reservoirs and other works for the purposes of water utilization and control, as well as the improved or prolonged functioning of existing works: Provided, that the waters of the Arkansas River, as defined in Article III, shall not be materially depleted...
Página 1 - REPUBLICAN RIVER COMPACT The States of Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska, parties signatory to this compact (hereinafter referred to as Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska, respectively, or individually as a State, or collectively as the States), having resolved to conclude a compact with respect to the waters of the...
Página 26 - The reason for judicial caution in adjudicating the relative rights of States in such cases is that, while we have Jurisdiction of such disputes, they involve the Interests of quasi-sovereigns, present complicated and delicate questions, and, due to the possibility of future change of conditions, necessitate expert administration rather than judicial imposition of a hard and fast rule.
Página 29 - States lying wholly or party west of the ninety-eighth meridian shall be only such use as does not conflict with any beneficial consumptive use, present or future, in States lying wholly or partly west of the ninety-eighth meridian, of such waters for domestic, municipal, stock water, irrigation, mining, or industrial purposes.
Página 26 - ... present complicated and delicate questions, and, due to the possibility of future change of conditions, necessitate expert administration rather than judicial imposition of a hard and fast rule. Such controversies may appropriately be composed by negotiation and agreement, pursuant to the compact clause of the federal Constitution. We say of this case, as the court has said of interstate differences of like nature, that such mutual accommodation and agreement should, if possible, be the medium...
Página 5 - Where the name of the state or the term "state" is used in this Compact these shall be construed to include any person or entity of any nature whatsoever using, claiming or in any manner asserting any right to the use of the waters of the Arkansas river under the authority of that state.