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[CITE: 43USC1501]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
                CHAPTER 32--COLORADO RIVER BASIN PROJECT
 
                        SUBCHAPTER I--OBJECTIVES
 
Sec. 1501. Congressional declaration of purpose and policy

    (a) It is the object of this chapter 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, and for municipal, industrial, and other beneficial purposes; 
improving water quality; providing for basic public 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 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 
chapter 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.

(Pub. L. 90-537, title I, Sec. 102, Sept. 30, 1968, 82 Stat. 886.)

                       References in Text

    This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original ``this Act'', 
meaning Pub. L. 90-537, Sept. 30, 1968, 82 Stat. 885, as amended, known 
as the Colorado River Basin Project Act, which enacted this chapter and 
sections 616aa-1, 620a-1, 620a-2, 620c-1, and 620d-1 of this title, 
amended sections 616hh, 620, and 620a of this title, and enacted 
provisions set out as notes under sections 620, 620k, and 1501 of this 
title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short 
Title note set out below and Tables.


                               Short Title

    Section 101 of Pub. L. 90-537 provided: ``That this Act [enacting 
this chapter and sections 616aa-1, 620a-1, 620a-2, 620c-1, and 620d-1 of 
this title, amending sections 616hh, 620, and 620a of this title, and 
enacting provisions set out as notes under sections 620, 620k, and 1501 
of this title] may be cited as the `Colorado River Basin Project Act'.''


                            Cross References

    Compliance with Colorado law in diversion and storage of water for 
projects constructed under authority of this chapter if located within 
and intended for benefit of Colorado only, see section 620c-1 of this 
title.
