Water Rights Settlement Act: Hearings Before the Sucomittee on Irrigation and Reclamation of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session, on S. 863, a Bill to Govern the Control, Appropriation, Use, and Distribution of Water ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956 - 622 páginas |
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... issue licenses for power development ' upon any part of the public lands and reservations of the United States . ' *** The definition of those terms in the act says nothing about water rights . And , as I have pointed out , it has been ...
... issue licenses for power development ' upon any part of the public lands and reservations of the United States . ' *** The definition of those terms in the act says nothing about water rights . And , as I have pointed out , it has been ...
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... issue is one of tremendous importance to the Nation . I have discussed the question in great detail , so that the people of the West may know the dangers inherent in this situation . I have printed the committee print of the proposed ...
... issue is one of tremendous importance to the Nation . I have discussed the question in great detail , so that the people of the West may know the dangers inherent in this situation . I have printed the committee print of the proposed ...
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... issue is one of tremendous importance to the Nation . The people of the West have considered these questions for many years . The attorneys general and the State engineers of the West met in Denver in 1943 and agreed unanimously on the ...
... issue is one of tremendous importance to the Nation . The people of the West have considered these questions for many years . The attorneys general and the State engineers of the West met in Denver in 1943 and agreed unanimously on the ...
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... issues had been floated and tremendous investments had been used to reclaim these lands . Now , if they won that suit that enough water had been withdrawn . for this Indian reservation merely by withdrawing the lands under Government ...
... issues had been floated and tremendous investments had been used to reclaim these lands . Now , if they won that suit that enough water had been withdrawn . for this Indian reservation merely by withdrawing the lands under Government ...
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... issue a license for the major hydroelectric power project on the Deschutes River . While at the present time in Wyoming , most all Federal agencies are complying with our laws , I feel that the Pelton case may be used as a precedent ...
... issue a license for the major hydroelectric power project on the Deschutes River . While at the present time in Wyoming , most all Federal agencies are complying with our laws , I feel that the Pelton case may be used as a precedent ...
Términos y frases comunes
adjudication amendment application Arizona Attorney authority BANKS beneficial BENNETT bill California Central Valley project Chairman CHILSON claim Colonel ROBERTSON Colorado commerce clause committee compact comply constitutional construction consumptive Defense Deschutes River Desert Land Act enacted engineer existing rights Federal agencies Federal Government Federal Power Act Federal Power Commission filed Flood Control GATCHELL granted GRIMES Hawthorne Indian interests Interior irrigation jurisdiction legislation license matter ment navigable Navy Nevada Oregon ownership Pelton Dam problem property rights proposed public domain public lands purposes question RANKIN Reclamation Act recognized require riparian River RODERICK Secretary Senator ANDERSON Senator BARRETT Senator KUCHEL Senator MALONE Senator O'MAHONEY Senator WATKINS SHAMBERGER South Dakota Stat statement stream Supreme Court tion unappropriated water underground water United vested rights water law water resources water rights water supply West Western Wyoming
Pasajes populares
Página 37 - ... 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 and 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, and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed...
Página 151 - That nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting or intended to affect or to in any way interfere with the laws of any State or Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder...
Página 397 - If any provision of this Act or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances shall be held invalid, the remainder of the Act, and the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby.
Página 151 - Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder, and the Secretary of the Interior, in carrying out the provisions of this Act, shall proceed in conformity with such laws...
Página 291 - No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, . . .
Página 295 - States lying wholly or partly west of the 98th 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 98th meridian, of such waters for domestic, municipal, stock water, irrigation, mining, or industrial purposes.
Página 100 - ... 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 291 - ... and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed ; but whenever any person, in the construction of any ditch or canal, injures or damages the possession of any settler on the public domain, the party committing such injury or damage shall be liable to the party injured for such injury or damage.
Página 12 - ... all surplus water over and above such actual appropriation and use, together with the water of all lakes, rivers, and other sources of water supply upon the public lands, and not navigable, shall remain and be held free for the appropriation and use of the public for irrigation, mining, and manufacturing purposes, subject to existing rights.
Página 62 - Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada, in and for the county of Mineral. On December 7, 1955, service was made on the Attorney General of the United States.