Volume 68 · 486
Public Law 83–503
To provide for construction by the Secretary of the Interior of the Glendo unit, Wyoming, Missouri River Basin project.
Approved July 16, 1954
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
To provide for construction by the Secretary of the Interior of the Glendo unit, Wyoming, Missouri River Basin project.
Whereas construction by the Secretary of the Interior of a dam and reservoir at the Glendo site on the North Platte River in Wyoming was authorized by section 9, subsection (c) of the Act of December
22, 1944 (58 Stat. 641,653); and
Whereas the Interior Department Appropriation Acts for 1954 and several previous years have provided that “in order to promote agreement among the States or Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado, and to avoid any possible alteration of existing vested water rights, no part of this or of any prior appropriation shall be used for construction or for further commitment for construction of the Glendo unit or any feature thereof, until a definite plan report thereon has been completed, reviewed by the States of Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado, and approved by Congress”; and
Whereas a definite plan report was completed by the Bureau of Reclamation in December 1952, reviewed by the States aforesaid, and approved by Wyoming on March 5, 1953, by Colorado on March 31, 1953, and by Nebraska on May 19, 1953; thus substantially complying
with the provision of section 1 of the Flood Control Act of 1944; and
Whereas the said definite plan report was approved by the Secretary of the Interior on February 19, 1954, and transmitted to the Congress by him on April 2, 1954; and
Whereas the Secretary of the Interior has found the Glendo unit to be economically and financially feasible and has recommended its early construction; and
Whereas, as appears in the stipulation signed on behalf of the States of Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado and of the United States on January 14, 1953, the prospect of construction of the Glendo unit as now proposed played an important part in the negotiations of said parties looking toward an amicable modification of the decree of the United States Supreme Court entered in the case of Nebraska versus Wyoming (325 U. S. 665); and
Whereas the United States Supreme Court has approved said stipulation and modified its decree in accordance therewith (345 U. S. 981): Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the definite plan report on the Glendo unit, Missouri River Basin project, approved by the Secretary of the Interior on February 19, 1954, is hereby approved by the Congress, and the Secretary is authorized to construct and operate said unit in accordance with said report and with the modified decree of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Nebraska versus Wyoming (345 U. S. 981) and, through its physical and financial coordination and integration with the other Federal works constructed or authorized to be constructed under the comprehensive plans approved by section 9 of the Act of December 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 641,
653), as amended and supplemented, with the financial objective of returning its reimbursable costs during a fifty-year payment period.
Sec. 2.
With respect to the Glendo unit, the provisions of section 1
(c) of the Flood Control Act of 1944 are hereby waived.
Approved July 16, 1954.