§ 5202. Purchase of restricted Indian lands; preference to Secretary of the Interior; waiver of preference

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1936

   Pub. L. 74–831 § 2 · 49 Stat. 1028

   Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 5202

   June 26, 1936, ch. 831, § 2, 49 Stat. 1967

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   June 26, 1936, ch. 831, § 2, 49 Stat. 1967

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 2. That for the purpose of controlling floods, improving Projects adopted for controlling floods, etc. navigation, regulating the flow of the streams of the United States, providing for storage and for the delivery of the stored waters thereof, for the reclamation of public lands and Indian reservations,and other beneficial uses, and for the generation of electric energy as a means of financially aiding and assisting such undertakings, the projects known as “Parker Dam” on the Colorado River and “Grand Coulee Dam” on the Columbia River, are hereby authorized and adopted, and all contracts and agreements which have been executed in connection therewith are hereby validated and ratified, and the President, acting through such agents as he may designate, Construction, etc., authorized. Post, p. 1784. is hereby authorized to construct, operate, and maintain dams, structures, canals, and incidental works necessary to such projects, and in connection therewith to make and enter into any and all necessary contracts including contracts amendatory of or supplemental. to those hereby validated and ratified. The construction by the Secretary of the Interior of a dam in and across the Colorado River at or near Head Gate Rock, Arizona, and structures, canals, and incidental works necessary in connection therewith is hereby authorized, and none of the waters, conserved, used, or appropriated under the works hereby authorized shall be charged against the waters allocated to the upper basin by the Colorado River compact, nor shall any priority be established against such upper basin by reason of such conservation, use, or appropriation; nor shall said dam, structures, canals, and works, or any of them, be used as the basis of making any such charge, or establishing any such priority or right, and all contracts between the United States and the users of said water from or by means of said instrumentalities shall provide against the making of any such charge or claim or the establishment of any priority right or claim to any part or share of the water of the Colorado River allocated to the Upper Basin by the Colorado River compact, and all use of said instrumentalities shall be in compliance with the conditions and provisions of said Colorado River compact and the Boulder Canyon Project Act.

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