Title 43 — Public Lands
Chapter 32 — Colorado River Basin Project
§ 1553. Upper Colorado River Basin; rights to consumptive uses not to be reduced or prejudiced; duties and powers of Commission not impaired
Statutory text
Rights of the upper basin to the consumptive use of water available to that basin from the Colorado River system under the Colorado River Compact shall not be reduced or prejudiced by any use of such water in the lower basin.
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed so as to impair, conflict with, or otherwise change the duties and powers of the Upper Colorado River Commission.
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.
Pub. L. 90–537 title VI § 603 · 82 Stat. 885
Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 1553
(Pub. L. 90–537, title VI, § 603, Sept. 30, 1968, 82 Stat. 901.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 90–537, title VI, § 603, Sept. 30, 1968, 82 Stat. 901.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 603. (a) Rights of the upper basin to the consumptive use of water available to that basin from the Colorado River system under the Colorado River Compact shall not be reduced or prejudiced by any use of such water in the lower basin. (b) Nothing in this Act shall be construed so as to impair, conflict with, or otherwise change the duties and powers of the Upper Colorado River Commission.
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