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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 12A — Boulder Canyon Project

§ 617n. Projects for irrigation, generation of electric power, and other purposes; investigations and reports

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to make investigation and public reports of the feasibility of projects for irrigation, generation of electric power, and other purposes in the States of Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming for the purpose of making such information available to said States and to the Congress and of formulating a comprehensive scheme of control and the improvement and utilization of the water of the Colorado River and its tributaries. The sum of $250,000 is authorized to be appropriated from said Colorado River Dam fund, created by section 617a of this title, for such purposes.

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. Pub. L. 70–42 § 15 · 45 Stat. 61

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 617n

    (Dec. 21, 1928, ch. 42, § 15, 45 Stat. 1065.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Dec. 21, 1928, ch. 42, § 15, 45 Stat. 1065.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Credits

(Dec. 21, 1928, ch. 42, § 15, 45 Stat. 1065.)

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