§ 1501. — Congressional declaration of purpose and policy.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC1501]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 32--COLORADO RIVER BASIN PROJECT
SUBCHAPTER I--OBJECTIVES
Sec. 1501. Congressional declaration of purpose and policy
(a) It is the object of this chapter to provide a program for the
further comprehensive development of the water resources of the Colorado
River Basin and for the provision of additional and adequate water
supplies for use in the upper as well as in the lower Colorado River
Basin. This program is declared to be for the purposes, among others, of
regulating the flow of the Colorado River; controlling floods; improving
navigation; providing for the storage and delivery of the waters of the
Colorado River for reclamation of lands, including supplemental water
supplies, and for municipal, industrial, and other beneficial purposes;
improving water quality; providing for basic public outdoor recreation
facilities; improving conditions for fish and wildlife, and the
generation and sale of electrical power as an incident of the foregoing
purposes.
(b) It is the policy of the Congress that the Secretary of the
Interior (hereinafter referred to the ``Secretary'') shall continue to
develop, after consultation with affected States and appropriate Federal
agencies, a regional water plan, consistent with the provisions of this
chapter and with future authorizations, to serve as the framework under
which projects in the Colorado River Basin may be coordinated and
constructed with proper timing to the end that an adequate supply of
water may be made available for such projects, whether heretofore,
herein, or hereafter authorized.
(Pub. L. 90-537, title I, Sec. 102, Sept. 30, 1968, 82 Stat. 886.)
References in Text
This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original ``this Act'',
meaning Pub. L. 90-537, Sept. 30, 1968, 82 Stat. 885, as amended, known
as the Colorado River Basin Project Act, which enacted this chapter and
sections 616aa-1, 620a-1, 620a-2, 620c-1, and 620d-1 of this title,
amended sections 616hh, 620, and 620a of this title, and enacted
provisions set out as notes under sections 620, 620k, and 1501 of this
title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short
Title note set out below and Tables.
Short Title
Section 101 of Pub. L. 90-537 provided: ``That this Act [enacting
this chapter and sections 616aa-1, 620a-1, 620a-2, 620c-1, and 620d-1 of
this title, amending sections 616hh, 620, and 620a of this title, and
enacting provisions set out as notes under sections 620, 620k, and 1501
of this title] may be cited as the `Colorado River Basin Project Act'.''
