Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act: Hearings Before the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, United States Senate, Seventy-sixth Congress, Third Session, on S. 4039, a Bill Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to Promulgate and to Put Into Effect Charges for Electrical Energy Generated at Boulder Dam, Providing for the Application of Revenues from Said Project, Authorizing the Operation of the Boulder Power Plant by the United States Or Directly Through Agents, and for Other Purposes. May 28, 29, 31, and June 3, 1940

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Page 17 - Administrator to be issued hereunder and for such purpose the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to use as a public debt transaction the proceeds from the sale of any securities issued under the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended...
Page 77 - I went to work in the testing department of the Bureau of Power and Light of the city of Los Angeles and I worked there for 7^ years.
Page 17 - All redemptions, purchases, and sales by the Secretary of the Treasury of such notes or other obligations shall be treated as public debt transactions of the United States.
Page 11 - Nothing herein shall be construed as interfering with such rights as the States now have, either to the waters within their borders or to adopt such policies and enact such laws as they may deem necessary with respect to the appropriation, control, and use of waters within their borders, except as modified by the Colorado River compact or other interstate agreement.
Page 18 - . . . for the purpose of controlling the floods, improving navigation and regulating the flow of the Colorado River, providing for storage and for the delivery of the stored waters thereof for reclamation of public lands and other beneficial uses exclusively within the United States, and for the generation of electrical energy as a means of making the project herein authorized a self-supporting and financially solvent undertaking...
Page 19 - ... connection with the works or structures provided for in this Act, and no water rights shall be claimed or initiated hereunder, and no steps shall be taken by the United States or by others to initiate or perfect any claims to the use of water pertinent to such works or structures...
Page 23 - An Act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in certain states and territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands...
Page 17 - ... in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and thereupon to the extent of the amount so paid the Secretary of the Treasury shall...
Page 10 - Under the provisions of the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act, the city of Los Angeles, and the Southern California Edison Co., as agents for the United States, operate and maintain certain powerplant machinery and pertinent facilities.
Page 13 - After the repayments to the United States of all money advanced with interest, charges shall be on such basis and the revenues derived therefrom shall be kept in a separate fund to be expended within the Colorado River Basin as may hereafter be prescribed by the Congress.

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