43 U.S.C. § 598 — Salt River project, Arizona; sale of water power
submitted 104 years ago by ch. 323 to r/title-43-PUBLIC-LANDS · 205 words · no verdicts yet
This section lets the Secretary sell surplus power from the Salt River project under contracts lasting up to 50 years, with priority for municipal uses and several safeguards.
When power development is needed to irrigate Salt River project lands, or when the project offers an opportunity to develop power, the Secretary of the Interior may contract for up to 50 years to sell surplus power. Municipal uses receive preference. Money from sales must be credited to the project and used as the contract with the Salt River Valley Water Users’ Association provides. A sale may not reduce the project’s effectiveness, and it requires approval from the legally organized water-users’ association or irrigation district that agreed to repay project costs. The contract may provide for adjusting the power charge at the end of 5-, 10-, or 20-year periods after the contract begins.
Whenever a development of power is necessary for the irrigation of lands under the Salt River reclamation project, Arizona, or an opportunity is afforded for the development of power under said project, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, giving preference to municipal purposes, to enter into contracts for a period not exceeding fifty years for the sale of any surplus power so developed, and the money derived from such sales shall be placed to the credit of said project for disposal as provided in the contract between the United States of America and the Salt River Valley Water Users’ Association, approved September 6, 1917: Provided, That no contract shall be made for the sale of such surplus power which will impair the efficiency of said project: Provided, however, That no such contract shall be made without the approval of the legally organized water-users’ association or irrigation district which has contracted with the United States to repay the cost of said project: Provided further, That the charge for power may be readjusted at the end of five-, ten-, or twenty-year periods after the beginning of any contract for the sale of power in a manner to be described in the contract.
Source credit: (Sept. 18, 1922, ch. 323, 42 Stat. 847.)
- 1922Enacted · Act of Sept. 18, 1922, ch. 323 · 42 Stat. 847
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 323 on 1922-09-18.
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