§1525 Cost of main stream water of Colorado River

Summary

If extra water is added to the Colorado River's main channel so there is enough to meet the yearly uses of 2,800,000 acre-feet for Arizona, 4,400,000 acre-feet for California, and 300,000 acre-feet for Nevada, as the Secretary decides under Article II(b)(1) of the Supreme Court decree in Arizona v. California (376 U.S. 340), the Secretary must make that water available to main‑stream users in those states at the same costs and on the same terms as if the river normally supplied those amounts. The costs may be made comparable by using nonreimbursable allocations to refill shortages from meeting the Mexican Treaty and by financial help from the development fund in section 1543.