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Title 43 — Public LandsRelease 119-73

§618i Effective date

Title 43 › Chapter CHAPTER 12A— - BOULDER CANYON PROJECT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - BOULDER CANYON PROJECT ADJUSTMENT ACT › § 618i

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The subchapter can be used right away to prepare charges and to make contracts, but those charges and contracts do not become valid until the whole subchapter is in effect for all purposes. The subchapter will become fully effective only when the Secretary finds two things: that the current lease of the Hoover Power Plant has been dealt with and it can be run under section 618h, and that the allottees who, under contracts in effect on July 19, 1940, were required to pay at least 90% of the firm energy have signed contracts agreeing to the operation and any other terms the Secretary requires. The 90% is measured at the end of the absorption periods from regulations in effect on July 19, 1940. If those contracts are not made before June 1, 1941, the subchapter stops and has no force.

Full Legal Text

Title 43, §618i

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This subchapter shall be effective immediately for the purpose of the promulgation of charges, or the basis of computation thereof, and the execution of contracts authorized by the terms of this subchapter, but neither such charges, nor the basis of computation thereof, nor any such contract, shall be effective unless and until this subchapter shall be effective for all purposes. This subchapter shall take effect for all purposes when, but not before, the Secretary shall have found that provision has been made for the termination of the existing lease of the Hoover Power Plant and for the operation thereof as authorized by section 618h of this title, and that allottees obligated under contracts in force on July 19, 1940 to pay for at least 90 per centum of the firm energy shall have entered into contracts (1) consenting to such operation, and (2) containing such other provisions as the Secretary may deem necessary or proper for carrying out the purposes of this subchapter. For purposes of this section such 90 per centum shall be computed as of the end of the absorption periods provided for in regulations heretofore promulgated by the Secretary and in effect on July 19, 1940. If contracts in accordance with the requirements of this section shall not have been entered into prior to June 1, 1941, this subchapter shall cease to be operative and shall be of no further force or effect.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

“Hoover Power Plant” substituted in text for “Boulder Power Plant” on authority of act Apr. 30, 1947, which changed name of Boulder Dam to Hoover Dam.

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Citation

43 U.S.C. § 618i

Title 43 — Public Lands

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73