Title 43 — Public LandsRelease 119-73
§620b Congressional intent; additional undesignated projects not precluded; construction not authorized within national park or monument
Title 43 › Chapter CHAPTER 12B— - COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT › § 620b
Summary
Approving only the projects named earlier must not stop states in the Upper Colorado River Basin from using the water allotted to them by the Colorado River Compact and the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact. Congress also allows itself to consider and approve more projects later if the compacts’ water allocations call for them. Congress requires that no dam or reservoir built under this law be inside any national park or national monument.
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Title 43, §620b
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It is not the intention of Congress, in authorizing only those projects designated in section 620 of this title, and in authorizing priority in planning only those additional projects designated in section 620a of this title, to limit, restrict, or otherwise interfere with such comprehensive development as will provide for the consumptive use by States of the Upper Colorado River Basin of waters, the use of which is apportioned to the Upper Colorado River Basin by the Colorado River Compact and to each State thereof by the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact, nor to preclude consideration and authorization by the Congress of additional projects under the allocations in the compacts as additional needs are indicated. It is the intention of Congress that no dam or reservoir constructed under the authorization of this chapter shall be within any national park or monument.
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43 U.S.C. § 620b
Title 43 — Public Lands
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73