Title 43, Public LandsRelease 119-102
§1525 Cost of Main Stream Water of Colorado River
Title 43 › CHAPTER 32 — COLORADO RIVER BASIN PROJECT › SUBCHAPTER III — AUTHORIZED UNITS; PROTECTION OF EXISTING USES › § 1525
Summary
If the Secretary, under article II(b)(1) of the Arizona v. California decree (376 U.S. 340), increases Colorado River flow so annual uses of 2,800,000 acre-feet for Arizona, 4,400,000 for California, and 300,000 for Nevada are met, the Secretary must provide it to users there at the same costs and terms as if it were available, if costs can be made comparable by nonrepayable allocations and help from the development fund (section 1543).
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Title 43, §1525
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To the extent that the flow of the main stream of the Colorado River is augmented in order to make sufficient water available for release, as determined by the Secretary pursuant to article II(b)(1) of the decree of the Supreme Court of the United States in Arizona against California (376 U.S. 340), to satisfy annual consumptive use of two million eight hundred thousand acre-feet in Arizona, four million four hundred thousand acre-feet in California, and three hundred thousand acre-feet in Nevada, respectively, the Secretary shall make such water available to users of main stream water in those States at the same costs (to the extent that such costs can be made comparable through the nonreimbursable allocation to the replenishment of the deficiencies occasioned by satisfaction of the Mexican Treaty burden as herein provided and financial assistance from the development fund established by section 1543 of this title) and on the same terms as would be applicable if main stream water were available for release in the quantities required to supply such consumptive use.
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43 U.S.C. § 1525
Title 43, Public Lands
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102