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Title 43 — Public LandsRelease 119-73not60

§618i Effective Date

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

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Officials may immediately set charges and make contracts under this law, but those charges and contracts will not take effect until the whole law is in force. The law becomes fully in force only after the Secretary finds two things: that the current lease of the Hoover Power Plant will be ended and the plant will be run as allowed by section 618h, and that people with contracts in effect on July 19, 1940 who must pay at least 90 percent of the firm energy have signed contracts agreeing to that operation and any other terms the Secretary requires. The 90 percent is computed at the end of the absorption periods in the Secretary’s rules that were in effect on July 19, 1940. If those contracts are not signed before June 1, 1941, the law ends 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

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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 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60