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PUBLIC LAW 503-JULY 16, 1954 Public Law 503
[68 S T A T. C HAPTER 532
,,,«,„-. JOINT RESOLUTION July 16, 1954 [S.J.Res. 165] To provide for construction by the Secretary of the Interior of the Glendo unit, Wyoming, Missouri River Basin project. Whereas construction by the Secretary of the Interior of a dam and reservoir at the Glendo site on the North Platte River in Wyoming was authorized by section 9, subsection (c) of the Act of December 58 Stat. 891. 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 641,653); and Whereas the Interior Department Appropriation Acts for 1954 and several previous years have provided that "in order to promote agreement among the States of Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado, and to avoid any possible alteration of existing vested water rights, no part of this or of any prior appropriation shall be used for construction or for further commitment for construction of the Glendo unit or any feature thereof, until a definite plan report thereon has been completed, reviewed by the States of Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado, and approved by Congress"; and Whereas a definite plan report was completed by the Bureau of Reclamation in December 1952, reviewed by the States aforesaid, and approved by Wyoming on March 5, 1953, by Colorado on March 31, 1953, and by Nebraska on May 19, 1953; thus substantially complying 33 USC 7oi-*i ^^^^^ ^^^ provision of section 1 of the Flood Control Act of 1944; and Whereas the said definite plan report was approved by the Secretary of the Interior on February 19, 1954, and transmitted to the Congress by him on April 2, 1954; and Whereas the Secretary of the Interior has found the Glendo unit to be economically and financially feasible and has recommended its early construction; and Whereas, as appears in the stipulation signed on behalf of the States of Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado and of the United States on January 14, 1953, the prospect of construction of the Glendo unit as now proposed played an important part in the negotiations of said parties looking toward an amicable modification of the decree of the United States Supreme Court entered in the case of Nebraska versus Wyoming (325 U. S. 665); and Whereas the United States Supreme Court has approved said stipulation and modified its decree in accordance therewith (345 U. S. 981): Now, therefore, be it Giendounit.wyo, ResoVved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United C o n g r e s s ional States of America in Congress assembled, That the definite plan report approv on the Glendo unit, Missouri River Basin project, approved by the Secretary of the Interior on February 19, 1954, is hereby approved by the Congress, and the Secretary is authorized to construct and operate said unit in accordance with said report and with the modified decree of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Nebraska versus Wyoming (345 U. S. 981) and, through its physical and financial coordination and integration with the other Federal works constructed or authorized to be constructed under the comprehensive plans approved by section 9 of the Act of December 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 641, 58 Stat. 891. 653), as amended and supplemented, with the financial objective of returning its reimbursable costs during a fifty-year payment period. SEC. 2. With respect to the Glendo unit, the provisions of section 1 33 USC 701-1. (c) of the Flood Control Act of 1944 are hereby waived. Approved July 16, 1954.
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