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SEVENTIETH CONGRESS . SESS. II . Ca. 42. 1928 . December 10, 1931, his findings, conclusions, and recommendations regarding such project . "Polli cassubdivi- SEC . 12 . "Pol itic al su bdivi sion " or "poli tical sub divis ions" as Sion .°

used in this Act shall be understood to include any State, irrigation or other district, municipality, or other governmental organization . "Reclamation law." " Reclamation law " as used in this Act shall be understood to mean that certain Act of the Congress of the United States approved June 17, 1902, entitled "An Act appropriating the receipts from the sale and dispo sal of publi c land in ce rtain States and Te rritor ies to the con struct ion of irrig ation works for th e recla mation of ar id lan ds," and the Acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto . " Maintenance " as used herein shall be deemed to include in each instance provision for keeping the works in good operating condition . "The Federal Water Power Act," as used in this Act, shall be understood to mean that certain Act of Congress of the United States approved June 10, 1920, entitled "An Act to create a Federal Power Commission ; to provide for the improvement of navigation ; the development of water power ; the use of the public lands in rela- tion thereto ; and to repeal section 18 of the River and Harbor Appro- priation Act, approved August 8, 1917, and for other purposes," and the Acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto . " Domestic " whenever employed in this Act shall include water uses defined as "domestic " in said Colorado River compact . Sac. 13. (a) The Colorado River compact signed at Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 24, 1922, pursuant to Act of Co ngress approved August 19, 1921, entitled "An Act to permit a compact or agreement between the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming respecting the disposi- tion and apportionment of the waters of the Colorado River, and for other purposes," is hereby approved by the Congress of the United States, and the provisions of the first paragraph of article 11 of the said Colorado River compact, making said compact binding and obligatory when it shall have been approved by the legislature of each of the signatory States, are hereby waived, and this approval shall become effective when the State of California and at least five of the other States mentioned, shall have approved or may hereafter approve said compact as aforesaid and shall consent to such waiver, as herein provided . (b) The rights of the United States in or to waters of the Colo- rado River and its tributaries howsoever claimed or acquired, as well as the rights of those claiming under the United States, shall be subject to and controlled by said Colorado River compact . (c) Also all patents, grants, contracts, concessions, leases, permits, licenses, rights of way, or other privileges from the United States or under its authority, necessary or convenient for the use of waters of the Colorado River or its tributaries, or for the generation or transmission of electrical energy generated by means of the waters of said river or its tributaries, whether under this Act, the Federal Water Power Act, or otherwise, shall be upon the express condition and with the express covenant that the rights of the recipients or holders thereof to waters of the river or its tributaries, for the use of which the same are necessary, convenient, or incidental, and the use of the same shall likewise be subject to and controlled by said Colorado River compact . (d) The conditions and covenants referred to herein shall be deemed to run with the land and the right, interest, or privilege therein and water right, and shall attach as a matter of law, whether set o ut or referr ed to in the instr ument e videnc ing an y such paten t, grant, contract, concession, lease, permit, license, right of way, or Vol. 32, p. 388. "Ma inten ance ." "Federal Water Power Act ." Vol.41,p.1063. "Do mesti c. " Colorado River com- pact . Authority for. Vol.42,p.171 . Approval of, by Con- gress. Waiver of approval by each of s igna tory States . Acceptan ce of ap- proval b y California and five oth er States . All rights as to Colo- rado River waters, sub- ject to the compact . All patents, etc ., for use of waters of Colo- rado River and tribu- taries subject to Colo- rado River compact . Con di tio ns to run wi th the land and rights attach as a mat- ter of law to patents, etc .