PUBLIC LAW 94-156—DEC. 16, 1975
89 STAT. 825
Public Law 94-156 94th Congress An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to engage in feasibility investigations of certain potential water resource developments.
Dec. 16, 1975 [H.R. 6669]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Water resources, of the Interior is hereby authorized to engage in feasibility studies of potential development. the following potential water resource developments: (a) Power intertie potentials for the purpose of improving electric Feasibility studies. power transmission systems aifecting the seventeen Western States. (b) Boulder Canyon project modification, located at the existing Hoover Dam, at the Arizona-Xevada boundary on the Colorado River, in Mohave County, Arizona, and Clark County, Nevada. (c) Minidoka project, Minidoka powerplant rehabilitation and enlargement, located at the existing Minidoka Dam, powerplant, and reservoir on the Snake River in Minidoka, Cassia, and Blaine Counties, Idaho. (d) the Mora River Basin in Mora County, NeAV Mexico. (e) Yakima project, Yakima Indian Reservation near the Yakima River in Yakima and Klickitat Counties, Washington. (f) Columbia Northside project, White Salmon Division, located along the White Salmon River in Klickitat and Skamania Counties, Washington. (g) Seward project, Logan and Oklahoma Counties, Oklahoma. (h) Frenchman-Cambridge division, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin program, Chase, Hitchcock, Hayes, Frontier, Red Willow, Furnas, and Harlan Counties, Nebraska. (i) Upper Canadian River Basin, Colfax County, New Mexico. (j) Versippi Unit, Heart Division, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin programs, Stark and Dunn Counties, North Dakota. (k) Muddy Ridge area, Riverton unit, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin program, Fremont County, Wyoming. (1) A comprehensive resource analysis adequate to determine the feasibility of a geothermal energy utility system for the city of Susanville, California, and to initiate reconnaissance level studies of similar undertakings which may be requested by public entities in the future. Approved December 16, 1975.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORT No. 94-482 (Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs). SENATE REPORT No. 94-497 (Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 121 (1975): Oct. 6, considered and passed House. Dec. 1, considered and passed Senate, amended. Dec. 3, House concurred in Senate amendment.
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