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(Modified S. 75)
A BILL
To authorize the construction, operation, and maintenance of the Lower Colorado River Basin Project, and for other purposes
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
TITLE I--LOWER COLORADO RIVER BASIN PROJECT: OBJECTIVES
Sec. 101. That this Act may be cited as the "Lower Colorado River Basin Project Act."
"Sec. 102. It is the object of this Act to provide a program for the further comprehensive development of the water resources of the Lower Colorado River Basin and for the provision of additional and adequate water supplies for use in the Upper as well as in the Lower Colorado River Basin. This program is declared to be for the purposes, among others, of regulating the flow of the Colorado River, controlling floods, improving navigation, providing for the storage and delivery of the waters of the Colorado River for reclamation of lands, including supplemental water supplies, for municipal, industrial and other beneficial purposes, providing for adequate water
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