Missouri River Basin Industrial Water Marketing: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Energy Research and Water Resources of ..., 94-1 .... |
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acre-feet acre-feet of water acre-foot acres agreement agriculture allocation amount of water application Army authority Basin Electric Boysen Reservoir Bureau of Reclamation Chairman coal Congress Congressional construction Corps of Engineers cost dams Department diversion environmental Federal agencies Federal Government Flood Control Act flow Garrison Governor HORTON Indian Reservation Indian rights Indian tribes Indian water rights industrial purposes industrial water marketing Interior irrigation Lake Oahe main stem reservoirs market water Memorandum of Understanding ment Milk River million acre-feet Missouri Basin Missouri River Basin Missouri River water Montana municipal and industrial Nation navigation Nebraska needs North Northern Great Plains Pick-Sloan pipeline plant prior and paramount proposed question Reclamation Project Research and Water Secretary Senator ABOUREZK Senator METCALF South Dakota Stat statement storage Subcommittee Thank tion Treaty United Upper Missouri River water for industrial Water Resources water rights water supply Winters Doctrine rights Wyoming Yellowstone River Yellowtail
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Page 171 - Indians; their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent; and in their property, rights and liberty they never shall be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars authorized by Congress; but laws founded in justice and humanity shall, from time to time, be made, for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them.
Page 176 - That the people inhabiting said proposed State do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands lying within the boundaries thereof, and to all lands lying within said limits owned or held by any Indian or Indian tribes; and that until the title thereto shall have been extinguished by the United States, the same shall be and remain subject to the disposition of the United States...
Page 84 - The Congress authorizes and directs that, to the fullest extent possible: (1) the policies, regulations, and public laws of the United States shall be interpreted and administered in accordance with the policies set forth in this Act...
Page 87 - To declare a national policy which will encourage productive and enjoyable harmony between man and his environment; to promote efforts which will prevent or eliminate damage to the environment and biosphere and stimulate the health and welfare of man; to enrich the understanding of the ecological systems and natural resources important to the Nation ; and to establish a Council on Environmental Quality.
Page 175 - Nebraska, or to affect the authority of the government of the United States to make any regulations respecting such Indians, their lands, property, or other rights, by treaty, law, or otherwise, which it would have been competent to the government to make if this act had never passed.
Page 162 - The High Contracting Parties agree that the St. Mary and Milk Rivers and their tributaries (in the State of Montana and the Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan) are to be treated as one stream for the purposes of irrigation and power, and the waters thereof shall be...
Page 90 - The general comprehensive plan for flood control and other purposes in the Missouri River Basin approved by the Act of June 28, 1938...
Page 183 - First, that, in the absence of specific authority from Congress, a State cannot, by its legislation, destroy the right of the United States, as the owner of lands bordering on a stream, to the continued flow of its waters, so far, at least, as may be necessary for the beneficial uses of the government property...
Page 84 - Code, and shall accompany the proposal through the existing agency review processes; (D) study, develop, and describe appropriate alternatives to recommended courses of action in any proposal which involves unresolved conflicts concerning alternative uses of available resources...
Page 90 - War is authorized to make contracts with States, municipalities, private concerns, or individuals, at such prices and on such terms as he may deem reasonable, for domestic and industrial uses for surplus water that may be available at any reservoir under the control of the War Department: Provided, That no contracts for such water shall adversely affect then existing lawful uses of such water.