43 U.S.C. § 1501 : US Code - Section 1501: Congressional declaration of purpose and policy

Search 43 U.S.C. § 1501 : US Code - Section 1501: Congressional declaration of purpose and policy

(a) It is the object of this chapter to provide a program for the
further comprehensive development of the water resources of the
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, and
for municipal, industrial, and other beneficial purposes; improving
water quality; providing for basic public outdoor recreation
facilities; improving conditions for fish and wildlife, and the
generation and sale of electrical power as an incident of the
foregoing purposes.
(b) It is the policy of the Congress that the Secretary of the
Interior (hereinafter referred to the "Secretary") shall continue
to develop, after consultation with affected States and appropriate
Federal agencies, a regional water plan, consistent with the
provisions of this chapter and with future authorizations, to serve
as the framework under which projects in the Colorado River Basin
may be coordinated and constructed with proper timing to the end
that an adequate supply of water may be made available for such
projects, whether heretofore, herein, or hereafter authorized.