Boulder Canyon Project Act (1928)
Citation: An Act to provide for the construction of works for the protection and development of the Colorado River Basin, for the approval of the Colorado River compact, and for other purposes, December 21, 1928; Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress, 1789-1996; General Records of the United States Government; Record Group 11, National Archives
引文：1928 年 12 月 21 日颁布的一项法案，旨在保护和开发科罗拉多河流域、批准科罗拉多河契约以及其他目的的工程建设；国会登记法案和决议，1789-1996；美国政府总记录；国家档案馆第 11 号记录组
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This act authorized the construction of the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River and the All-American Canal to the Imperial Valley in California.
该法案授权在科罗拉多河上修建胡佛水坝以及通往加利福尼亚州帝王谷的全美运河。
Long before there was a Boulder Canyon Act or a Hoover Dam, the Colorado River flowed uninterrupted along its 1,450-mile course from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of California.
早在博尔德峡谷法案或胡佛水坝出台之前，科罗拉多河就沿着 1,450 英里的河道不间断地从落基山脉流向加利福尼亚湾。
Winding through California's richly fertile Imperial Valley, the Colorado River was unpredictable--flooding in the spring, drying up in the summer.
科罗拉多河蜿蜒穿过加利福尼亚州肥沃的帝王河谷，变化莫测——春天泛滥，夏天干涸。
The destruction caused when the river flooded in the spring had devastated the farmlands near its banks.
春天河水泛滥造成的破坏摧毁了河岸附近的农田。
By the 1920s, the damage attracted so much attention that it had become necessary and politically expedient to try to control the path of the lower Colorado.
到了 1920 年代，这场破坏引起了如此多的关注，以至于试图控制科罗拉多河下游的路径变得必要且在政治上是权宜之计。
The only way to harness this indispensable resource was to build a dam, which in turn would provide badly needed electricity to the western states.
利用这一不可或缺的资源的唯一方法是建造一座大坝，从而为西部各州提供急需的电力。
The Boulder Canyon Project Act of 1928 authorized construction of a dam in Boulder, or Black, Canyon, construction of the All-American Canal to connect the Imperial and Coachella Valleys with the Colorado River, and divided the lower basin waters among the lower basin states.
1928 年的博尔德峡谷项目法案授权在博尔德峡谷或布莱克峡谷修建一座水坝，修建全美运河，将帝国河谷和科切拉河谷与科罗拉多河连接起来，并将下游流域水域划分给下游各州。
In addition, the act appropriated $165,000,000 for construction and stated the primary purposes of the project as flood control, improvement of navigation on the Colorado River, storage and delivery of water for reclamation and other beneficial uses, and generation of power.
此外，该法案还拨款 1.65 亿美元用于建设，并规定该项目的主要目的是防洪、改善科罗拉多河的航运、储存和输送水以供填海和其他有益用途以及发电。
The Boulder Canyon Project Act became effective on June 25, 1929, following ratification of the Colorado River Compact by six of the seven states of the Colorado River Basin.
在科罗拉多河流域七个州中的六个州批准《科罗拉多河契约》后，《博尔德峡谷项目法》于 1929 年 6 月 25 日生效。
Before work could start on the project, the Colorado River had to be diverted.
在该项目开始之前，科罗拉多河必须改道。
To accomplish this, four tunnels, each 50 feet in diameter (which today could accommodate a 747 without the wings), were drilled through the solid rock walls of Black Canyon.
为了实现这一目标，在黑峡谷坚固的岩壁上钻了四条隧道，每条隧道的直径为 50 英尺（如今可以容纳一架没有机翼的 747 飞机）。
When the dam was finished, it stood over 700 feet high, was 1,244 feet across at the top, 660 feet thick at the base, 45 feet thick at the top, and weighed 6.6 million tons; had a power generating capacity of 2.8 million kilowatts; and could store up to 2 years' average flow from the Colorado River in Lake Mead.
大坝竣工时，其高度超过 700 英尺，顶部宽 1,244 英尺，底部厚 660 英尺，顶部厚 45 英尺，重 660 万吨；发电能力280万千瓦；并可存储米德湖科罗拉多河长达两年的平均流量。
About 16,000 men and women worked on the project with approximately 3,500 people employed at any one time.
大约 16,000 名男性和女性参与了该项目，同时雇用了大约 3,500 名员工。
It was dangerous work, and the official death toll was 96.
这是一项危险的工作，官方公布的死亡人数为 96 人。
Five thousand men and their families settled in the Nevada desert, most in Boulder City, an efficiently run, well-ordered company town built by the Federal Government.
五千人和他们的家人在内华达沙漠定居，其中大部分住在博尔德市，这是联邦政府建造的一个运行高效、秩序井然的公司城镇。
Others lived in dozens of tent cities and honky-tonk towns that sprang up on the road from the dam to the small town of Las Vegas.
其他人住在从大坝到拉斯维加斯小镇的道路上涌现的数十个帐篷城和小酒馆小镇。
To a country struggling to come out of the Depression, the project was dramatic evidence of what American brains and manpower could accomplish, and it was a symbol of hope for the dispossessed.
对于一个正在努力摆脱大萧条的国家来说，该项目是美国智慧和人力所能实现的伟大成就的有力证明，也是被剥夺者希望的象征。
In 1935 the job was finished.
1935年，这项工作完成了。
No other politician was more responsible for the successful completion of Boulder Dam than Herbert Hoover.
没有哪个政治家比赫伯特·胡佛对博尔德大坝的成功竣工负有更大的责任。
Because of his long involvement in the project, from his days as Secretary of Commerce to his tenure as 31st President, the 80th Congress, in 1947, passed legislation officially designating the dam "Hoover Dam." Hoover had called it "the greatest engineering work of its character ever attempted by the hand of man."
由于他长期参与该项目，从担任商务部长到担任第 31 任总统，第 80 届国会于 1947 年通过立法，正式将大坝指定为“胡佛水坝”。胡佛称其为“人类有史以来最伟大的工程作品”。
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AN ACT To provide for the construction of works for the protection and development of the Colorado River Basin, for the approval of the Colorado River compact, and for other purposes.
法案 为保护和开发科罗拉多河流域的工程建设、科罗拉多河契约的批准以及其他目的做出规定。
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of controlling the floods, improving navigation and regulating the flow of the Colorado River, providing for storage and for the delivery of the stored waters thereof for reclamation of public lands and other beneficial uses exclusively within the United States, and for the generation of electrical energy as a means of making the project herein authorized a self-supporting and financially solvent undertaking, the Secretary of the Interior, subject to the terms of the Colorado River compact hereinafter mentioned, is hereby authorized to construct, operate, and maintain a dam and incidental works in the main stream of the Colorado River at Black Canyon or Boulder Canyon adequate to create a storage reservoir of a capacity of not less than twenty million acre-feet of water and a main canal and appurtenant structures located entirely within the United States connecting the Laguna Dam, or other suitable diversion dam, which the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to construct if deemed necessary or advisable by him upon engineering or economic considerations, with the Imperial and Coachella Valleys in California, the expenditures for said main canal and appurtenant structures to be reimbursable, as provided in the reclamation law, and shall not be paid out of revenues derived from the sale or disposal of water power or electric energy at the dam authorized to be constructed at said Black Canyon or Boulder Canyon, or for water for potable purposes outside of the Imperial and Coachella Valleys: Provided, however, That no charge shall be made for water or for the use, storage, or delivery of water for irrigation or water for potable purposes in the Imperial or Coachella Valleys; also to construct and equip, operate, and maintain at or near said dam, or cause to be constructed, a complete plant and incidental structures suitable for the fullest economic development of electrical energy from the water discharged from said reservoir; and to acquire by proceedings in eminent domain, or otherwise all lands, rights-of-way, and other property necessary for said purposes.
由美利坚合众国参议院和众议院在国会召开的会议颁布，为了控制洪水、改善航运和调节科罗拉多河的流量、提供储存和输送储存的水以用于美国境内的公共土地开垦和其他有益用途，以及为了发电作为使该项目成为自给自足和经济上有偿付能力的手段，内政部长根据科罗拉多河契约的条款授权特此授权在科罗拉多河干流布莱克峡谷或博尔德峡谷建造、运营和维护一座水坝和附属工程，足以建造一个容量不少于两千万英亩英尺的蓄水池，以及完全位于美国境内连接拉古纳水坝或其他合适的导流水坝的主运河和附属结构，内政部长特此授权在他认为必要或出于工程或经济考虑而建议的情况下建造这些水坝，与加利福尼亚州的帝国河谷和科切拉河谷相比，根据填海法的规定，上述主要运河和附属建筑物的支出可以从在授权在上述黑峡谷或博尔德峡谷建造的水坝销售或处置水力或电能所获得的收入中支付，或者从帝国河谷和科切拉河谷以外的饮用水用途中获得的收入中支付：但是，不得对水或使用、储存或运输收取任何费用帝国或科切拉山谷的灌溉用水或饮用水；还可以在所述大坝或其附近建造和装备、操作和维护，或促成建造适合从所述水库排放的水充分经济地开发电能的完整工厂和附属结构；并通过征用权诉讼或其他方式取得上述目的所需的所有土地、通行权和其他财产。
SEC.
美国证券交易委员会。
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(a) There is hereby established a special fund, to be known as the “Colorado River Dam fund” (hereinafter referred to as the “fund”), and to be available, as hereafter provided, only for carrying out the provisions of this Act.
(a) 特此设立一项特别基金，称为“科罗拉多河大坝基金”（以下简称“基金”），并按照下文规定，仅用于执行本法的规定。
All revenues received in carrying out the provisions of this Act shall be paid into and expenditures shall be made out of the fund, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.
执行本法规定时收到的所有收入均应在内政部长的指导下缴入该基金，支出应从该基金中支出。
(b) The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to advance to the fund, from time to time and within the appropriations therefor, such amounts as the Secretary of the Interior deems necessary for carrying out the provisions of this Act, except that the aggregate amount of such advances shall not exceed the sum of $165,000,000.
(b) 财政部长有权在拨款范围内不时向基金预付内政部长认为执行本法规定所需的金额，但预付款总额不得超过 165,000,000 美元。
Of this amount the sum of $25,000,000 shall be allocated to flood control and shall be repaid to the United States out of 62½ per centum of revenues, if any, in excess of the amount necessary to meet periodical payments during the period of amortization, as provided in section 4 of this Act.
其中 25,000,000 美元应分配用于防洪，并应从收入的 62.5%（如有）偿还美国，超出本法第 4 条规定的摊销期内定期付款所需的金额。
If said sum of $25,000,000 is not repaid in full during the period of amortization, then 62½ per centum of all net revenues shall be applied to payment of the remainder.
如果在摊销期间未全额偿还上述 25,000,000 美元，则应将所有净收入的 62.5% 用于支付剩余部分。
Interest at the rate of 4 per centum per annum accruing during the year upon the amounts so advanced and remaining unpaid shall be paid annually out of the fund, except as herein otherwise provided.
除非本文另有规定，每年应从基金中支付预付金额和未付金额的利息，利息为每年 4%。
(c) Moneys in the fund advanced under subdivision (b) shall be available only for expenditures for construction and the payment of interest, during construction, upon the amounts so advanced.
(c) 根据第 (b) 项预付的基金中的款项仅可用于建设支出以及在建设期间根据预付金额支付利息。
No expenditures out of the fund shall be made for operation and maintenance except from appropriations therefor.
除拨款外，基金不得用于运行维护支出。
(d) The Secretary of the Treasury shall charge the fund as of June 30 in each year with such amount as may be necessary for the payment of interest on advances made under subdivision (b) at the rate of 4 per centum per annum accrued during the year upon the amounts so advanced and remaining unpaid, except that if the fund is insufficient to meet the payment of interest the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion, defer any part of such payment, and the amount so deferred shall bear interest at the rate of 4 per centum per annum until paid.
(d) 财政部长应于每年 6 月 30 日向该基金收取支付第 (b) 款规定的预付款利息所需的金额，按照当年预付金额和未付金额的年利率 4%，除非该基金不足以支付利息，财政部长可酌情推迟支付该付款的任何部分，且所推迟的金额应按以下利率计算利息：每年 4%，直至付款。
(e) The Secretary of the Interior shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury, at the close of each fiscal year, the amount of money in the fund in excess of the amount necessary for construction, operation, and maintenance, and payment of interest.
(e) 内政部长应在每个财政年度结束时向财政部长证明基金中超出建设、运营和维护以及支付利息所需金额的金额。
Upon receipt of each such certificate the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to charge the fund with the amount so certified as repayment of the advances made under subdivision (b), which amount shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts.
收到每份此类证书后，财政部长被授权并指示向该基金收取经证实的金额，作为根据第 (b) 款支付的预付款的偿还额，该金额应记入财政部的杂项收入贷方。
SEC.
美国证券交易委员会。
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There is hereby authorized to be appropriated from time to time, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums of money as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act, not exceeding in the aggregate $165,000,000.
兹授权不时从国库中未拨款的任何资金中拨款，用于实现本法目的所需的资金，总额不超过 165,000,000 美元。
SEC.
美国证券交易委员会。
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(a) This Act shall not take effect and no authority shall be exercised hereunder and no work shall be begun and no moneys expended on or in connection with the works or structures provided for in this Act, and no water rights shall be claimed or initiated hereunder, and no steps shall be taken by the United States or by others to initiate or perfect any claims to the use of water pertinent to such works or structures unless and until (1) the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming shall have ratified the Colorado River compact, mentioned in section 13 hereof, and the President by public proclamation shall have so declared, or (2) if said States fail to ratify the said compact within six months from the date of the passage of this Act then, until six of said States, including the State of California, shall ratify said compact and shall consent to waive the provisions of the first paragraph of Article XI of said compact, which makes the same binding and obligatory only when approved by each of the seven States signatory thereto, and shall have approved said compact without conditions, save that of such six-State approval, and the President by public proclamation shall have so declared, and, further, until the State of California, by act of its legislature, shall agree irrevocably and unconditionally with the United States and for the benefit of the States of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, as an express covenant and in consideration of the passage of this Act, that the aggregate annual consumptive use (diversions less returns to the river) of water of and from the Colorado River for use in the State of California, including all uses under contracts made under the provisions of this Act and all water necessary for the supply of any rights which may now exist, shall not exceed four million four hundred thousand acre-feet of the waters apportioned to the lower basin States by paragraph (a) of Article III of the Colorado River compact, plus not more than one-half of any excess or surplus waters unapportioned by said compact, such uses always to be subject to the terms of said compact.
(a) 本法不生效，不得行使本法规定的任何权力，不得开始任何工程，不得在本法规定的工程或结构上或与之相关的任何资金支出，不得根据本法主张或启动任何水权，美国或其他国家不得采取任何措施启动或完善与此类工程或结构有关的水的使用权，除非和直到 (1) 亚利桑那州、加利福尼亚州、科罗拉多州、内华达州、新墨西哥州、犹他州和怀俄明州应批准本法第 13 节中提到的科罗拉多河契约，并且总统应以公开公告的方式宣布该契约，或 (2) 如果所述各州未能在本法通过之日起六个月内批准所述契约，则直到其中六个州，包括加利福尼亚州，应批准所述契约并同意放弃所述契约第十一条第一款的规定，该规定仅在七个州中的每一个都批准时才具有约束力和强制性该协议的签署国，并应无条件批准该契约，除六国批准外，总统应以公开公告的方式宣布，并且，在加利福尼亚州通过其立法机构的行为，不可撤销地无条件地同意美国并为了亚利桑那州、科罗拉多州、内华达州、新墨西哥州、犹他州和怀俄明州的利益，作为明确的盟约并考虑到本法案的通过，供加利福尼亚州使用的科罗拉多河水的年度消耗量（改道减去返回河水），包括根据本法规定签订的合同的所有使用以及现有可能存在的任何权利的供应所需的所有水量，不得超过科罗拉多河契约第三条（a）款分配给下游流域各州的水域的四百四十万英亩英尺，加上不超过未分配的任何多余或剩余水量的一半通过所述契约，此类使用始终受所述契约的条款约束。
The States of Arizona, California, and Nevada are authorized to enter into an agreement which shall provide (1) that of the 7,500,000 acre-feet annually apportioned to the lower basin by paragraph (a) of Article III of the Colorado River compact, there shall be apportioned to the State of Nevada 300,000 acre-feet and to the State of Arizona 2,800,000 acre-feet for exclusive beneficial consumptive use in perpetuity, and (2) that the State of Arizona may annually use one-half of the excess or surplus waters unapportioned by the Colorado River compact, and (3) that the State of Arizona shall have the exclusive beneficial consumptive use of the Gila River and its tributaries within the boundaries of said State, and (4) that the waters of the Gila River and its tributaries, except return flow after the same enters the Colorado River, shall never be subject to any diminution whatever by any allowance of water which may be made by treaty or otherwise to the United States of Mexico but if, as provided in paragraph (c) of Article III of the Colorado River compact, it shall become necessary to supply water to the United States of Mexico from waters over and above the quantities which are surplus as defined by said compact, then the State of California shall and will mutually agree with the State of Arizona to supply, out of the main stream of the Colorado River, one-half of any deficiency which must be supplied to Mexico by the lower basin, and (5) that the State of California shall and will further mutually agree with the States of Arizona and Nevada that none of said three States shall withhold water and none shall require the delivery of water, which cannot reasonably be applied to domestic and agricultural uses, and (6) that all of the provisions of said tri-State agreement shall be subject in all particulars to the provisions of the Colorado River compact, and (7) said agreement to take effect upon the ratification of the Colorado River compact by Arizona, California, and Nevada.
亚利桑那州、加利福尼亚州和内华达州被授权签订一项协议，规定 (1) 在科罗拉多河契约第三条 (a) 款每年分配给下游流域的 7,500,000 英亩 - 英尺中，应分配给内华达州 300,000 英亩 - 英尺，以及亚利桑那州 2,800,000 英亩 - 英尺作为专属受益人。 (2) 亚利桑那州每年可使用科罗拉多河契约未分配的超额或盈余水量的一半，(3) 亚利桑那州应在该州境内拥有吉拉河及其支流的排他性有益消费用途，(4) 吉拉河及其支流的水，除了进入科罗拉多河后的回流外，永远不得受到任何限制。任何通过条约或其他方式向墨西哥合众国提供的水配额的减少，但如果根据科罗拉多河契约第三条(c)款的规定，有必要从超出该契约规定的剩余水量向墨西哥合众国供水，则加利福尼亚州应且将与亚利桑那州共同同意，从科罗拉多河干流中供应必须由下游流域向墨西哥供应的任何不足的一半， (5) 加利福尼亚州应并将进一步与亚利桑那州和内华达州达成一致，上述三个州均不得扣留水，也不得要求提供不能合理用于家庭和农业用途的水，以及 (6) 上述三州协议的所有条款在所有细节上均应遵守科罗拉多河契约的规定，以及 (7) 该协议将在亚利桑那州、加利福尼亚州和内华达州批准科罗拉多河契约后生效。
(b) Before any money is appropriated for the construction of said dam or power plant, or any construction work done or contracted for, the Secretary of the Interior shall make provision for revenues by contract, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, adequate in his judgment to insure payment of all expenses of operation and maintenance of said works incurred by the United States and the repayment, within fifty years from the date of the completion of said works, of all amounts advanced to the fund under subdivision (b) of section 2 for such works, together with interest thereon made reimbursable under this Act.
(b) 在拨款用于建设上述水坝或发电厂，或完成或承包的任何建筑工程之前，内政部长应根据本法的规定，通过合同规定收入，其判断足以确保支付美国所发生的上述工程的所有运营和维护费用，并在上述工程竣工之日起五十年内偿还根据第 2 条 (b) 款为此类工程预付给基金的所有款项，以及根据本法可偿还其利息。
Before any money is appropriated for the construction of said main canal and appurtenant structures to connect the Laguna Dam with the Imperial and Coachella Valleys in California, or any construction work is done upon said canal or contracted for, the Secretary of the Interior shall make provision for revenues, by contract or otherwise, adequate in his judgment to insure payment of all expenses of construction, operation, and maintenance of said main canal and appurtenant structures in the manner provided in the reclamation law.
在拨款用于建设连接拉古纳水坝与加利福尼亚州帝国河谷和科切拉河谷的上述主要运河和附属结构的任何资金之前，或者在上述运河上进行任何建筑工程或签订合同之前，内政部长应通过合同或其他方式提供其认为足够的收入，以确保按照填海法规定的方式支付上述主要运河和附属结构的建设、运营和维护的所有费用。
If during the period of amortization the Secretary of the Interior shall receive revenues in excess of the amount necessary to meet the periodical payments to the United States as provided in the contract, or contracts, executed under this Act, then, immediately after the settlement of such periodical payments, he shall pay to the State of Arizona 18¾ per centum of such excess revenues and to the State of Nevada 18¾ per centum of such excess revenues.
如果在摊销期内，内政部长收到的收入超过根据本法签订的合同或或多份合同规定向美国定期付款所需的金额，则在结算这些定期付款后，他应立即向亚利桑那州支付该超额收入的 18 3/4 %，并向内华达州支付该超额收入的 18 7/4 %。
SEC.
美国证券交易委员会。
5.
5.
That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, under such general regulations as he may prescribe, to contract for the storage of water in said reservoir and for the delivery thereof at such points on the river and on said canal as may be agreed upon, for irrigation and domestic uses, and generation of electrical energy and delivery at the switchboard to States, municipal corporations, political subdivisions, and private corporations of electrical energy generated at said dam, upon charges that will provide revenue which, in addition to other revenue accruing under the reclamation law and under this Act, will in his judgment cover all expenses of operation and maintenance incurred by the United States on account of works constructed under this Act and the payments to the United States under subdivision (b) of section 4.
特此授权内政部长，根据他可能制定的一般规定，签订合同，在所述水库中储存水，并在河流和运河上商定的地点输送水，用于灌溉和家庭用途，并通过配电盘向各州、市政公司、政治分区和私营公司输送所述水坝产生的电能，收费将提供收入，除了填海中产生的其他收入外法律和根据本法，根据他的判断，将承担美国因根据本法建造的工程而产生的所有运营和维护费用以及根据第 4 条 (b) 款向美国支付的款项。
Contracts respecting water for irrigation and domestic uses shall be for permanent service and shall conform to paragraph (a) of section 4 of this Act.
有关灌溉和生活用水的合同应为永久服务，并应符合本法第 4 条 (a) 款的规定。
No person shall have or be entitled to have the use for any purpose of the water stored as aforesaid except by contract made as herein stated.
任何人不得或有权出于任何目的使用上述储存的水，除非按照本文所述签订合同。
After the repayments to the United States of all money advanced with interest, charges shall be on such basis and the revenues derived therefrom shall be kept in a separate fund to be expended within the Colorado River Basin as may hereafter be prescribed by the Congress.
在向美国偿还所有预付金额及利息后，应以此为基础收取费用，由此产生的收入应保存在一个单独的基金中，以便在国会今后规定的科罗拉多河流域内支出。
General and uniform regulations shall be prescribed by the said Secretary for the awarding of contracts for the sale and delivery of electrical energy, and for renewals under subdivision (b) of this section, and in making such contracts the following shall govern:
上述部长应制定关于授予电能销售和交付合同以及根据本条 (b) 款续签合同的一般和统一规定，并且在签订此类合同时应遵循以下规定：
(a) No contract for electrical energy or for generation of electrical energy shall be of longer duration than fifty years from the date at which such energy is ready for delivery.
(a) 任何电能或发电合同的期限均不得超过自该能源可供交付之日起五十年。
Contracts made pursuant to subdivision (a) of this section shall be made with a view to obtaining reasonable returns and shall contain provisions whereby at the end of fifteen years from-the date of their execution and every ten years thereafter, there shall be readjustment of the contract, upon the demand of either party thereto, either upward or downward as to price, as the Secretary of the Interior may find to be justified by competitive conditions at distributing points or competitive centers and with provisions under which disputes or disagreements as to interpretation or performance of such contract shall be determined either by arbitration or court proceedings, the Secretary of the Interior being authorized to act for the United States in such readjustments or proceedings.
根据本节第(a)款订立的合同应以获取合理回报为目的，并应包含规定，自合同执行之日起十五年结束时，以及此后每十年，应根据任何一方的要求，对合同进行调整，向上或向下调整价格，内政部长可能认为经销点或竞争中心的竞争条件合理，并应根据规定确定对此类合同的解释或履行的争议或分歧。通过仲裁或法庭诉讼，内政部长被授权在此类调整或诉讼中代表美国行事。
(b) The holder of any contract for electrical energy not in default thereunder shall be entitled to a renewal thereof upon such terms and conditions as may be authorized or required under the then existing laws and regulations, unless the property of such holder dependent for its usefulness on a continuation of the contract be purchased or acquired and such holder be compensated for damages to its property, used and useful in the transmission and distribution of such electrical energy and not taken, resulting from the termination of the supply.
(b) 未违约的任何电能合同的持有者应有权根据当时的现行法律和法规授权或要求的条款和条件续订该合同，除非该持有者的财产因其用途依赖于合同的继续进行而被购买或获得，并且该持有者因其在传输和分配此类电能中使用和有用且因供应终止而未被夺取的财产损失应得到赔偿。
(c) Contracts for the use of water and necessary privileges for the generation and distribution of hydroelectric energy or for the sale and delivery of electrical energy shall be made with responsible applicants therefor who will pay the price fixed by the said Secretary with a view to meeting the revenue requirements herein provided for.
(c) 用水合同以及水力发电和分配或电能销售和输送所需的特权应与负责的申请人签订，申请人将支付上述部长确定的价格，以满足本文规定的收入要求。
In case of conflicting applications, if any, such conflicts shall be resolved by the said Secretary, after hearing, with due regard to the public interest, and in conformity with the policy expressed in the Federal Water Power Act as to conflicting applications for permits and licenses, except that preference to applicants for the use of water and appurtenant works and privileges necessary for the generation and distribution of hydroelectric energy, or for delivery at the switchboard of a hydroelectric plant, shall be given, first, to a State for the generation or purchase of electric energy for use in the State, and the States of Arizona, California, and Nevada shall be given equal opportunity as such applicants.
如果存在冲突的申请（如有），则上述部长应在适当考虑公共利益的情况下，根据《联邦水电法》中规定的有关许可证和执照冲突申请的政策，在听取意见后解决，但优先考虑使用水和附属工程的申请人以及水力发电和分配水力发电或在水力发电厂配电盘输送所需的特权，应首先给予为发电或购买电能的州。在本州、亚利桑那州、加利福尼亚州和内华达州使用时，应给予此类申请人平等的机会。
The rights covered by such preference shall be contracted for by such State within six months after notice by the Secretary of the Interior and to be paid for on the same terms and conditions as may be provided in other similar contracts made by said Secretary: Provided, however, That no application of a State or a political subdivision for an allocation of water for power purposes or of electrical energy shall be denied or another application in conflict therewith be granted on the ground that the bond issue of such State or political subdivision, necessary to enable the applicant to utilize such water and appurtenant works and privileges necessary for the generation and distribution of hydroelectric energy or the electrical energy applied for, has not been authorized or marketed, until after a reasonable time, to be determined by the said Secretary, has been given to such applicant to have such bond issue authorized and marketed.
这种优惠所涵盖的权利应在内政部长通知后六个月内由该州签订合同，并按照该内政部长签订的其他类似合同中规定的相同条款和条件支付费用：但是，不得以该州或政治区发行债券是使申请人能够利用这些水所必需的为由拒绝该州或政治区分配电力用水或电能的申请，或批准与之相冲突的其他申请，并且水力发电或所申请的电能的产生和分配所必需的附属工程和特权尚未获得授权或销售，直到上述部长确定的合理时间之后，已给予此类申请人以授权和销售此类债券。
(d) Any agency receiving a contract for electrical energy equivalent to one hundred thousand firm horsepower, or more, may, when deemed feasible by the said Secretary, from engineering and economic considerations and under general regulations prescribed by him, be required to permit any other agency having contracts hereunder for less than the equivalent of twenty-five thousand firm horsepower, upon application to the Secretary of the Interior made within sixty days from the execution of the contract of the agency the use of whose transmission line is applied for, to participate in the benefits and use of any main transmission line constructed or to be constructed by the former for carrying such energy (not exceeding, however, one-fourth the capacity of such line), upon payment by such other agencies of a reasonable share of the cost of construction, operation, and maintenance thereof.
(d) 任何接受相当于十万固定马力或以上的电能合同的机构，在上述部长认为可行的情况下，从工程和经济考虑以及根据他规定的一般规定，可以要求允许任何其他签订本合同低于相当于两万五千固定马力的合同的机构，在申请使用其输电线路的机构合同执行后六十天内向内政部长提出申请，参与所建造的任何主输电线路的利益和使用，或由前者建造用于输送此类能量（但不超过该线路容量的四分之一），并由此类其他机构支付合理份额的建设、运营和维护成本。
The use is hereby authorized of such public and reserved lands of the United States as may be necessary or convenient for the construction, operation, and maintenance of main transmission lines to transmit said electrical energy.
特此授权使用美国的公共和保留土地，以用于建设、运营和维护传输所述电能的主输电线路。
SEC.
美国证券交易委员会。
6.
6.
That the dam and reservoir provided for by section 1 hereof shall be used: First, for river regulation, improvement of navigation, and flood control; second, for irrigation and domestic uses and satisfaction of present perfected rights in pursuance of Article VIII of said Colorado River compact; and third, for power.
第一条规定的水坝、水库的用途： 第一，用于河道整治、通航、防洪；第二，用于灌溉和家庭使用以及根据上述科罗拉多河契约第八条满足目前完善的权利；第三，为了权力。
The title to said dam, reservoir, plant, and incidental works shall forever remain in the United States, and the United States shall, until otherwise provided by Congress, control, manage, and operate the same, except as herein otherwise provided: Provided, however, That the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, enter into contracts of lease of a unit or units of any Government-built plant, with right to generate electrical energy, or, alternatively, to enter into contracts of lease for the use of water for the generation of electrical energy as herein provided, in either of which events the provisions of section 5 of this Act relating to revenue, term, renewals, determination of conflicting applications, and joint use of transmission lines under contracts for the sale of electrical energy, shall apply.
上述水坝、水库、发电厂和附属工程的所有权应永远保留在美国，并且除非国会另有规定，否则美国应控制、管理和运营它们，除非本文另有规定：但是，内政部长可以自行决定签订有权发电的任何政府建造的工厂的一个或多个单元的租赁合同，或者签订本文规定的使用水来发电的租赁合同，在任何一种情况下，本法第 5 条有关收入、期限、续展、冲突应用的确定以及根据电能销售合同联合使用输电线路的规定均应适用。
The Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe and enforce rules and regulations conforming with the requirements of the Federal Water Power Act, so far as applicable respecting maintenance of works in condition of repair adequate for their efficient operation, maintenance of a system of accounting, control of rates and service in the absence of State regulation or interstate agreement valuation for rate-making purposes, transfers of contracts, contracts extending beyond the lease period, expropriation of excessive profits, recapture and/or emergency use by the United States of property of lessees, and penalties for enforcing regulations made under this Act of penalizing failure to comply with such regulations or with the provisions of this Act.
内政部长应制定和执行符合《联邦水电法》要求的规则和条例，只要适用，涉及以下方面：维修工程的维护足以使其有效运行，会计系统的维护，在没有州监管或州际协议评估的情况下对费率和服务的控制，合同的转让，超出租赁期的合同，征收超额利润，美国收回和/或紧急使用承租人的财产，以及对执行的处罚根据本法制定的条例，对不遵守此类条例或本法规定的行为进行处罚。
He shall also conform with other provisions of the Federal Water Power Act and of the rules and regulations of the Federal Power Commission, which have been devised or which may be hereafter devised, for the protection of the investor and consumer.
他还应遵守联邦水电法和联邦电力委员会规则和条例的其他规定，这些规定和条例已经制定或今后可能制定，以保护投资者和消费者。
The Federal Power Commission is hereby directed not to issue or approve any permits or licenses under said Federal Water Power Act upon or affecting the Colorado River or any of its tributaries, except the Gila River, in the States of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and California until this Act shall become effective as provided in section 4 herein.
特此指示联邦电力委员会不得根据上述《联邦水电法》向科罗拉多州、怀俄明州、犹他州、新墨西哥州、内华达州、亚利桑那州和加利福尼亚州的科罗拉多河或其任何支流（希拉河除外）发放或批准任何许可证或执照，直至本法按照本文第 4 节的规定生效。
SEC.
美国证券交易委员会。
7.
7.
That the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, when repayments to the United States of all money advanced, with interest, reimbursable hereunder, shall have been made, transfer the title to said canal and appurtenant structures, except the Laguna Dam and the main canal and appurtenant structures down to and including Syphon Drop, to the districts or other agencies of the United States having a beneficial interest therein in proportion to their respective capital investments under such form of organization as may be acceptable to him.
内政部长可以酌情决定，在向美国偿还所有预付款以及根据本协议可偿还的利息后，将上述运河和附属建筑物的所有权（拉古纳大坝和主运河及附属建筑物除外，直至并包括虹吸水滴）转让给美国各地区或其他机构，按照其在其可接受的组织形式下各自的资本投资的比例，在其中享有实益权益。
The said districts or other agencies shall have the privilege at any time of utilizing by contract or otherwise such power possibilities as may exist upon said canal, in proportion to their respective contributions or obligations toward the capital cost of said canal and appurtenant structures from and including the diversion works to the point where each respective power plant may be located.
上述地区或其他机构有权随时通过合同或其他方式利用上述运河上可能存在的电力可能性，按照其各自对上述运河和附属结构资本成本的贡献或义务，从并包括到各个发电厂可能所在地点的分流工程。
The net proceeds from any power development on said canal shall be paid into the fund and credited to said districts or other agencies on their said contracts, in proportion to their rights to develop power, until the districts or other agencies using said canal shall have paid thereby and under any contract or otherwise an amount of money equivalent to the operation and maintenance expense and cost of construction thereof.
上述运河上任何电力开发的净收益应存入基金，并按照其开发电力的权利的比例，记入上述合同中的上述地区或其他机构，直至使用上述运河的地区或其他机构根据任何合同或其他方式支付了相当于运营和维护费用以及建设成本的金额。
SEC.
美国证券交易委员会。
8.
8.
(a) The United States, its permittees, licensees, and contractees, and all users and appropriators of water stored, diverted, carried, and/or distributed by the reservoir, canals, and other works herein authorized, shall observe and be subject to and controlled by said Colorado River compact in the construction, management, and operation of said reservoir, canals, and other works and the storage, diversion, delivery, and use of water for the generation of power, irrigation, and other purposes, anything in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding, and all permits, licenses, and contracts shall so provide.
(a) 美国、其许可者、被许可者和承包商，以及由水库、运河和本法授权的其他工程储存、转移、运输和/或分配的水的所有用户和占用者，在所述水库、运河和其他工程的建设、管理和运营以及用于发电、灌溉和其他目的的水的储存、转移、输送和使用中，应遵守并受所述科罗拉多河契约的约束和控制，与本法中任何相反的规定尽管如此，所有许可证、执照和合同均应如此规定。
(b) Also the United States, in constructing, managing, and operating the dam, reservoir, canals, and other works herein authorized, including the appropriation, delivery, and use of water for the generation of power, irrigation, or other uses, and all users of water thus delivered and all users and appropriators of waters stored by said reservoir and/or carried by said canal, including all permittees and licensees of the United States or any of its agencies, shall observe and be subject to and controlled, anything to the contrary herein notwithstanding, by the terms of such compact, if any, between the States of Arizona, California, and Nevada, or any two thereof, for the equitable division of the benefits, including power, arising from the use of water accruing to said States, subsidiary to and consistent with said Colorado River compact, which may be negotiated and approved by said States and to which Congress shall give its consent and approval on or before January 1, 1929; and the terms of any such compact concluded between said States and approved and consented to by Congress after said date: Provided, That in the latter case such compact shall be subject to all contracts, if any, made by the Secretary of the Interior under section 5 hereof prior to the date of such approval and consent by Congress.
(b) 此外，美国在建设、管理和运营大坝、水库、运河和本协议授权的其他工程时，包括为发电、灌溉或其他用途而调配、输送和使用水时，以及由此输送的水的所有用户以及所述水库储存和/或所述运河输送的水的所有用户和占用者，包括美国或其任何机构的所有许可者和被许可者，应遵守并受制于和控制任何符合尽管与本协议相反，根据亚利桑那州、加利福尼亚州和内华达州或其中任何两个州之间的此类契约的条款，如果有的话，为了公平分配上述各州因使用水而产生的利益，包括权力，附属于并符合上述科罗拉多河契约，该契约可由上述各州谈判和批准，国会应在 1929 年 1 月 1 日或之前给予同意和批准；上述各州之间缔结并在上述日期后经国会批准和同意的任何此类契约的条款：但在后一种情况下，此类契约应遵守内政部长在国会批准和同意之日之前根据本法第 5 条签订的所有合同（如有）。
SEC.
美国证券交易委员会。
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9.
All lands of the United States found by the Secretary of the Interior to be practicable of irrigation and reclamation by the irrigation works authorized herein shall be withdrawn from public entry.
内政部长认为可通过本文授权的灌溉工程进行灌溉和开垦的所有美国土地均应停止向公众开放。
Thereafter, at the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, such lands shall be opened for entry, in tracts varying in size but not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres, as may be determined by the Secretary of the Interior, in accordance with the provisions of the reclamation law, and any such entryman shall pay an equitable share in accordance with the benefits received, as determined by the said Secretary, of the construction cost of said canal and appurtenant structures; said payments to be made in such installments and at such times as may be specified by the Secretary of the Interior, in accordance with the provisions of the said reclamation law, and shall constitute revenue from said project and be covered into the fund herein provided for: Provided, That all persons who served in the United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard during World War II, the War with Germany, the War with Spain, or in the suppression of the insurrection in the Philippines, and who have been honorably separated or discharged therefrom or placed in the Regular Army or Naval Reserve, shall have the exclusive preference right for a period of three months to enter said lands, subject, however, to the provisions of subsection (c) of section 4 of the Act of December 5, 1924 (43 Stat.
此后，在内政部长的指示下，这些土地应开放供进入，面积不等，但不超过一百六十英亩，由内政部长根据填海法的规定确定，任何此类进入者应根据该部长确定的所述运河及其附属建筑物的建设成本所获得的收益支付公平的份额；上述款项将根据上述填海造地法的规定，在内政部长指定的时间分期支付，并应构成上述项目的收入，并纳入本文规定的基金中：前提是，在第二次世界大战、对德战争、对西班牙战争或镇压菲律宾叛乱期间在美国陆军、海军、海军陆战队或海岸警卫队服役的所有人员，以及已光荣退役或退役的人员或被安置在正规陆军或海军预备役中的人，应享有三个月内进入上述土地的排他性优先权，但须遵守 1924 年 12 月 5 日法案第 4 条 (c) 款的规定（43 Stat.
672, 702; 43 U.S.C., sec.
672、702； 43 《美国法典》第 43 节
433); and also, so far as practicable, preference shall be given to said persons in all construction work authorized by this chapter: Provided further, That the above exclusive preference rights shall apply to veteran settlers on lands watered from the Gila canal in Arizona the same as to veteran settlers on lands watered from the All-American canal in California: Provided further, That in the event such entry shall be relinquished at any time prior to actual residence upon the land by the entryman for not less than one year, lands so relinquished shall not be subject to entry for a period of sixty days after the filing and notation of the relinquishment in the local land office, and after the expiration of said sixty-day period such lands shall be open to entry, subject to the preference in the section provided.
433）；并且，在可行的情况下，应优先考虑本章授权的所有建筑工程中的上述人员：进一步规定，上述专有优先权应适用于亚利桑那州吉拉运河供水的土地上的退伍军人定居者，与加利福尼亚州全美运河供水的土地上的退伍军人定居者相同：进一步规定，如果入境人员在该土地上实际居住不少于一年之前应随时放弃此类入境权，则土地如此放弃的土地在当地土地局提交并注明放弃后六十天内不得进入，并且在上述六十天期限届满后，此类土地应开放进入，但须遵守本节规定的优先权。
SEC.
美国证券交易委员会。
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That nothing in this Act shall be construed as modifying in any manner the existing contract, dated October 23, 1918, between the United States and the Imperial Irrigation District, providing for a connection with Laguna Dam; but the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to enter into contract or contracts with the said district or other districts, persons, or agencies for the construction, in accordance with this Act, of said canal and appurtenant structures, and also for the operation and maintenance thereof, with the consent of the other users.
本法中的任何内容均不得解释为以任何方式修改美国与帝国灌溉区之间 1918 年 10 月 23 日签订的、规定与拉古纳大坝连接的现有合同；但内政部长有权与该地区或其他地区、个人或机构签订合同，以便根据本法建设上述运河及其附属结构，并在其他用户同意的情况下进行运营和维护。
SEC.
美国证券交易委员会。
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That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to make such studies, surveys, investigations, and do such engineering as may be necessary to determine the lands in the State of Arizona that should be embraced within the boundaries of a reclamation project, heretofore commonly known and hereafter to be known as the Parker-Gila Valley reclamation project, and to recommend the most practicable and feasible method of irrigating lands within said project, or units thereof, and the cost of the same; and the appropriation of such sums of money as may be necessary for the aforesaid purposes from time to time is hereby authorized.
特此授权内政部长进行必要的研究、勘察、调查和工程，以确定亚利桑那州应纳入填海工程（此前通常称为帕克-吉拉谷填海工程）范围内的土地，并建议灌溉该工程或其单位内的土地的最切实可行的方法及其成本；特此授权为上述目的不时拨款。
The Secretary shall report to Congress as soon as practicable, and not later than December 10, 1931, his findings, conclusions, and recommendations regarding such project.
部长应尽快且不晚于 1931 年 12 月 10 日向国会报告他关于该项目的调查结果、结论和建议。
SEC.
美国证券交易委员会。
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“Political subdivision” or “political subdivisions” as used in this Act shall be understood to include any State, irrigation or other district, municipality, or other governmental organization.
本法中使用的“政治分区”应理解为包括任何州、灌溉区或其他区、市或其他政府组织。
“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 disposal of public land in certain States and Territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands,” and the Acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto.
本法中使用的“开垦法”应理解为美国国会于 1902 年 6 月 17 日批准的某些法案，题为“一项将某些州和领地出售和处置公共土地的收入拨款用于修建灌溉工程以开垦干旱土地的法案”及其修正案和补充法案。
“Maintenance” as used herein shall be deemed to include in each instance provision for keeping the works in good operating condition.
本文所用的“维护”应被视为包括在每种情况下保持工程处于良好运行状态的规定。
“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 relation thereto; and to repeal section 18 of the River and Harbor Appropriation Act, approved August 8, 1917, and for other purposes,” and the Acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto.
本法中使用的“联邦水电法”应理解为 1920 年 6 月 10 日批准的美国国会某些法案，题为“建立联邦电力委员会的法案；规定改善航行；发展水电；使用与之相关的公共土地；并废除 1917 年 8 月 8 日批准的河流和港口拨款法第 18 条以及其他目的”和该法案其修正和补充。
“Domestic” whenever employed in this Act shall include water uses defined as ‘domestic” in said Colorado River compact.
本法中使用的“国内”用水应包括上述科罗拉多河契约中定义为“国内”的用水。
SEC.
美国证券交易委员会。
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(a) The Colorado River compact signed at Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 24, 1922, pursuant to Act of Congress 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 disposition 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 II 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.
(a) 1922 年 11 月 24 日在新墨西哥州圣达菲签署的科罗拉多河契约，根据 1921 年 8 月 19 日批准的国会法案，题为“允许亚利桑那州、加利福尼亚州、科罗拉多州、内华达州、新墨西哥州、犹他州和怀俄明州之间就科罗拉多河水域的处置和分配以及其他目的签订契约或协议的法案”，特此获得美国国会批准，并且上述科罗拉多河契约第二条第一款的规定，使该契约在得到各签署国立法机构批准后具有约束力和强制性，特此放弃，并且当加利福尼亚州和至少五个提到的其他州已经批准或可能在以后批准上述契约并同意本协议规定的这种放弃时，该批准即生效。
(b) The rights of the United States in or to waters of the Colorado 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.
(b) 美国对科罗拉多河及其支流水域的权利，无论以何种方式主张或获得，以及那些根据美国提出主张的人的权利，应受上述科罗拉多河契约的约束和控制。
(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.
(c) 此外，美国或其授权下的所有专利、赠款、合同、特许权、租约、许可、执照、通行权或其他特权，对于使用科罗拉多河或其支流的水域，或通过所述河流或其支流的水域产生或传输电能而言必要或便利的，无论是根据本法、联邦水电法还是其他方式，均应以明确的条件和明确的契约为基础：河流或其支流的水域的接收者或持有者的权利，对于这些水域的使用是必要的、方便的或附带的，并且该水域的使用同样应受到上述科罗拉多河契约的约束和控制。
(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 out or referred to in the instrument evidencing any such patent, grant, contract, concession, lease, permit, license, right-of-way, or other privilege from the United States or under its authority, or not, and shall be deemed to be for the benefit of and be available to the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, and the users of water therein or thereunder, by way of suit, defense, or otherwise, in any litigation respecting the waters of the Colorado River or its tributaries.
(d) 本文提及的条件和契约应被视为与土地及其中的权利、利益或特权以及水权一起运行，并应作为法律问题而附加，无论是否在证明任何此类专利、授予、合同、特许权、租赁、许可、许可、通行权或来自美国或在其授权下的其他特权的文书中列出或提及，并且应被视为是为了亚利桑那州、加利福尼亚州的利益并可供其使用，科罗拉多州、内华达州、新墨西哥州、犹他州和怀俄明州，以及该州或该州的用水者，通过诉讼、辩护或其他方式，参与有关科罗拉多河或其支流水域的任何诉讼。
SEC.
美国证券交易委员会。
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This Act shall be deemed a supplement to the reclamation law, which said reclamation law shall govern the construction, operation, and management of the works herein authorized, except as otherwise herein provided.
本法应被视为对填海法的补充，除本法另有规定外，填海法应管辖本法授权工程的建设、运营和管理。
SEC.
美国证券交易委员会。
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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to make investigation and public reports of the feasibility of projects for irrigation, generation of electric power, and other purposes in the States of Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming for the purpose of making such information available to said States and to the Congress, and of formulating a comprehensive scheme of control and the improvement and utilization of the water of the Colorado River and its tributaries.
内政部长被授权和指示对亚利桑那州、内华达州、科罗拉多州、新墨西哥州、犹他州和怀俄明州的灌溉、发电和其他用途项目的可行性进行调查并公开报告，以便向这些州和国会提供这些信息，并制定科罗拉多河及其支流水的控制、改善和利用的综合计划。
The sum of $250,000 is hereby authorized to be appropriated from said Colorado River Dam fund, created by section 2 of this Act, for such purposes.
特此授权从本法第 2 条设立的科罗拉多河大坝基金中拨出 250,000 美元用于此类目的。
SEC.
美国证券交易委员会。
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In furtherance of any comprehensive plan formulated hereafter for the control, improvement, and utilization of the resources of the Colorado River system and to the end that the project authorized by this Act may constitute and be administered as a unit in such control, improvement, and utilization, any commission or commissioner duly authorized under the laws of any ratifying State in that behalf shall have the right to act in an advisory capacity to and in cooperation with the Secretary of the Interior in the exercise of any authority under the provisions of sections 4, 5, and 14 of this Act, and shall have at all times access to records of all Federal agencies empowered to act under said sections, and shall be entitled to have copies of said records on request.
为了促进此后制定的控制、改善和利用科罗拉多河水系资源的任何全面计划，并为了使本法授权的项目可以构成并作为此类控制、改善和利用的一个单位进行管理，根据任何批准国法律正式授权的任何委员会或专员均有权以顾问身份与内政部长合作，根据本法第 4、5 和 14 节的规定行使任何权力。采取行动，并应随时查阅有权根据上述章节采取行动的所有联邦机构的记录，并有权根据要求获得上述记录的副本。
SEC.
美国证券交易委员会。
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Claims of the United States arising out of any contract authorized by this Act shall have priority over all others, secured or unsecured.
美国因本法授权的任何合同而提出的索赔应优先于所有其他合同，无论有担保还是无担保。
SEC.
美国证券交易委员会。
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Nothing herein shall be construed as interfering with such rights as the States now have either to the waters within their borders or to adopt such policies and enact such laws as they may deem necessary with respect to the appropriation, control, and use of waters within their borders, except as modified by the Colorado River compact or other interstate agreement.
本文中的任何内容均不得解释为干涉各州对其境内水域目前拥有的权利，或干涉其认为必要的关于其境内水域的拨款、控制和使用的政策和法律，除非经《科罗拉多河契约》或其他州际协议修改。
SEC.
美国证券交易委员会。
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That the consent of Congress is hereby given to the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming to negotiate and enter into compacts or agreements, supplemental to and in conformity with the Colorado River compact and consistent with this Act for a comprehensive plan for the development of the Colorado River and providing for the storage, diversion, and use of the waters of said river.
国会特此同意亚利桑那州、加利福尼亚州、科罗拉多州、内华达州、新墨西哥州、犹他州和怀俄明州进行谈判并签订契约或协议，以补充和符合科罗拉多河契约，并与本法案一致，制定科罗拉多河开发的全面计划，并规定该河水的储存、转移和使用。
Any such compact or agreement may provide for the construction of dams, headworks, and other diversion works or structures for flood control, reclamation, improvement of navigation, division of water, or other purposes and/or the construction of power houses or other structures for the purpose of the development of water power and the financing of the same; and for such purposes may authorize the creation of interstate commissions and/or the creation of corporations, authorities, or other instrumentalities.
任何此类契约或协议可规定建造水坝、渠首工程和其他引水工程或结构，以用于防洪、填海、改善航行、分水或其他目的，和/或建造发电厂或其他结构，以开发水力和为其融资；为此目的，可以授权设立州际委员会和/或设立公司、当局或其他机构。
(a) Such consent is given upon condition that a representative of the United States, to be appointed by the President, shall participate in the negotiations and shall make report to Congress of the proceedings and of any compact or agreement entered into.
(a) 给予这种同意的条件是，由总统任命的一名美国代表应参加谈判并向国会报告谈判进程以及达成的任何契约或协议。
(b) No such compact or agreement shall be binding or obligatory upon any of such States unless and until it has been approved by the legislature of each of such States and by the Congress of the United States.
(b) 此类契约或协议对任何此类州均不具有约束力或义务，除非并直至其得到各州立法机关和美国国会的批准。
SEC.
美国证券交易委员会。
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Nothing in this Act shall be construed as a denial or recognition of any rights, if any, in Mexico to the use of the waters of the Colorado River system.
本法中的任何内容均不得解释为否认或承认墨西哥使用科罗拉多河系统水域的任何权利（如有）。
SEC.
美国证券交易委员会。
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That the short title of this Act shall be “Boulder Canyon Project Act.”
本法案的简称为“博尔德峡谷项目法案”。