Upper Columbia River Development: Hearings Before the United States Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Eighty-Fifth Congress, Second Session, on Apr. 21-23, May 5-7, 1958U.S. Government Printing Office, 1958 - 442 páginas |
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acre-feet agencies agreement allocated Article boundary waters BRANDBORG British Columbia Brownlee Brownlee Dam Bruces Eddy Canada Chairman Clearwater Columbia Basin Columbia River Basin committee construction Corps of Engineers cost cubic feet Dalles Department diversion downstream benefits economic effect Federal Power Commission feet per second fisheries flood control flow Fork Fraser River GABRIELSON Government Grand Coulee Hells Canyon Hells Canyon Dam high dams HODGES Hungry Horse hydroelectric Idaho installations interest International Joint Commission irrigation ITSCHNER JANDREY kilowatts Kootenay River Lake LEFFLER Libby Dam Libby project MAPES MCKAY ment Mica Creek middle Snake million acre-feet Montana negotiations Nez Perce operation Pacific Northwest Paradise Paradise Dam Paradise project percent possible problem proposed question reservoir River development Salmon River Senator CHURCH Senator DwORSHAK Senator NEUBERGER Snake River sockeye salmon spawning steelhead stream studies territory tion treaty tributaries United upper Columbia River upstream storage utilization Washington
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Página 31 - Bach of the High Contracting Parties reserves to itself or to the several State -Governments on the one side and the Dominion or Provincial Governments on the other as the case may be, subject to any treaty provisions now existing with respect thereto, the exclusive jurisdiction and control over the use and diversion, whether temporary or permanent, of all waters on its own side of the line which in their natural channels would flow across the boundary or into boundary waters...
Página 52 - President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and...
Página 35 - The present treaty shall be ratified by the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by His Britannic Majesty. The ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible and the treaty shall take effect on the date of the exchange of its ratifications. It shall thereafter remain in force continuously unless and until terminated by twenty-four months' written notice given by either high contracting party to the other.
Página 36 - America, have caused the said treaty and the said understanding, as forming a part thereof, to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this...
Página 32 - The High Contracting Parties agree that it is expedient to limit the diversion of waters from the Niagara River so that the level of Lake Erie and the flow of the stream shall not be appreciably affected.
Página 34 - ... interests of either in relation to the other or to the inhabitants of the other, along the common frontier between the United States and the Dominion of Canada, shall be referred from time to time to the International Joint Commission for examination and report, whenever either the Government of the United States or the Government of the Dominion of Canada shall request that such questions or matters of difference be so referred.
Página 31 - The High Contracting Parties agree that the navigation of all navigable boundary waters shall forever continue free and open for the purposes of commerce to the inhabitants and to the ships, vessels, and boats of both countries equally...
Página 33 - ... for these waters, and no use shall be permitted which tends materially to conflict with or restrain any other use which is given preference over it in this order of precedence : (1) Uses for domestic and sanitary purposes; (2) Uses for navigation, including the service of canals for the purposes of navigation ; (3) Uses for power and for irrigation purposes.
Página 46 - ... on their respective sides of the boundary of any remedial or protective works or any dams or other obstructions in waters flowing from boundary waters or in waters at a lower level than the boundary in rivers flowing a'cross the boundary, the effect of which is to raise the natural level of waters on the other side of the boundary unless the construction or maintenance thereof is approved by the aforesaid International Joint Commission.
Página 34 - The international joint commission is authorized in each case so referred to examine into and report upon the facts and circumstances of the particular questions and matters referred, together with such conclusions and recommendations as may be appropriate...