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The Madera Canal is a 35.9 mi (57.8 km)-long aqueduct in the U.S. state of California. It is part of the Central Valley Project managed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation to convey water north to augment irrigation capacity in Madera County .
July 24 - The Madera Irrigation District starts the Madera dam project on San Joaquin River which later becomes Friant Dam [67] July 27 - California representative protests Nevada's plan to take Lake Tahoe water [68] July 28 - 800,000 acres of Miller-Lux land and water rights to be subdivided and sold to small farmers [69]
The GSA Schedule can be thought of as a collection of pre-negotiated contracts. [39] Procurement managers from government agencies can view these agreements and make purchases from the GSA Schedule by following the appropriate procedures prescribed by Federal Acquisition Regulation, or FAR, Subpart 8.4.
In the United States an irrigation district is a cooperative, self-governing public corporation set up as a subdivision of the State government, with definite geographic boundaries, organized, and having taxing power to obtain and distribute water for irrigation of lands within the district; created under the authority of a State legislature with the consent of a designated fraction of the ...
Additionally, regulation of interaction between contracting agencies and the GSA is detailed here. Section 302(b) states the "declared policy" of the United States, that "a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts for supplies and services [should be placed] with small business concerns". [3] 41 U.S. Code § 3104 now reads
New Exchequer Dam is a concrete–faced, rock-fill dam on the Merced River in central California in the United States.It forms Lake McClure, which impounds the river for irrigation and hydroelectric power production and has a capacity of more than 1,000,000 acre-feet (1.2 km 3).
The Irrigation District Act of 1916 ('Irrigation Smith Act) authorized the federal government to serve as the guarantor of debt obligations entered into by local governments to finance the acquisition, extension, or operation of irrigation, drainage, and flood control projects or to develop power generation facilities or water resources.