PARKER-DAVIS PROJECT HISTORICAL INFORMATION

The Parker-Davis Project was formed by consolidating two projects, Parker Dam and Davis Dam, under terms of the Consolidate Parker Dam Power Project and Davis Dam Project Act on May 28, 1954. Davis Dam, on the Colorado River 67 miles below Hoover Dam, created Lake Mohave. Davis Dam has a storage capacity of 1.8 million acre-feet. The five generation units’ operating capacity is 255,000 kilowatts. Parker Dam, which created Lake Havasu 155 miles below Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, was authorized by the Rivers and Harbors Act of Aug. 30, 1935. Reclamation constructed the project partly with funds advanced by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. MWD receives half of the capacity and energy from four generating units. The 50% federal share of Parker Power plant capacity, as determined by Reclamation, is 60,000 kW.

• Post-2008 Marketing Initiative
• Reclamation Act (32 Stat. 388 dated June 17, 1902) (4.53 MB PDF)
• Department of Energy Organization Act, dated Aug. 4, 1977 (1.54 MB PDF)
• Conformed General Consolidated Power Marketing Criteria or Regulations for Boulder City Area Projects (49 FR 50582 dated December 28, 1984)
• Energy Planning and Management Program (EPAMP) (60 FR 54151 dated October 20, 1995)
• Congressional Authorization for Parker Dam (49 Stat. 1028, 1039, dated Aug. 30, 1935)
• Congressional Act to consolidate the Parker Dam and Davis Dam projects (68 Stat. 143 dated May 28, 1954)
• Reclamation Project Act of 1939, § 9(c), 53 Stat. 1187, 1194 (Aug. 4, 1939), as amended or supplemented (43 U.S.C. 485h(c))
• Final Allocation Criteria and Allocations of Capacity and Associated Energy from the Parker-Davis Project (52 FR 28333, dated July 29, 1987)
• Energy Policy Act of 1992 (Section 114, 106 Stat. 2776, 2799 dated Oct. 24, 1992, 42 U.S.C. 7275 et seq.)
• Indian Self Determination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq., as amended or supplemented)
• National Environmental Policy (42 U.S.C. 4321-4347)
• Council on Environmental Quality Regulations for implementing NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500-1508)
• DOE NEPA Implementing Procedures and Guidelines (10 CFR part 1021)
• Parker-Davis Project Post-2028 Marketing Initiative