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Camille Calimlim Touton">M. Camille Calimlim Touton</a>, Commissioner</li><li style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;">(Vacant), Deputy Commissioner</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent agency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_the_Interior" title="United States Department of the Interior">United States Department of the Interior</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.usbr.gov/">www.usbr.gov</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Bureau of Reclamation</b>, formerly the <b>United States Reclamation Service</b>, is a <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_agencies" class="mw-redirect" title="List of United States federal agencies">federal agency</a> under the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Department_of_the_Interior" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Department of the Interior">U.S. Department of the Interior</a>, which oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to the oversight and operation of the diversion, delivery, and storage projects that it has built throughout the western United States for <a href="/wiki/Irrigation" title="Irrigation">irrigation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Water_supply" title="Water supply">water supply</a>, and attendant <a href="/wiki/Hydroelectric" class="mw-redirect" title="Hydroelectric">hydroelectric</a> <a href="/wiki/Power_generation" class="mw-redirect" title="Power generation">power generation</a>. It is currently the U.S.'s largest wholesaler of water, bringing water to more than 31 million people, and providing one in five Western farmers with irrigation water for 10 million acres of farmland, which produce 60% of the nation's vegetables and 25% of its fruits and nuts. The Bureau is also the second largest producer of hydroelectric power in the western U.S.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On June 17, 1902, in accordance with the <a href="/wiki/Reclamation_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Reclamation Act">Reclamation Act</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Interior" title="United States Secretary of the Interior">Secretary of the Interior</a> <a href="/wiki/Ethan_A._Hitchcock_(Interior)" title="Ethan A. Hitchcock (Interior)">Ethan Allen Hitchcock</a> established the U.S. Reclamation Service within the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Geological_Survey" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Geological Survey">U.S. Geological Survey</a> (USGS). The new Reclamation Service studied potential water development projects in each western state with federal lands. Revenue from sale of federal lands was the initial source of the program's funding. Because <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a> had no federal lands, it did not become a Reclamation state until 1906, when Congress passed a law including it in the provisions of the Reclamation Act. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=United_States_Bureau_of_Reclamation&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bureau_of_Reclamation_regions.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Bureau_of_Reclamation_regions.png/220px-Bureau_of_Reclamation_regions.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="233" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Bureau_of_Reclamation_regions.png/330px-Bureau_of_Reclamation_regions.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Bureau_of_Reclamation_regions.png/440px-Bureau_of_Reclamation_regions.png 2x" data-file-width="1428" data-file-height="1514" /></a><figcaption>Bureau of Reclamation regions</figcaption></figure> <p>From 1902 to 1907, Reclamation began about 30 projects in Western states.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Then, in 1907, the Secretary of the Interior separated the Reclamation Service from the USGS and created an independent bureau within the Department of the Interior. <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Haynes_Newell" title="Frederick Haynes Newell">Frederick Haynes Newell</a> was appointed the first director of the new bureau. Beginning with the third person to take over the direction of Reclamation in 1923, David W. Davis, the title was changed from Director to Commissioner.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the early years, many projects encountered problems: lands or soils included in projects were unsuitable for <a href="/wiki/Irrigation" title="Irrigation">irrigation</a>; land speculation sometimes resulted in poor settlement patterns; proposed repayment schedules could not be met by irrigators who had high land-preparation and facilities-construction costs; settlers were inexperienced in irrigation farming; <a href="/wiki/Waterlogging_(agriculture)" title="Waterlogging (agriculture)">waterlogging</a> of irrigable lands required expensive drainage projects; and projects were built in areas which could only grow low-value crops. In 1923 the agency was renamed the "Bureau of Reclamation".<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1924, however, in the face of increasing settler unrest and financial woes, the "Fact Finder's Report" spotlighted major problematic issues; the Fact Finders Act in late 1924 sought to resolve some of these problems.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In 1928 Congress authorized the Boulder Canyon (<a href="/wiki/Hoover_Dam" title="Hoover Dam">Hoover Dam</a>) Project, and large appropriations began, for the first time, to flow to Reclamation from the general funds of the United States. The authorization came only after a hard-fought debate about the pros and cons of public power versus private power.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (December 2017)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The heyday of Reclamation construction of water facilities occurred during the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Depression</a> and the 35 years after <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. From 1941 to 1947, <a href="/wiki/Civilian_Public_Service" title="Civilian Public Service">Civilian Public Service</a> labor was used to carry on projects otherwise interrupted by the war effort. The last major authorization for construction projects occurred in the late 1960s, while a parallel evolution and development of the American environmental movement began to result in strong opposition to water development projects. Even the 1976 failure of <a href="/wiki/Teton_Dam" title="Teton Dam">Teton Dam</a> as it filled for the first time did not diminish Reclamation's strong international reputation in water development circles.<sup id="cite_ref-teton_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-teton-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, this first and only failure of a major Reclamation Bureau dam led to subsequent strengthening of its dam-safety program to avoid similar problems. Even so, the failure of Teton Dam, the environmental movement, and the announcement of <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter">President Carter</a>'s "hit list" on water projects profoundly affected the direction of Reclamation's programs and activities.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Reclamation operates about 180 projects in the 17 western states. The total Reclamation investment for completed project facilities in September 1992 was about $11 billion. Reclamation projects provide agricultural, household, and industrial water to about one‑third of the population of the American West. About 5% of the land area of the West is irrigated, and Reclamation provides water to about one-fifth of that area, some 9,120,000 acres (37,000 km<sup>2</sup>) in 1992. Reclamation is a major American generator of <a href="/wiki/Electricity" title="Electricity">electricity</a>. As of 2007<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_States_Bureau_of_Reclamation&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, Reclamation had 58 power plants on‑line and generated 125,000 GJ of electricity. </p><p>From 1988 to 1994, Reclamation underwent major reorganization as construction on projects authorized in the 1960s and earlier drew to an end. Reclamation wrote that "The arid West essentially has been reclaimed. The major rivers have been harnessed and facilities are in place or are being completed to meet the most pressing current water demands and those of the immediate future". Emphasis in Reclamation programs shifted from construction to operation and maintenance of existing facilities. Reclamation's redefined official mission is to "manage, develop, and protect water and related resources in an environmentally and economically sound manner in the interest of the American public". In redirecting its programs and responsibilities, Reclamation substantially reduced its staff levels and budgets but remains a significant federal agency in the West.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Willard_Bay_State_Park.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Willard_Bay_State_Park.jpg/250px-Willard_Bay_State_Park.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Willard_Bay_State_Park.jpg/375px-Willard_Bay_State_Park.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Willard_Bay_State_Park.jpg/500px-Willard_Bay_State_Park.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4608" data-file-height="3456" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <p>On October 1, 2017, the <a href="/wiki/Hoover_Dam_Police" title="Hoover Dam Police">Hoover Dam Police Department</a> was closed and the <a href="/wiki/National_Park_Service" title="National Park Service">National Park Service</a> took over law enforcement duties for the Hoover Dam. The Hoover Dam Police Department existed for more than 80 years.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Leadership">Leadership</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=United_States_Bureau_of_Reclamation&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Leadership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Reclamation commissioners that have had a strong impact and molding of the Bureau have included <a href="/wiki/Elwood_Mead" title="Elwood Mead">Elwood Mead</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michael_W._Straus" title="Michael W. Straus">Michael W. Straus</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Floyd_Dominy" title="Floyd Dominy">Floyd Dominy</a>, with the latter two being public-power boosters who ran the Bureau during its heyday. Mead guided the bureau during the development, planning, and construction of the Hoover Dam, the United States' first multiple-purpose dam.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/John_W._Keys" title="John W. Keys">John W. Keys</a>, the 16th Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation who served from July 2001 to April 2006, was killed two years after his retirement on May 30, 2008, when the airplane he was piloting crashed in <a href="/wiki/Canyonlands_National_Park" title="Canyonlands National Park">Canyonlands National Park</a>, <a href="/wiki/Utah" title="Utah">Utah</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On June 26, 2017, President <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> nominated <a href="/wiki/Brenda_Burman" title="Brenda Burman">Brenda Burman</a> to serve as the Commissioner of the United States Bureau of Reclamation. She was confirmed by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States Senate</a> on November 16, 2017. Burman is the first woman to ever lead the Bureau of Reclamation. David Murillo was serving as the acting commissioner of the bureau. Burman resigned on January 20 after the inauguration of the <a href="/wiki/Biden_Administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Biden Administration">Biden Administration</a>. </p><p>The current Commissioner is <a href="/wiki/M._Camille_Calimlim_Touton" title="M. Camille Calimlim Touton">Camille Calimlim Touton</a>, the first Filipino American to head the agency. She was confirmed by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States Senate</a> on November 4, 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_reclamation_projects">List of reclamation projects</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=United_States_Bureau_of_Reclamation&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: List of reclamation projects"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Animas-La_Plata_Water_Project" title="Animas-La Plata Water Project">Animas-La Plata Water Project</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boise_Project" class="mw-redirect" title="Boise Project">Boise Project</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boulder_Canyon_Project" class="mw-redirect" title="Boulder Canyon Project">Boulder Canyon Project</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Arizona_Project_Aqueduct" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Arizona Project Aqueduct">Central Arizona Project Aqueduct</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Utah_Project" title="Central Utah Project">Central Utah Project</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Valley_Project" title="Central Valley Project">Central Valley Project</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colorado-Big_Thompson_Project" class="mw-redirect" title="Colorado-Big Thompson Project">Colorado-Big Thompson Project</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colorado_River_Storage_Project" title="Colorado River Storage Project">Colorado River Storage Project</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Columbia_Basin_Project" title="Columbia Basin Project">Columbia Basin Project</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elwha_Ecosystem_Restoration" class="mw-redirect" title="Elwha Ecosystem Restoration">Elwha River Dam Removal Project</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fryingpan-Arkansas_Project" class="mw-redirect" title="Fryingpan-Arkansas Project">Fryingpan-Arkansas Project</a></li> <li>Gila Project</li> <li>High Plains Cooperative Pilot Project</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huntley_Project" title="Huntley Project">Huntley Project</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Klamath_Project" title="Klamath Project">Klamath Project</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minidoka_Project" title="Minidoka Project">Minidoka Project</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moon_Lake_Project" class="mw-redirect" title="Moon Lake Project">Moon Lake Project</a></li> <li>Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project</li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Platte_Project" title="North Platte Project">North Platte Project</a></li> <li>Palo Verde Diversion Project</li> <li>Pojoaque Basin Regional Water System Project</li> <li>Project Skywater</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rio_Grande_Project" title="Rio Grande Project">Rio Grande Project</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shoshone_Project" title="Shoshone Project">Shoshone Project</a></li> <li>Sierra Cooperative Pilot Project</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strawberry_Valley_Project" title="Strawberry Valley Project">Strawberry Valley Project</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washita_Basin_Project" title="Washita Basin Project">Washita Basin Project</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yuma_Auxiliary_Project&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yuma Auxiliary Project (page does not exist)">Yuma Auxiliary Project</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuma_Project" title="Yuma Project">Yuma Project</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=United_States_Bureau_of_Reclamation&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Colorado_River_Aqueduct" title="Colorado River Aqueduct">Colorado River Aqueduct</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Desert_Terminal_Lakes_Program" title="Desert Terminal Lakes Program">Desert Terminal Lakes Program</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Coulee_Dam" title="Grand Coulee Dam">Grand Coulee Dam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Bureau_of_Reclamation_dams" title="List of United States Bureau of Reclamation dams">List of United States Bureau of Reclamation dams</a></li> <li>Refuge Water Supply Program</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Riverside_Canal_(El_Paso)" title="Riverside Canal (El Paso)">Riverside Canal (El Paso)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuma_Valley_Railway" title="Yuma Valley Railway">Yuma Valley Railway</a>, a predecessor of the Yuma Valley Railroad that was owned by USG along Colorado River in Yuma, Arizona</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=United_States_Bureau_of_Reclamation&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output 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"100 years of reclamation historiography." <i>Pacific Historical Review</i> 47.4 (1978): 507-564.<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3637371">online</a>; Covers 1) irrigation , 1878-1902, 2) reclamation service, 3) agricultural settlement, 1902-28, 4) engineering 1887-1953, 5) Department of Agriculture, 1898-1938, 6) historians, 1898-1978, and 7) challenges to Bureau</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marc_Reisner" title="Marc Reisner">Marc Reisner</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Cadillac_Desert" title="Cadillac Desert">Cadillac Desert</a>: The American West and Its Disappearing Water.</i> Revised edition (Penguin, 1993). <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-14-017824-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-14-017824-4">0-14-017824-4</a>.</li> <li>Pisani, Donald J. <i>Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935</i>, (University of California Press, 2002).</li> <li>Rowley, William D. <i>The Bureau of Reclamation: Origins and Growth to 1945, vol. 1</i>, (US Department of the Interior, 2006).</li></ul> <ul><li>Sneddon, Christopher. <i>Concrete Revolution: Large Dams, Cold War Geopolitics, and the US Bureau of Reclamation</i>, (University of Chicago Press, 2015).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=United_States_Bureau_of_Reclamation&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid 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