Assistance program
Colorado River Basin Act of 1968
$2.2 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Bureau of Reclamation, Interior, Department of the
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements
- CFDA number
- 15.541
- What it does
- The Colorado River Basin Project Act of 1968, authorized the Secretary of the Interior to carry out various actions relating to the Colorado River, including construction of the Central Arizona Project. Some of the actions identified are contractable by entities pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, as amended.
- Who benefits
- The general public in the state of Arizona and southwestern New Mexico, irrigation and water districts and local entities.
- Who applies
- Must have a water allocation and water delivery from a Reclamation water resource project or State responsibility for various project purposes.
- Authorized by
- Colorado River Basin Act of September 30, 1968 amended by the Colorado River Basin Project Act, December 20, 1982.
- Public Law 117-58
- Program site
- http://www.usbr.gov/lc/phoenix/ ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how this program's money is paid out.
Grants
$1.6M
75%
Other
$543.9K
25%
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments