The Bureau of Reclamation (formerly the United States Reclamation Service) is an agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior and oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to the oversight and/or operation of numerous water diversion, delivery, and storage and hydroelectric power generation projects it built throughout the western United States.[1]

In July 1902, in accordance with the Reclamation Act, Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock established the U.S. Reclamation Service within the U.S. Geologic Survey (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 Texas had no federal lands, it did not become a Reclamation state until 1906, when Congress passed a special Act including it in the provisions of the Reclamation Act.

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Wyoming's Seminoe Reservoir is 91% full - KPTM-TV
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Wyoming's Seminoe Reservoir is 91% full

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John Lawson of the US Bureau of Reclamation says Seminoe, about 30 miles north of Rawlins, stood at 91% of its 1.01-million acre-feet capacity on Monday. ...



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