State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Imperial Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants : the United States of America and State of Nevada, interveners : State of Utah and State of New Mexico, impleaded defendants : report / Simon H. Rifkind, special master

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345 PART THREE Recommended Decree It is Ordered, Adjudged and Decreed that I. For purposes of this decree: (A) "Consumptive use" means diversions from the stream less such return flow thereto as is available for consumptive use in the United States or in satisfaction of the Mexican treaty obligation; (B) "Mainstream" means Lake Mead and the mainstream of the Colorado River downstream from Lake Mead within the United States; (C) Consumptive use from the mainstream within a state shall include all uses of water of the mainstream within that state, including but not limited to, uses made by persons, by agencies of the state, and by the United States for the benefit of Indian Reservations and other federal establishments within the state; (D) "Regulatory structures controlled by the United States" refers to Hoover Dam, Davis Dam, Parker Dam, Headgate Rock Dam, Palo Verde Weir, Imperial Dam, Laguna Dam and all other dams and works controlled or operated by the United States which regulate the flow of water in the mainstream or the diversion of water from the mainstream ; (E) "Water controlled by the United States" refers to the water in Lake Mead, Lake Mohave, Lake Havasu and all other water in the mainstream below Hoover Dam and within the United States of America; (F) "Tributaries" means all stream systems in the Lower Basin of the Colorado River the waters of which