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Show enacts provisions requiring the United States and its agencies: (a) When they make beneficial consumptive use of -waters in the basin to do so in keeping with the compact allocations, (b) When undertaking programs or projects that would present or inter- fere with the full beneficial consumptive use of waters within the basin, first, to consult with various interested agencies, Federal and State. (c) If they determine that a program or project is to be undertaken, notwithstanding encroachment on certain established uses of water for irrigation and domestic purposes, to recognize those established uses as property* If the Congress enacts such provisions, the States would have the assurance that they feel it essential• The propriety of legislation by the Congress of the kind proposed is, I believe, in conformance with procedures heretofore employed by Congress when it has imposed certain limitations on the Federal Power Commission by section 27 of the act of June 10, 1920 (1+1 Stat. IO63, 1077), which provides: "That nothing herein contained shall be construed as affecting or in- tending to affect or in any way to interfere with the laws, of the respective States relating to the control, appropriation, use, or distribution of water* used in irrigation or for municipal or other uses, or any vested right acquired therein*" Qf somewhat the same character are the provisions of section 8 of the act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat, 388), governing the Department of the Interior in its reclamation activities: ''That nothing in this act shall be construed as affecting or intended to affect or to in any way interfere with the laws of any State or Terri- tory relating to the control, appropriation, use or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder, and the Se- cretary of the Interior, in carrying out the provisions of this act, shall proceed in conformity with such laws, and nothing herein shall in any way affec-fc any right of any State or of the Federal Government or of any land- owner., appropriator, or user of water in, to, or from any interstate stream or the waters thereof; * * *" J[n my opinion, unusual care was taken in drafting the provisions of articXe XI to avoid seeking the enactment of Federal legislation that could be construed as withdrawing Federal jurisdiction over the waters of the basin, or that would require onerous procedures by Federal agencies in their present or prospective operations affecting the waters of the basin*. IRRIGATION FARMER S ome of the principles embodied in the proposed compact are aptly illustrated by the case of the irrigation farmer, who must of necessity |