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Show -10- interest at 5 per cent and reasonable depreciation as determined by the Secretary of the Interior. All power development, operation and maintenance of power plants on the ail-American canal, and sales of power, shall be under the control of the Secretary of the Interior, and charges for commercial power shall be upon rules adopted by the Secretary of the Interior, applying equally to both Imperial and Yuma Valleys. The profits from commercial power shall be divided between the Imperial Irrigation District and the Yuma project in ratio of their respective investments in power, including the enlargements, alterations, and extensions of the headworks and main canal down to and including the power house site near Pilot Knob, plus investments in the power plants, power house, transmission lines, and other accessories. In dividing profits, the District shall be credited with the net revenue from the amount of power by which the total power output is increased by the all-American canal west of Pilot Knob, which shall be determined by the Secretary of the Interior. Power delivered to Imperial Irrigation District for pumping and other irrigation operation and maintenance purposes shall be delivered on the same terms as power delivered to the Yuma project for said purposes. 14. It is understood and agreed that the Secretary of the Interior shall control the division of water and shall divert for use of the Yuma project or any auxiliary thereof as heretofore or hereafter undertaken by the United States within the present boundaries of the United States and not exceeding 120,000 acres, sufficient water to secure the permanent and economical reclamation thereof, not exceeding, however, one-quarter of the water in the river above Laguna Dam. The foregoing applies only to the natural flow of the Colorado River, and not to stor- |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde 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, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : California exhibits. |