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Show -12- now in litigation and involves several novel and debatable issues of both fact and law. Authorizations of above projects, however, except in case of Anderson Ranch (flood control), Palisades (flood control), Columbia Basin, and Hungry Horse, do not make any reference to navigation. Region 2 (which includes the Central Valley Project, in California, the Orland Project, California, and the Klamath Project, in California and Oregon) In Region 2, section 8 of the Reclamation Act of 1902 has been construed to include rights in navigable as well as non-navigable streams and that region has proceeded under section 7, where applicable, to acquire the rights necessary for the Central Valley Project until requested to cease at the request of the Department of Justice on November 10, 1949. In the latter part of 1945, the Department of Justice recommended to the Bureau that no further steps be taken toward purchasing water rights from owners of lands similarly situated to those then in litigation. The Bureau then ceased to acquire any water rights on the San Joaquin River similarly situated to certain lands then in litigation. Acquisitions of water rights along the San Joaquin River were started in 1939, negotiations having been in progress long before that time. Acquisitions were accomplished by contract and by appropriations under State law. The principal points on the San Joaquin River, with relation to which the United States has acquired water rights, are below Friant Dam. Those acquisitions were essential to the establishment of the legal privilege to operate Friant Reservoir, the Madera Canal, and the Friant-Kern Canal in the manner planned. |
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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. |