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Show the Interior filed a Motion to Intervene Out of Time and also a Motion to Reopen the Record for the Presentation of Evidence. On November 2, 1962 the Federal Power Commission granted a Limited Intervention Out of Time to the Secretary of the Interior. The Secretary was limited to filing exceptions to the Presiding Examiner's decision and participating in any oral argument which might subsequently take place in the case. Various parties filed exceptions to the decision of the Presiding Examiner. Oral argument was held upon the decision on February 15, 1963. On June 19, 1963 the Secretary of the Interior filed a Motion For Leave to File Supplemental Brief and Reopen the Record. He did this on the basis of the opinion of the Supreme Court in Arizona v. California, 373 U.S. 546. On June 21, 1963 the Federal Power Commission authorized all parties to file briefs as to the impact of Arizona v. California, supra, on the pending decision before the Federal Power Commission. Briefs were filed by various parties upon this matter and on August 16, 1963 the Federal Power Commission issued its order allowing the Secretary of the Interior until January 15, 1964 to file his plan of development for the Lower Basin in the Colorado River. On September 10,1963 Arizona sought, by petition, a reconsideration of the August 16, 1963 order of the Federal Power Commission. The case now stands in this posture - namely, the Secretary of the Interior has until January 15th to file his Pacific Southwest Water Plan before the Federal Power Commission. Tobin v. United States As indicated in the Fourteenth Annual Report of this Commission the Circuit Court of Appeals had reversed the Federal District Court which had found the defendant guilty of contempt of Congress for refusing to supply internal working papers of a compact organization. We further indicated in the Fourteenth Annual Report that the Solicitor General of the United States had filed a Petition for Certiorari in the Supreme Court to review the Circuit Court of Appeals decision. The Supreme Court on November 13, 1962 denied Certiorari and thus the Circuit Court of Appeals decision heretofore reported stands. General The Legal Committee and the legal staff of the Commission have imbarked upon a program of detailed analysis of the Colorado River Compact during the past year. This program is under way and will occupy a great deal of the staff's time in the future in order to prepare historical background material for analysis of this Com- 36 |