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Show -14- Article II. (a) The right given to the Lower Basin by Paragraph B, Article III, of the Colorado River Compact, to increase its beneficial consumptive use of the waters of the Colorado River System by one million acre-feet per annum shall attach, relate and belong exclusively to the State of Arizona; provided, that said right shall attach solely to and shall be held to completely exhaust the right to the use of waters of the Colorado River System entering the Colorado River within the State of Arizona below Lee Ferry. (b) Any rights which the States of New Mexico and Utah may have in and to any of the waters of the Colorado River System entering the Colorado River in Arizona below Lee Ferry shall be the subject of an agreement or agreements between said States of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, and shall not be held to affect the allocations herein made to the States of California and Nevada. Article III. Any waters which it may hereafter become necessary, under the provisions of Paragraph C, Article III, of the Colorado River Compact, to deliver to the United States of Mexico, shall be supplied, first, out of the surplus waters of the main Colorado River passing Lee Ferry, over and above the apportionment to the Lower Basin contained in Paragraph A, Article III; and if such surplus shall prove insufficient, then the burden of deficiency resting upon the Lower Basin shall be borne by the States of Arizona, California and Nevada, exclusively out of the apportionment provided in Paragraph A, Article III, in the proportion that the respective diversion by such |
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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. |