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Show 21 {Mr. Carson of Arizona:] .... And all of the vater for which we are contracting here, or asking you to contract, wo bear the burden in Arizona of Its availability, under the Act, and the Compact, and there Is not in this contract now presented any construction of either the compact, the Project Act or the California limitation. If there is any ambiguity in any of these documents, It Is not In this contract, nor is there any administrative determination. But rather the ambiguity arises from the CaBfftrnia limitation, the Colorado River Compact and the Boulder Canyon Project Act, which we leave exactly as they now are. And Mr. Secretary, plaase bear in mind that Congress, following a meeting of the Governors of the Colorado River Basin states, took over and enacted Into the Boulder Canyon Project Act, which is now the law of the land and of the river, provisions destined to protect Arizona, If you please, and the other Colorado River Basin states, by requiring that California, before any money should be spent under that act, must by act of her legislature agree unconditionally and irrevocably what the total use of water of the Colorado |
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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] : |