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Show Secretary shall provide for revenue hereunder, by contract or otherwise, adequate, in his judgment, to insure payment of operation and maintenance expense of the works herein authorized to be constructed, interest on bonds (except interest during construction), and amortize the bonds within fifty years.] [U. B.] provided for in this Act, and no water right shall be claimed or initiated hereunder, and no steps shall be taken by the United States or by others to initiate or perfect any claims to the use of water pertinent to such works or structures until the States of California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming shall have approved the Colorado River Compact mentioned in section 12 hereof and shall have consented to a waiver of the provisions of the first paragraph of Article XI of said compact, which makes the same binding and obligatory only when approved by each of the seven States mentioned in said section 12, and shall have approved said compact without condition save that of such six-State approval, and until the President by public proclamation shall have so declared. [Conf. and U. B.] (b) Before any money is appropriated or any construction work done or contracted for, the Secretary of the Interior shall make provision for revenues, by contract or otherwise, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, adequate, in his judgment, to insure payment of all expenses of operation and maintenance of said works incurred by the United States and the repayment, within fifty years from the date of the completion of the project, of all amounts advanced to the fund under subdivision (b) of section 2, together with interest thereon. Sec. 5. That the [U. B.] [said] Secretary [U. B.] of the Interior is hereby authorized under said general regulations as he may prescribe, to contract for the storage of water in said reservoir and for the delivery thereof at such points on the river and on said canal as may be agreed upon, for irrigation and domestic uses, and delivery at the |
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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. |