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Show CALIFORNIA DEFENDANTS Exhibit N0....I&3.8 Identification:.AUG.9.....1957 Admitted: AU£.9......t957 Opinion of the Solicitor, Department of the Interior Printed in 54 Decisions of the Department of the Interior 593 (1934) STATE OF ARIZONA: CONTRACT FOR WATER FROM COLORADO RIVER Opinion, August 30, 1934 State of Arizona-Boulder Canyon Project Act-Colorado River Compact-Statutory Construction. By the terms of Section 4(a) of the Act of December 21, 1928, commonly known as the Boulder Canyon Act, it is provided that the State of California shall have, each year, for beneficial consumptive use, not to exceed 4,400,000 acre-feet of water from the lower basin of the Colorado River, in accordance with Article III (a) of the Colorado River Compact, and it is further provided that no person shall obtain said water from the Colorado River except by contract entered into with the Secretary of the Interior and approved by that official. Held, That the provisions of the Act, considered in the light of the compact, must be interpreted as forbidding the Secretary from entering into a contract for the storage of water in the reservoir contemplated which could render impossible of fulfillment the allotment yearly in the State of California of 4,400,000 acre-feet of water. Margold, Solicitor: You have informally referred to me the development of a contract for the delivery, to the State of Arizona, of water for use under the provisions of the Colorado River Compact and the act of December 21, 1928 (45 Stat. 1057), commonly known as the Boulder Canyon Project Act. |
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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. |