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Show -2- Wyoming shall have ratified the Colorado River compact mentioned in section 12 hereof, and the President, by public proclamation, shall have so declared: Provided, That the ratification act of the State of California shall contain a provision agreeing that the aggregate annual consumptive use by that State of waters of the Colorado River shall never exceed 4,200.000 acre-feet of the water apportioned to the lower basin by paragraph (a) of Article III of said compact, and that the aggregate beneficial consumptive use by that State of waters of the Colorado River shall never exceed 500,000 acre-feet of the water apportioned by the compact to the lower basin by paragraph (b) of said Article III; and that the use by California of the excess or surplus waters unapportioned by the Colorado River compact shall never exceed annually one-half of such excess or surplus waters; and that the limitations so accepted by California shall be irrevocable and unconditional, unless modified by the agreement described in the following paragraph, nor shall said limitations apply to water diverted by or for the benefit of the Yuma reclamation project for domestic, agricultural, or power purposes except to the portion thereof consumptively used in California for domestic and agricultural purposes. "The said ratifying act shall further provide that if by tri-State agreement hereafter entered into by the States of California, Nevada [10260] and Arizona the foregoing limitations are accepted and approved as fixing the apportionment of water to California, then California shall and will therein agree (1) that of the 7,500,000 acre-feet annually apportioned to the lower basin by paragraph (a) of Article III of the Colorado River compact, there shall be apportioned to the State of Nevada 300,000 acre-feet and to the State of Arizona, 3,000,000 acre-feet for exclusive beneficial consumptive use in perpetuity, and (2) of the 1,000,000 acre-feet in addition which the lower basin has the right to use annually by paragraph (b) of said article there shall be apportioned to the State of Arizona 500,000 acre-feet for beneficial consumptive use, and (3) that the State of Arizona may annually use one-half of the excess or surplus waters unapportioned by the Colorado River compact, and (4) that the State of Arizona shall have the exclusive beneficial consumptive use of the Gila River and its tributaries within the boundaries of said State, and (5) that the waters of the Gila River and its tributaries shall never be subject to |
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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. |