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Show I wish to place in the Record at this point a suggested amendment. It is not to be proposed, because that would be perfectly useless, but it has been suggested. It is in accordance with the conference to which I have just referred and it is designed to carry out that idea at some date. It was largely drawn by Mr. Wilson, the commissioner of New Mexico, in the course of the conference to which I have just referred. It is only to be published in the Record; it is not offered as an amendment. The Presiding Officer. Without objection, the suggested amendment will be printed in the Record. The suggested amendment1 is as follows: Strike out all of lines 1 to 18 [page 5], both inclusive, and insert in lieu thereof the following: "Sec. 4 (a). This act shall not take effect and no authority shall be exercised hereunder, unless and until the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and 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 xTo S. 728, Cal. Exh. No. 2001. |
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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. |