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Show __3__ would ever claim the right to use any portion of the 1,000,000 acre-feet permitted to the lower basin by Article III(b) of the Compact, else permission to do so would have been incorporated in the Boulder Canyon Project Act and in the Act of the Legislature of the State of California. (P. 15) * * * the reason no mention is made in the Boulder Canyon Project Act of the 1,000,000 acre-feet permitted to the lower basin by Article IH(b) of the Compact, is because Congress considered the 1,000,000 acre-feet permitted by Article HI(b) to be in Arizona tributaries for the sole and exclusive benefit of the State of Arizona * * *. (P. 16) * * * the 1,000,000 acre-feet per annum permitted to the lower basin by Article III(b) of the Colorado River Compact * * *. (P. 17) * * * The complainant State of Arizona hopes to be able to show in the case hereafter to be brought by it, by competent, relevant, and material evidence of the hearings and reports of the Congressional Committees and statements made in Congress and the legislative history of the Act, that it was the intent of Congress to impose a limitation on California by the terms of the Boulder Canyon Project Act of 4,400,000 acre-feet of the water apportioned by Article III (a) of the Compact, plus one-half of the surplus or unapportioned waters of the main stream of the Colorado River, thereby saving to Arizona its tributaries and the 1,000,000 acre-feet per annum therefrom permitted by the understanding, of which testimony is sought to be perpetuated and assuring to Arizona and those claiming under it the right to appropriate one-half of the surplus or unapportioned waters of the main stream present in the lower basin for use, in excess of the 7,500,- |
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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. |