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-13- CALIFORNIA DEFENDANTS Exhibit No. 1701-J Identification: ............................ Admitted: Aug. 6, 1957 Extract From "Repayment Histories and Payout Schedules 1952." 2d Ed. Bureau of Reclamation. Parker-Davis Project arizona-california-nevada Although the Parker Dam power and Davis Dam projects were authorized and constructed separately, authorization is now pending in Congress to combine them into the Parker-Davis project. At the present time they are jointly operated and maintained and receive funds for operation and maintenance as a single unit. For repayment purposes they are considered as a single project. The Parker Dam power project was authorized under the Rivers and Harbors Act of August 20, 1935 (Public Law 409, 74th Cong., 1st sess.; 49 Stat. 1028). The Davis Dam project was authorized under the Reclamation Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187) when a finding of feasibility was made by the Secretary of the Interior on April 26, 1941. The Secretary's report was incorporated in House Document 186, Seventy-seventh Congress, first sess. The primary purpose of Parker Dam was to provide a forebay from which the Metropolitan water district could pump water into its Colorado River aqueduct. The dam was constructed with funds advanced by the Metropolitan water district. Parker Dam powerplant was later added to provide low-cost electrical energy to Arizona and southern California. Davis Dam provides regulation of the Colorado River below Hoover Dam and water for domestic use, including irrigation within the United States and delivery of water at the United States-Mexico inter-