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Show 199 gave California 500,000 acre-feet and Arizona 500,000 acre-feet of the million acre-feet referred to in Article III(b). The intended effect of the Phipps amendment, like the Hayden amendment, was to limit California to 4.4 out of the 7.5 million acre-feet referred to in Article III (a), plus 50% of the million acre-feet referred to in Article III(b), plus 50% of any additional water that might be available above 8.5 million acre-feet. In order to clarify that his amendment limited California to 4.4 out of 7.5 million acre-feet, not out of 8.5 million acre-feet as Arizona and Nevada in effect contend, Senator Phipps perfected his amendment, by adding the italicised language, to specify that the 4.4 million acre-foot limitation on California was from the water "apportioned to the lower basin States by paragraph (a) of Article III of the Colorado River compact."60 This conclusion is also supported by the following colloquy between Senator King of Utah and Senator Johnson of California: "Mr. King. If I may have the attention of the Senator from California and the Senator from Colorado, I direct attention to line 5, page 3, of the amendment offered by the Senator from Colorado. Let me read back a few words: plus not more than one-half of any excess or surplus waters unapportioned by said compact. I was wondering if there might not be some uncertainty as to what surplus waters were therein referred to. I think it was the intention to refer to the surplus waters mentioned in paragraph (b) of article 3 of the compact, being the 1,000,000 acre-feet supposed to be unappropriated. Mr. Johnson. No; that is not quite my understanding. It is by no means certain that there is any other, and it is by no means certain that there 6070 Cong. Rec. 459-460 (1928), Ariz. Legis. Hist. pp. 64-67. |
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Original Report: State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Imperial 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 |