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Show "Acting under instructions approved by the Secretary, the Bureau representatives stated the position that they were not authorized to commit either the Bureau or the Department except that on the basic issue as to amount of water to which Arizona is entitled under the Colorado River Compact, the Bureau and the Department did not propose to take any position-either for or against Arizona's contention; it being our view that the United States on this issue is in a position analogous to that of a stakeholder. "Considerable progress was made at the Phoenix conference. The views of the representatives of the compact states, except California, expressed at that meeting on the apportionment of waters to the Lower Basin may be summarized as follows: That the 8,500,000 acre feet provided for in Articles Ill(a) and Ill(b) of the Colorado River Compact included the waters of Gila River and that the 1,000,000 acre feet provided for in III(b) was included for the benefit of Arizona to compensate it for the estimated beneficial consumptive use of approximately 1,000,000 acre feet on the Gila River; that III(b) water was apportioned water, and that California, by the Act of its legislature in accepting the 4,400,000 acre feet provided for in Section 4 of the Boulder Canyon Project Act, was precluded from claiming any amount in excess of the 4,400,000 acre feet from the 8,500,000 acre feet provided for in Articles III (a) and Ill(b); that this would leave 4,100,000 acre feet for apportionment between Arizona and Nevada, and those parts of New Mexico and Utah in the Lower Basin; that it was generally agreed that Nevada was entitled to 300,000 acre feet, this leaving the balance of 3,800,000 acre feet for Arizona and those parts of New Mexico and Utah in the Lower Basin. "Arizona concurred in these views, including the view that the waters of the Gila were included in III(a) and Ill(b) water, conditionally, that condition being that the proposed contract expressly reserve for future judicial determination the issue, which solely concerned Arizona and California, as to whether California was entitled 111-66 |