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Show quoting article 7(a) of the Arizona contract, Secretary Fortas states: "The Colorado River Compact, to which the Arizona and similar contracts are subject, uses throughout, but does not define, the term 'beneficial consumptive use.' Section 4(a) of the Boulder Canyon Project Act contains this language: "... the State of California . . . shall agree irrevocably and unconditionally . . . that the aggregate annual consumptive use (diversions less returns to the river) . . . shall not exceed, etc. [Deletions are Secretary Fortas'.] "If the apparent sense of the above-quoted language should be applied to the Arizona contract, which by law and its terms is subject to the compact and to such ultimate and authentic interpretation as may be given to the compact terms, it would contemplate the consumptive use within Arizona of a maximum of 2,800,000 acre-feet annually, with that use measured by the difference between diversions and return flow, subject, however, to Article 7(d) of the contract providing as follows . . . ." Calif. Ex. 7611: United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation,_JBoulder Canyon Project, contract with City of Yuma for delivery of water, dated November 12, 1959; Contract, City of Yuma and Arizona Water Company, dated November 12, 1959, approved by Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton, March 25, i960 The last link in the chain of water delivery contracts executed by the Secretary of the Interior is the Secretary's water delivery contract with the City of Yuma, dated November 12, 1959^ the rights and obligations of which were assigned by the 111-81 |
