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Show Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming ratifying the six-state compact, (2) the presidential proclamation of June 25, 1929, declaring the Project Act effective, and (3) the California Limitation Act, Secretary Wilbur characterized the significance of the Limitation Act as follows: "As required by section 4(a) of the act, the State of California, in the statute, copy of which has been handed you, has agreed irrevocably and unconditionally with the United States and for the benefit of the States of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, that the aggregate annual consumptive use of water of and from the Colorado River shall not exceed 4,400,000 acre-feet of the waters apportioned to the lower basin States by paragraph A of Article III of the Colorado River compact, plus not more than one-half of any excess or surplus waters unapportioned by the compact, such , / uses always to be subject to the terms of the compact. -' The House Committee report on the bill set out the text of section 4(a) of the Project Act and quoted Secretary Wilbur's statement advising the Committee that the Limitation 2/ Act requirement had been met.-^ The Secretary similarly reported to the Senate Appropriations Committee by letter of June 16, 1930,-2/ forwarding the same documents presented to the House Committee and characterizing the Limitation Act in almost the same words he used Hearings on H.R. 12902 Before the House Committee on Appropriations7 71st Cong., 2d Sess. 920 (1930). -/ H.R. Rep. No. 1876, 71st Cong., 2d Sess. 11-12 (1930). Hearings on H.R. 12902 Before a Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, 71st Cong., 2d Sess. 157 U93O;. III-145 |