AZ vs. CA:14 California Exhibits, Vol. XIV; Nos. 2051-2100

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18 1 necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act, not exceeding 2 in the aggregate $125,000,000. 3 Sec. 4. (a) No work shall be begun and no moneys 4 expended on or in connection with the works or structures 5 provided for in this Act, and no water rights shall be 6 claimed or initiated hereunder, and no steps shall be taken by 7 the United States or by others to initiate or perfect any claims 8 to the use of water pertinent to such works or structures until 9 the States of California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, 10 Utah, and Wyoming shall have approved the Colorado River 11 compact mentioned in section 12 hereof and shall have con- 12 sented to a waiver of the provisions of the first paragraph 13 of Article XI of said compact, which makes the same binding 14 and obligatory only when approved by each of the seven 15 States mentioned in said section 12, and shall have approved 16 said compact without condition save that of such six-State 17 approval, and until the President by public proclamation 18 shall have so declared. 19 (b) Before any money is appropriated or any con- 20 struction work done or contracted for, the Secretary of the 21 Interior shall make provision for revenues, by contract or 22 otherwise, in accordance with the pivvisions of this Act, 2o adequate, in his judgment, to insure payment of all expenses 24 of operation and maintenance of said works incurred by 25 the United States and the repayment, within fifty years from