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Show 19 For the reasons aforesaid, and for other good and sufficient reasons, the Legislature of the State of Arizona has never ratified or approved said compact, and said compact is therefore inoperative, void and of no effect. XV On December 21, 1928, the Congress of the United States passed, and the President approved, an act entitled "An Act to provide for the construction of works for the protection and development of the Colorado River Basin, for the approval of the Colorado River Compact, and for other purposes." The short title of said act is "Boulder Canyon Project Act." A copy of said act is appended hereto at page 58. Said act provides in section 1 thereof that, for the purpose of controlling floods, improving navigation, regulating the flow of the Colorado River and providing for the storage and delivery of the water thereof for reclamation of public lands and other beneficial uses, and for the generation of electric power as a means of making the project therein authorized a self-supporting and financially solvent undertaking, the Secretary of the Interior, subject to the terms of the Colorado River Compact, is authorized to construct, operate and maintain a dam and incidental works in the main stream of the Colorado River at Black Canyon adequate to create a storage reservoir of a capacity of not less than 20,000,-000 acre-feet of water, and to construct, equip, operate and maintain at or near said dam a complete plant and incidental structures suitable for the fullest economic development of electric power from the water discharged from said reservoir. Said dam and reservoir, if constructed, will be partly in Arizona and partly in Nevada, and will occupy one of the sites mentioned in paragraph X hereof. Said dam and reservoir will store all of the |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde 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, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : |