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__2__ 1. California Exhibit No. 2001: S. 728, 70th Cong., 1st Sess. (1927), the Senate version of the fourth Swing-Johnson Bill. Reported by Senator Johnson from the Senate Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, S. Rept. No. 592, 70th Cong., 1st Sess. (March 20, 1928). a. Limitation provision: Committee amendment (suggested by Senator Kendrick of Wyoming California Exhibit No. 2015, pp. 44-47) provided that water delivery contracts should not provide for "an aggregate annual consumptive use" of more than "4,600,000 acre-feet of the water allocated to the Lower Basin by the Colorado River compact . . . and one-half of the unallocated excess and/or surplus water . . ." and required legislative approval of the limitation by California (page 7, lines 4-12). b. History: (1) H. R. 5773, House version of the fourth Swing-Johnson Bill which passed the House, California Exhibit No. 2005, substituted for S. 728 as the unfinished business. California Exhibit No. 2015, p. 11. Amendment offered by Senator Johnson that all after the enacting clause of H. R. 5773 be struck and the language of S. 728 as reported by the Committee be substituted therefor. California Exhibit No. 2015, p. 12, and California Exhibit No. 2010. (2) Limitation provision adopted in present form as section 4(a) of Boulder Canyon Project Act, December 12, 1956. California Exhibit No. 2015, p. 91.