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Show 8. California Exhibit No. 2008: Ashurst amendment numbered 39 to S. 728 (May 28 (calendar day, May 29), 1928). a. Limitation provision: Provided that, in the absence of a compact among the States of Arizona, California and Nevada, the Colorado River System waters available for use in those States are divided as follows: Article III (a) waters divided annually, 3,000,000 acre-feet to Arizona, 4,200,000 acre-feet to California and 300,000 acre-feet to Nevada; each state to have exclusive use of its tributaries; and Article III(b) waters "deemed to attach exclusively to the Arizona tributaries." b. History: (1) Amendment intended to be proposed by Senator Ashurst; ordered to lie on the table and to be printed on May 28 (calendar day, May 29), 1928. (2) Never debated and no further action taken. 9. California Exhibit No. 2009: Phipps amendment to S. 728 (December 5, 1928). a. Limitation provision: Provided for alternative seven or six-state ratification and, in the latter alternative, required California to limit her "aggregate annual consumptive use (diversions less returns to the river)" not to exceed 4,600,000 acre-feet "of the waters apportioned to the lower basin States" by the Compact plus not more than one-half of any "excess or surplus waters unap-portioned" by the Compact. |
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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] : California exhibits. |