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Show 5 1 Sec. 4. (a) No work shall be begun and no moneys 2 expended on or in connection with the works or structures 0 provided for in this Act, and no water rights shall be claimed 4 or initiated hereunder, and no steps shall be taken by the 5 United States or by others to initiate or perfect any claims 6 to the use of water pertinent to such works or stnictures 7 until the State of California and at least three five of the S States of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and 9 Wyoming shall have approved the Colorado River compact 10 mentioned in section 12 hereof and shall have consented to a 11 waiver of the provisions of the first paragraph of Article XT 12 of said compact, which makes the same binding and obliga- 13 tory only when approved by each of the seven States men- 14 tioned in said section 12, and shall have approved said 15 compact without condition save that of such approval by the 16 State of California and at least three five of the other States 17 mentioned 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 w 22 otherwise, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, 23 adequate, in his judgment, to insure payment of all expenses 24 of operation and maintenance of said works incurred by the 25 United States and the repayment, within fifty years from |
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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. |