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Show -18- apportioned to the State of California under the Colorado River compact out of the total amount allocated to the lower basin would be 4,700,000 acre-feet, or 100,000 acre-feet more than California had asked for at Denver, and that by adding 500,000 acre-feet to the 3,000,000 acre-feet apportioned to Arizona on the basis recommended by the four upper basin governors that State would receive 3,500,000 acre-feet, or within 100,000 acre-feet of what had been requested by her commissioners at Denver. The Senator from Nevada then stated that, based upon the recommendations made by the upper basin governors plus an equal division of the additional 1,000,000 acre-feet, Mr. Francis B. Wilson, interstate river commissioner of the State of New Mexico, had prepared an amendment which the Senator asked to have printed in the Record. He did not offer it at that time, but merely asked to have it printed for the information of the Senate. I now offer that amendment to the bill. The Presiding Officer. The clerk will read the amendment. The Chief Clerk. The amendment proposes to strike out all of section 4 (a) as it appears in the substitute and to insert:1 Mr. Hayden. Mr. President, to one who is unfamiliar with the water situation in the Colorado River Basin, this amendment may appear to be somewhat complicated, but it deals with a most complicated subject and the purpose sought to be accomplished could not be expressed in a less number of words. However, if one will study the xText of amendment read by clerk is identical to Cal. Exh. No. 2011. |
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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. |