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Show -26- [70 Cong. Rec. 174 (December 6, 1928)] Mr. Hayden. The hour is getting late. If I may, I should like to continue the reading of the amendment1 that I have offered so that I may explain its terms. I have read the proposal now contained in the bill as reported to the Senate and as recommended by the Senate Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation for the purpose of pointing out that the committee placed in the bill the 4,600,000 acre-feet of water, which, as I have said, was the demand made by California; whereas in the amendment that I have offered is 4,200,000 acre-feet of water, which is the quantity recommended for apportionment to California by the governors of the four upper basin States. Thus far the provisions are the same except for the difference of 400,000 acre-feet. To go on with the amendment, which provides further- and that the aggregate beneficial consumptive use by that State of waters of the Colorado River shall never exceed 500,000 acre-feet of the water apportioned by the compact to the lower basin by paragraph (b) of said Article III- That refers to the extra million acre-feet apportioned to the lower basin by the Colorado River compact. So that, adding together the 4,200,000 acre-feet apportioned by paragraph (a) of Article III of the Colorado River compact and the 500,000 acre-feet apportioned to the lower basin by paragraph (b) of the same article of the compact the total quantity of water which we ask the State of California to be limited to is 4,700,000 acre-feet out of the main stream of the Colorado River, which is 100,000 acre-feet more than California demanded at Denver. iCal. 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. |