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Show -31- On page 6, strike out line 25, and on page 7, lines 1 to 8, inclusive,1 and insert in lieu thereof the following: "permanent service and shall conform to paragraph (a) of section 4 of this act. No person shall". On page 12, after line 14, add the following paragraph to section 6: "The Federal Power Commission is hereby directed not to issue or approve any permits or licenses under said Federal water power act upon or affecting the Colorado River or any of its tributaries in the States of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and California until this act shall become effective, as provided in section 4 herein." Mr. Phipps. I thank the Senator from New Mexico. lCal. Exh. No. 2010. [70 Cong. Rec. 332, 333 (December 10, 1928)] Mr. Bratton. Mr. President, I presented and had printed last Saturday an amendment1 carrying out the observations just expressed, and providing that we shall proceed only upon the basis of a 7-State ratification if that can be obtained within one year after the passage of this bill, and upon a 6-State basis thereafter, with the provision that in her act of ratification the State of California should limit herself to 4,400,000 acre-feet annually of the allocated water and one-half of the surplus waters of the lower basin. In that connection the senior Senator from Colorado [Mr. Phipps] previously had introduced and had printed a similar amendment, fixing the maximum at 4,600,000 acre-feet.2 Otherwise the two amendments are quite similar. 1Cal. Exh. No. 2013. 2Cal. Exh. No. 2012. |
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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. |