AZ vs. CA:13 California Exhibits, Vol. XIII; Nos. 1800-1842; 1901-1906; 2000-2044

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CALIFORNIA DEFENDANTS Exhibit No.-20.3-1 Identification: .A.UG. 1.2 1957 Admitted: Extract From Memorandum of Elwood Mead, Commissioner of Reclamation, to Secretary Wilbur, January 10, 1930. (pp. 3-4) The second important matter to be dealt with concerns the division of the water allocated by the Colorado River Compact to the lower basin states. The Compact allocates to the upper basin states 7,500,000 acre-feet and to the lower basin states an equal amount, with the right of the lower basin states to increase this amount by an additional million acre-feet. Congress, in Section 4(a) of the Boulder Canyon Project Act authorizes the execution of a subsidiary compact among the lower basin states, allocating the 7,500,000 acre-feet apportioned by paragraph (a) of Article III of the Compact, to the state of Nevada, 300,000 acre-feet, and to the state of Arizona 2,-800,000 acre-feet, thereby leaving 4,400,000 acre-feet of this water for the use of California. This is consonant with the other provisions of this section, absolutely limiting California to the use of this amount of water. In each case reference is specifically made to paragraph (a) of Article III of the Compact, which covers only the 7,-500,000 acre-feet, thereby evidencing the intention apparently of leaving the additional million acre-feet allowed by the Compact to the lower basin states to be divided in some other manner. The proposed subsidiary compact