AZ vs. CA:11 California Exhibits, Vol. XI; Nos. 1001-1011; 1101-1109; 1201-1251; 1301-13431301-1343

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states located without the drainage area of the Colorado River System which are now or shall hereafter be beneficially served by waters diverted from the system below Lee's Ferry; "domestic use" includes the use of water for household, stock, municipal, mining, milling, industrial, and other like purposes, but excludes the generation of electrical power. Article III (a) The aggregate annual consumptive use (diversions less returns to the river) of water of and from the Colorado River for use in the state of California, including all uses under contracts made under the provisions of the Boulder Canyon Project Act and all waters necessary for the supply of any rights which may now exist, shall not exceed four million, four hundred thousand acre feet of the waters apportioned to the Lower Basin States by paragraph (a) of Article III of the Colorado River Compact, plus not more than one-half of any excess or surplus waters unapportioned by said Colorado River Compact, such uses always to be subject to the terms of said compact. (b) Of the seven million, five hundred thousand acre feet annually apportioned to the Lower Basin by paragraph (a) of Article III of the Colorado River Compact, there is hereby apportioned annually to the state of Nevada three hundred thousand acre feet and annually to the state of Arizona two million, eight hundred thousand acre feet for the exclusive beneficial consumptive use by said states of Nevada and Arizona, respectively, in perpetuity. (c) The state of Arizona may annually use one-half of the excess or surplus waters unapportioned by the Colorado River Compact.