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Show I 10 UPDATING THE HOOVER DAM DOCUMENTS 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 tq 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. "(d) In addition to the water covered by paragraphs (b) and (c) hereof, the state of Arizona shall have the exclusive beneficial consumptive use of the Gila River and its tributaries within the boundaries of the state of Arizona in perpetuity. "(e) The waters of the Gila River and its tributaries, except return flow after the same enters the Colorado River, shall never be subject to any diminution whatever by any allowance of water which may be made by treaty or otherwise to the United States of Mexico, but if, as provided in paragraph (c) of Article III of the Colorado River Compact, it shall become necessary to supply water to the United States of Mexico from waters over and above the quantities which are surplus as defined by said Colorado River Compact, then the state of California shall and does mutually agree with the state of Arizona to supply, out of the main stream of the Colorado River, one-half of any deficiency which must be supplied to Mexico by the Lower Basin. "(f) Neither the states of Arizona, California nor Nevada will withhold water nor require the delivery of water which can not reasonably be applied to domestic and agricultural uses. "(g) All the provisions of this compact or agreement shall be subject in all particulars to the provisions of the Colorado Compact. "ARTICLE IV "This compact or agreement shall take effect and become binding and obligatory when it shall have been approved by the Congress of the United States of America, by the legislatures of each of the states of Arizona, California and Nevada and when the States of Arizona, California and Nevada shall have ratified the Colorado River Compact. When approved by the legislature of a signatory state the original and four copies of this compact or agreement shall be signed by the governor of such state and notice of such approval and signing shall be given by such governor to the governors of the other signatory states and to the President of the United States of America. The governor last signing shall forward the original copy for deposit in the archives of the Department of State of the United States of America and one copy to the governor of each of the other signatory states." By the second paragraph of section 4, subsection (a), of the Boulder Canyon Project Act (45 Stat. 1057, 1059), the Congress "authorized" Arizona, California, and Nevada "to enter into an agreement which shall provide (1) that of the 7,500,000 acre-feet annually apportioned to the lower basin by paragraph (a) of Article III of the Colorado River compact, there shall be apportioned to the State of Nevada 300,000 acre-feet and to the State of Arizona 2,800,000 acre-feet for exclusive beneficial consumptive use in perpetuity, and (2) that the State of Arizona may annually use one-half of the excess or surplus waters unapportioned by the Colorado River compact, and (3) that the State of Arizona shall have the exclusive beneficial consumptive use of the Gila River and its tributaries within the boundaries of said State, and (4) that the waters of the Gila River and its tributaries, except return flow after the same enters the Colorado River, shall never be subject to any diminution whatever by any allowance of water which may be made by treaty or otherwise to the United States of Mexico but if, as provided in paragraph (c) of Article III of the Colorado River compact, it shall become necessary to supply water to the United States of Mexico from waters over and above the quantities which are surplus as defined by said compact, then the State of California shall and will mutually agree with the State of Arizona to supply, out of the main stream of the Colorado River, one-half of any deficiency |
