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Show APPENDIX I 111 which must be supplied to Mexico by the lower basin, and (5) that the State of California shall and will further mutually agree with the States of Arizona and Nevada that none of said three States shall withhold water and none shall require the delivery of water, which cannot reasonably be applied to domestic and agricultural uses, and (6) that all of the provisions of said tri-State agreement shall be subject in all particulars to the provisions of the Colorado River Compact, and (7) said agreement to take effect upon the ratification of the Colorado River compact by Arizona, California, and Nevada." Cf. section 8, subsection (b), of the Boulder Canyon Project Act (45 Stat. 1057, 1062) providing that in the event a compact between Arizona, California, and Nevada or any two of them was negotiated and consented to by the Congress on or before January 1, 1929, the United States would be controlled thereby in its construction, management, and operation of Hoover dam and the other works authorized by the Act, but that if such a compact were concluded after that date the compact should be subject to all contracts entered into by the Secretary of the Interior under authority of section 5 of the Act prior to the date of Congress' consent thereto. Upper Colorado River Compact. -For text, see pp. 339ff post. Mexican Water Treaty.- For text, see pp. 456ff post. Bibliography.- Olson, The Colorado River Compact (1963); Wilbur and Ely, The Hoover Dam Documents (2d ed., 1948; House Document No. 717, 80th Congress). The minutes of the first 18 meetings of the commission which negotiated the Colorado River Compact were published in 1948 by the Colorado State Water Conservation Board; those of the 19th-25th, 26th (first part), and 27th meetings were reproduced by the Department of Justice in 1953. All of these minutes were also reproduced by the Upper Colorado River Commission, Grand Junction, Colo., 1956. |
