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Show a comprehensive Congressional allocation, there is no room for the application of conflicting State laws. 10. The Project Act provides adequate standards to guide the Secretary so that there can be no constitutional objection of inadequate standards. Examples of these standards are: (a) present perfected rights must be respected; (b) the California limitation must be followed; (c) the stated purposes of the Project Act must be honored, such as navigation, flood control, river regulation, etc.; (d) the Secretary must observe the requirements concerning revenues so that the Project is liquidated according to the terms of the Project Act; (e) the Compact allocation between the Upper and Lower Basins must be respected; (f) the exercise of the powers granted to the Secretary are subject to executive, congressional, and judicial review. 11. The Secretary has control of the Colorado River under the Boulder Canyon Project Act from Lee Ferry to the Mexican Border, and any uses on the mainstream of the Colorado River between Lee Ferry and Lake Mead are subject to the Secretary's control. 12. The Secretary must make contracts with each individual water user within the State of Nevada. 13. The United States' claims for Indian Reservations are valid for the amount of water necessary to irrigate the reasonable irrigable acreage on such Reservation. The quantities found necessary by the Special Master are approved. The methods by which the Indian Reservations were created are of no significance. The fact that water is from a navigable stream does not preclude the United States Government from reserving such water in the creation of an Indian Reservation. 14. The Master was correct in his holding with reference to the Lake Mead Recreational Area, Havasu and Imperial Wildlife Refuges, and the Gila National Forest that there was reserved with the creation of these reservations sufficient water for the purposes for which these reservations were created. 15. United States' uses are to be charged to the State wherein the uses are made. The United States' Indian uses are "present perfected rights." Present perfected rights protected by the Project Act are all of those actual uses or reserved water which occurred prior to the effective date of the Boulder Canyon Project Act. 16. The United States Government cannot claim the benefits of salvage because the Project Act commands that consumptive use be measured by diversion less returns from the river. 32 |