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Show 321 has previously been made to the continuing concern of states over apportionment of waters of interstate streams, evident both in litigation and in compacts.28 The Secretary of the Interior is also authorized to enter into contracts for furnishing water for irrigation and domestic uses. § 5, 45 Stat. 1060, 43 U. S. 0., 617d. In 1929, a Presidential Proclamation declared that the Boulder Canyon Project Act had become effective, the Compact having been approved by all of the States except Arizona. Proclamation No. 1882, June 25, 1929, 46 Stat. 3000. Pursuant to authority under the Act, the Secretary of the Interior in 1930 executed a contract with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. The Hoover Dam Power and Water Contracts and Related Data, Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, p. 49 (1950). As amended on September 28, 1931, this contract provides for a water supply, to the extent available under the Compact, in accordance with the California "Seven-Party Water Agreement" of August 18, 1931. Under this Agreement, water to which California might be entitled under the Compact and Project Act was allocated among various agencies in an order of priority. The Metropolitan Water District received a fourth pri- ority of 550,000 acre-feet of water per annum, which with the first three priorities totals 4,400,000 acre-feet, and a fifth priority for an additional 550,000 acre-feet, a total of 1,100,000 acre-feet in all. The Hoover Dam Power and Water Contracts and Related Data, Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, pp. 49-64, 283-287. Arizona sought unsuccessfully to enjoin both operation of the Compact and performance of contracts made under authority of the Act. Arizona v. California, 283 U. S. 423 (1931). In 1934, construction of Parker Dam was begun by the United States under contract with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, which recited, among other things, the execution of contracts for the delivery of water to the District, and construction by the District of an aqueduct for conveying water from the Colorado River to the metropolitan area of Southern California for "domestic, municipal, and other useful purposes." Hoover Dam Documents, H. Doc. No. 717, 80th Cong., 2d sess., p. A689 (1948). When Arizona threatened to use military force to stop the work on the dam, the United States sought to enjoin interference by the State. The Supreme Court denied the injunction, however, on the ground that construction was not properly authorized. United States v. Arizona, 295 U. S. 174 (1935). Construction of the Parker Dam was later authorized in the 1935 River and Harbor Act. Act of August 30, 1935, § 2, 49 Stat. 1028, 1039. Arizona approved the Colorado River Compact in 1944. See Act approved February 24, 1944, Ch. 5, 17th Legislature; Session Laws of Arizona, 1944, pp. 427-428. During the contract year ending May 31, 1950, a total of 188,261.0 acre- feet of water was diverted into the Metropolitan Aqueduct. Monthly Water Diversion Report, Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation (May 1950). See also S. 75, 81st Cong., 1st sess. (1949) (Central Arizona Project). 28 See supra, pp. 58-64, 65-68. |