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Show 461 1925 River and Harbor Act which had the effect of precluding "308" surveys for the Colorado River.308 Meanwhile, in 1922 the seven States in the Colorado River Basin had signed an interstate compact which became effective in 1929 as to all such States except Arizona by which it was finally ratified in 1944.309 The compact divides the Colorado River Basin into an "Upper Basin" and a "Lower Basin" and apportions the waters between these two Basins.310 Its major purposes are:311 to provide for the equitable division and apportionment of the use of the waters of the Colorado River system; to establish the relative importance of different beneficial uses of water; to promote interstate comity; to remove causes of present and future controversies and to secure the expeditious agricultural and industrial development of the Colorado River Basin, the storage of its waters, and the protection of life and property from floods. In addition to approving the Colorado River Compact, the 1928 Boulder Canyon Project Act authorized the development recommended six years earlier by the Bureau of Reclamation.312 The Act directs the Secretary of the Interior "to make investi- gation and public reports of the feasibility of projects for irri- gation, generation of electric power, and other purposes in the states of Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming for the purpose of * * * formulating a com- prehensive scheme of control and the improvement and utiliza- tion of the water of the Colorado River and its tributaries." 813 [t also gave consent to the States involved to enter into com- pacts consistent with the Colorado River Compact and con- 808 Act of March 3, 1925, § 3, 43 Stat. 1186, 1190. 809 See supra, n. 27, pp. 320-321. 810 Colorado River Compact, Arts. I, III, Hoover Dam Power and Water Contracts and Related Data, Department of the Interior, Bureau of Recla- nation, pp. 5, 6 (1950). 8U Art. I, id., p. 5. 812 For approval of the Compact, see supra, n. 27, pp. 320-321. 818 Act of December 21, 1928, § 15, 45 Stat. 1057, 1065, as amended, 43 J. S. C. 617n. For an interim report, see H. Doc. No. 419, 80th Cong., 1st less. (1947). |