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Show -103- Senator McCarran. Are any representatives here from the Army Engineers who care to be heard? Statement of Joseph W» Kimball, Legal Branch Army Engineers Mr. Kimballc I am Joseph YU Kimball, from the legal branch of the Army Engineers. I think there is nothing I need add for the War Department.. Senator McCarran. Generally speaking, I take it, we might consider that your approbation of that which has been said? Mr» Kimball. The War Department has not taken a position favoring article XI of the compact, but we take the position that we have no objection to it* It will not interfere with our projects. We are not endorsing it, and not reoom- mending it» Senator McCarran* Thank you very much. Senator Butler* The report of the War Department, I suppose, may go in the record at this point? - - Senator McCarran. Yes; it may go in the record at this point*. (The report referred to is as follows;) War Department, Washington, D, C, March 30, 19U3» Hon. John H» Bankhead, Chairman, Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, ¦ : United States Senate, Washington, D. C. Dear Senator Bankheads I refer to your letter of February 20, 19U3* requesting a report on Senate bill No. 6U9> to promote flood control in the basin of the Republican River, and for other purposes* It is proposed by the bill to grant the consent of Congress to a com- pact or agreement entered into tp/ the States of Colorado, Kansas, and Neb- raska, with respect to the waters of the Republican River Basin. The compact which is recited in the bill provides for a division of the waters within the basin and for their efficient utilization by the States for beneficial consumptive use. The term ^beneficial consumptive use" is defined to be that use by which the water supply of the basin is consumed through the activities of man, including that lost by evaporation from constructed reservoirs, ca.nals, ditches, and irrigated areas. From this definition and related provisions, it seems clear that utilization of the waters of the basin primarily for |
