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Show 62 INTERSTATE COMPACTS pact. When approved by the legislature of a signatory state the orig- inal and four copies of this compact or agreement shall be signed by the governor of such state and notice of such approval and signing shall be given by such governor to the governors of the other signa- tory states and to the President of the United States of America. The governor last signing shall forward the original copy for deposit in the archives of the Department of State of the United States of America and one copy to the governor of each of the other signatory states." By the second paragraph of section 4, subsection (a), of the Boulder Canyon Project Act (45 Stat. 1057, 1059), the Congress "authorized" Arizona, California, and Nevada "to enter into an agreement which shall provide (1) that of the 7,500,000 acre-feet annually apportioned to the lower basin by paragraph (a) of Article III of the Colorado River compact, there shall be apportioned to the State of Nevada 300,000 acre-feet and to the State of Arizona 2,800,000 acre-feet for exclusive beneficial consumptive use in perpetuity, and (2) that the State of Arizona may annually use one-half of the excess or surplus waters unapportioned by the Colorado River compact, and (3) that the State of Arizona shall have the exclusive beneficial consumptive use of the Gila River and its tributaries within the boundaries of said State, and (4) that the waters of the Gila River and its tributaries, except return flow after the same enters the Colorado River, shall never be subject to any diminution whatever by any allowance of water which may be made by treaty or otherwise to the United States of Mexico but if, as provided in paragraph (c) of Article III of the Colorado River compact, it shall become necessary to supply water to the United States of Mexico from waters over and above the quantities which are surplus as defined by said compact, then the State of California shall and will mutually agree with the State of Arizona to supply, out of the main stream of the Colorado River, one-half of any deficiency 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 sub- ject 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." Of. 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, manage- ment, 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. |