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Show 604 INTERSTATE ADJUDICATIONS views in the Report on the Project Act. S. Rep. No. 592; 70th Cong., 1st Sess., pt. 2. He said that the bill "sedulously and intentionally proposes to sever Arizona's jugular vein" {id., p. 3), that "the amount of water apportioned to California ... is not warranted in equity, law, justice, or morals" {id., p. 4), that the bill is "a reckless and relentless assault upon Arizona." Id., p. 38. He apparently never imag- ined that the proposed legislation would confine California to main- stream water. He indeed charged that the bill "authorizes California, which comprises only %y2 per cent of the Colorado River Basin and contributes no water, to appropriate . . . over 38 per cent of the estimated constant water supply available in the main Colorado River for all seven States in the basin and for Mexico." Id., p. 5. Like Senator Ashhurst and like the Chairman of the Senate Com- mittee, Senator Phipps, I too read the Project Act to speak in terms of the entire Colorado River system in the United States. [The appendix to Mr. Justice Douglas' opinion containing excerpts from the Boulder Canyon Project Act, the Colorado River Compact, and the California Self-Limitation Act is omitted.] DECREE (Entered March 9, 1964; 376 U.S. 340) It is Ordered, Adjudged and Decreed that I. For purposes of this decree: (A) "Consumptive use" means diversions from the stream less such return flow thereto as is available for consumptive use in the United States or in satisfaction of the Mexican Treaty obligation; (B) "Mainstream" means the mainstream of the Colorado River downstream from Lee Ferry within the United States, including the reservoirs thereon; (C) Consumptive use from the mainstream within a State shall include all consumptive uses of water of the mainstream, in- cluding water drawn from the mainstream by underground pump- ing, and including but not limited to, consumptive uses made by persons, by agencies of that State, and by the United States for the benefit of Indian reservations and other federal establishments within the State; (D) "Regulatory structures controlled by the United States" refers to Hoover Dam, Davis Dam, Parker Dam, Headgate Rock Dam, Palo Verde Dam, Imperial Dam, Laguna Dam and all other dams and works on the mainstream now or hereafter controlled or operated by the United States which regulate the flow of water in the mainsream or the diversion of water from the mainstream; (E) "Water controlled by the United States" refers to the water in Lake Mead, Lake Mohave, Lake Havasu and all other water in the mainstream below Lee Ferry and within the United States; (F) "Tributaries" means all stream systems the waters of which naturally drain into the mainstream of the Colorado River below Lee Ferry |