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<br />" <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />2. The Boulder Canyon Pro;ect Act of 1928 <br />The Boulder Canyon Project Act of 1928, <br />43 U.S.C. ~ 617 (1928) ("Boulder Canyon Act"), authorized <br />the construction of the Hoover Dam and Powerplant and the <br />All-American Canal between Imperial Dam on the lower <br />river and the Imperial and Coachella Valleys. It also <br />provided that before the 1922 Compact would become <br />effective, all seven states had to ratify it, or that six <br />states, including california, ratify; and that California <br />enact legislation limiting itself to no more than 4.4 <br />m.a.f. of the 7.5 m.a.f. apportioned to the Lower Basin <br />states by Article III(a), plus not more than one-half of <br />the surplus water unapportioned by the 1922 compact. The <br />latter was accomplished in the California Limitation Act <br />of 1929. <br />The Boulder Canyon Act also pre-approved any compact <br />which Arizona, California, and Nevada might enter into <br />apportioning, of the Article III (a) water, 300,000 acre- <br />feet to Nevada, 2.8 m.a.f. to Arizona, and 4.4 m.a.f. or <br />less to California; allowing Arizona exclusive beneficial <br />use of the waters of the Gila River; exempting the Gila <br />River's Arizona tributaries from any obligation to supply <br />water to Mexico under Article III(c); and requiring that <br />any Mexican burden be borne equally by California and <br /> <br />-4- <br />