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<br />(. <br /> <br />Canyon Act, Congress had created a means of statutorily <br />apportioning the mainstream waters of the Colorado River <br />among california, Arizona, and Nevada. Arizona v. <br />California, 373 U.S. 546 (1963). In the Court's opinion, <br />of the 7.5 m.a.f. of water apportioned to the Lower Basin <br />by the 1922 Compact, the Boulder Canyon Act allocated 2.8 <br />m.a.f. to Arizona, 4.4 m.a.f. to California, and 300,000 <br />acre feet to Nevada, while allowing Arizona and Nevada <br />exclusive use of their tributaries. If there was any <br />surplus water in the mainstream, half of it would go to <br />California and half to Arizona. In the event of a <br />shortage of mainstream water, the Secretary of the <br />Interior was to equitably prorate the deficiency. <br />7. Colorado River Basin Pro;ect Act of 1968 <br />The Colorado River Basin Project Act of <br />1968, 43 U.S.C. U 1501 et seq. (1982) ("Basin Project <br />Act"), authorized the construction of a number of federal <br />projects, including the CAP, but directed the Secretary <br />of the Interior to administer the CAP so that California <br />never receives less than 4.4 m.a.f. Congress further <br />recognized that the Colorado River System contained too <br />little water to satisfy the Mexican Treaty burden and <br />also to accommodate the growing needs of the Upper and <br />Lower Basins. without augmentation of the water of the <br /> <br />-7- <br />