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<br />'. <br /> <br />"Of the' eight and o11e..haH m.\lHon acre feet apportiored <br />to the Lower Basin there is thus left 4, 100,000 acre reet <br />which call not lawfully be used anywher.e except in Arizona <br />and Nevada and those small parts of New Mexico and Utah <br />which are in the Lower Basin as defined by the Colorado <br />River Compact. Nevada has a contract with the United <br />States, acting through the Secretary of the Interior, fOl' <br />delivery of three hundred thousand acre feet per year for <br />use in Nevada, which it is believed is as mUCl as Nevada <br />can reasonably expect to put to beneficial use. <br />Deducting the 4.400,000 acre feet for California and the <br />300.000 acre feet for Nevada, there is left 3,800,000 acre <br />feetof apportioned water which can not lawfully be used <br />anywhere except in Arizona and those small parts of Utah <br />and New Mexico which are in the Lower Basil'll. <br /> <br />, r <br /> <br />It is indicated by our report that the total uHimate <br />possible use of water of the Colorado River system in those <br />parts of Utah and New Mexico which are In the Lower, Basin, <br />including aU present and possible future uses. will amount <br />to not more than 131,000 acre feet pei year. The re is thus <br />left 3.669,000 acre feet per year which cannot be used <br />lawfully anywhere except in Arizona." <br /> <br />Then her comments state that the present use in Arizona <br />is 1,407.000 acre feet, which leaves, by arithmetical deduction, a <br />balance of 2,262,000 acre feet available for additional apportionment <br />and consumptive use in Arizona. The comments state: <br /> <br />"This qnantity of water is apportioned water a~d <br />does not inciude any water legally useable elsewhere in <br />either the Upper Basin or in the Lower Basin, and ample <br />provision has been made for the ultimate possible uses in <br />Nevada and those portions of Utah and New Mexico which <br />are in the Lower Basin." <br /> <br />They state that under the Arizona Contract. the United <br />States agrees to deliver this quantity of water from storage on. the main <br />stream for beneficial consumption. That's the statement they make, <br />that the Arizona contract with the United States provides for delivery <br />of stored water on the main stream. <br /> <br />Arizona selects for immediate construction the First Unit <br />of the GUa Project, which includes the reduced Yuma~Mesa Division <br />and the WeUton~Moha:wk Division thereof, and the Bridge '"anyon- <br />Central Arizona Project, 'and states that consumptive uses of water <br />will not exceed 600,000 acre feet per }'ear, on the First Unit of the <br />Gila Project, including the Yuma-Mesa Division and the WeUton-Mohawk <br />Division, and that consumptive uses on the Bridge Canyon-Central <br />Arizona Project will not exceed 1, 100,000 acre feet, leaving a further <br /> <br />-46- <br /> <br />;i <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />~.- <br /> <br />~- <br />