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<br />.l'" :'"..,- <br /> <br />.'~.:' ~'. <br /> <br />, Dtile::'3 <br /> <br />--"3- <br /> <br />calculateG ~y the DL~e2u for use in Utah and 300,000 acre-feet <br />for us e in IJevac1a, from the tot al of the 'Tat er aLJortioned to <br />the Lm'Jer 2;e,sin, before calculatinG the quantity avai2.able to <br />Arizona. <br />Arizona has 8.(~vised ~Joth Uti:\h ane1 Uevada that phen they <br />are ready to do 30 Arizona is prepared to ne~otiate a compact <br />uith them, alJPortionin~ the 'rater of the Vire;in River and <br />Kanab Cree:~ ane1 if ITev.:\c1a desires, the "aters of the Bie; ;;uei.{,y <br />for use in the States throu::;h "hich such tributaries flolT, in <br />such a [Janner that all of the 'rater of said tributaries, to the <br />Greatest e::tent ~)ossi'Jle, ,,'oulci. be utilizec1 ln such tributary <br />basins uJ.thout regarci. to the effect of such utilization on <br />the florT of the Flaln streB':: of the Colorac10 River, lfhether or <br />not California should join ln such a compact. <br />Iio parts of the three Stat es throuC;h uhich such tributaries <br />flol, have access to any ITater exce.,t that flo,'inrs in such <br />tributaries, <br /> <br />Si tuatlon C's to i;ew i:exico <br />Lil:e'Jise, Arizona has contractee1 "ith the United States <br />to recoGnize the riGhts of 11m, ;;exlco to equite.ble r,hl',res of <br />the uater 8,p2)Ortio neei. aml una''- portioned in the LOI,rer Basin, <br />Those shares have not yet been fixed in amount; but for the <br />lJurpose of cl'lculatinc; its 'l<O'ter sup:'ly for the central Arizona <br />Project, Arizon2. has tee1ucte(1 fron the fluantity of "Jater 2.p,)or- <br />tionec1 to the LOIJer Basin the ultl~ate ~ossible uses in Mew <br />iiexico, as estimated by the Bureau of Reclamation. That <br />estiJJate, of course, is not binci.inc; on either of the States; <br />but it is the clos est ap:;roYJ.r.l1J.tion available to us at thi <br />