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<br />.OHSiS <br /> <br />......'. <br /> <br />-7- <br /> <br />,ms acc epteel by the ConGress. <br />~he provisions of Section 4(8) of the Sou15er Canyon <br />Project Act uere ado:Jted by the Congress fran the reconeJendations <br />;!E\C1.e oy the four Governors of the l!~):.)er o.ivision States,. except <br />that ConGress tool: 200,000 acre-feet frora Arizona ane1 added it to <br />Californln, ,;e.lcinG the CongresSi01121 11P.P'ortionment 300,000 acre- <br />feet to lievmla, 4,400,000 acre_feet to Cnlifornia, ancl. 2,8QO,OOO <br />acre-feet to Arizona. I submit thnt the ~roviRions of 4(a) make <br />it clear that such "as the intent of ConGress, pnd that Congress <br />required California to 11.ccecJt sllch e11vision by requiring California <br />as a conC.ition to the effectiveness of the BOl!.le1er Canyon Project <br />Act anc1 the constrl!ction of the uorc:s therein authorized, to <br />ac10pt the California Self_Limite.tion Act, "hich California cUd <br />ac10pt in ;.jarcil, 1929, b~' act of its le::;islature, irrevocably and <br />ullconc1itional::r ae;reein2; '!ith the United States and I say uith <br />the Congress of the Unitec1 States, since the reci~rocal leeisla- <br />tion a'ilountec1 to a lee;islati ve cOLpact for the benefit of the other <br />States of the basin, ,]nde tl1J:'ol'.::;h the aGency of the Congress of <br />the United States, II The.t the 2<~grec:ate annual consu"ptive use <br />(diversions :ess returns to the River) of uater O:L E'.nd from <br />the Colorado River for use in the State or California, includln~ <br />all uses um'i.er contr9.cts i;wCle under the :Jrovisions of the Act, <br />and all 'Tater necessar:' for tl'le su:-.':~ly of any riGhts Hhich may <br /> <br />nOl1 exist, she.ll not exceed 4,400,000 acre-feet of the 'laters <br />a;)cjortioned to the Louer Bnsin States by parac;racJh (a) of <br />Article III of the Coloraelo ;::\iver Corapact, plus not nore than <br />