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<br />" ,eI <br />< . <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />') <br />\: :,~ <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />o <br />t ..;l <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />(c) If, as a matter of international comity, the <br />United States of America shall hereafter recognize in the <br />United States of Mexico any right to the use of any waters <br />of the Colorado R'i ver system, such waters shall. be supplied <br />first from the waters which are surplus over and above the <br />aggregate of the quantities specified in paragraphs (a) and <br />(b); and if such surplus shall prove insufficient for this <br />purpose then the burden of such deficiency shall b~ equally <br />borne by the upper basin and the lower basin, and whenever <br />necessary the States of the upper division shall deliver at <br />Lee Ferry water to supply one~half of the deficiency so <br />recognized in addition to that provided in paragraph (d). <br /> <br />(d) The States of the upper division will not cause <br />the flow of the river at 'Lee Ferry to be depleted below an <br />aggregate of 75,000,000 acre-feet for any period of 10 con- <br />secutive years reckoned in continuing progressive series <br />beginning with the first day of October next succeeding the <br />ratification of this compact. <br /> <br />(e) The States of the upper division shall not <br />withhold water, and the States of the lower division shall <br />not reguire the delivery of water which cannot reasonably be <br />applied to domestic and agricultural uses. <br /> <br />(f) Further equitable apportionment of the beneficial <br />uses of the waters of the Colorado River system unapportioned <br />by paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) may be made in the manner <br />provided in paragraph (g) at any time after October I, 1963, <br />if and when either basin shall have reached its total bene- <br />ficial consumptive use as set out in paragraphs (a) and (b). <br /> <br />(g) In the event of a desire for a further apportionment <br />as provided in paragraph (f) any two signatory States, acting <br />through their governors, may give joint notice of such desire <br />to the governors of the other signatory States and to the <br />President of the United States of America, and it shall be the <br />duty of the governors of the signatory States and of the <br />President of the United States of America forthwith to appoint <br />representatives, whose>duty it shall be to divide and apportion <br />equitably between the upper basin and the lower basin the <br />beneficial use of the unapportioned water of the Colorado River <br />system as mentioned in paragraph (f), subject to the legislative <br />ratification of the signatory States and the Congress of the <br />United States of America. <br /> <br />3 <br />