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<br />283 <br /> <br />(The draft was then read as fOllows:) <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />"Present perfected riiShts to thebeneficiai. use of waters of the' Colorado <br />River System are unimpaired by this compact. Whenever storage of a cllpacity <br />of 5,000,000 acre feet shall have been provided' on the main Colorado Rj.ver <br />for the benefit of the LOYier Basin, then claims, if any, of rights by <br />appropriators Gr users of Yiater in the Lcwer Basin aGainst appropriators or <br />users of water in the Upper Basin shall attach to and be ,satisfied from the <br />water so stored. ' <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />"All other rights to beneficial use of Haters shall be satisfied solely <br />from the Hater apportioned to that Basin in which they p.re situate." <br /> <br />'MH. CALDrlELL: IIr. Chairman, I am not sati,sfied on the point here. It <br /> <br />might be better if I could be satisfied on it before yre go to the question ,of <br /> <br />voting, rather than to have me vote "no" at that time. I am not interested <br /> <br />in the storage in th8 Lower Hiver. All I am jnterested in is the capacity <br /> <br />which is provided down th8re. I thin!, this paragraph should read that "when <br /> <br />storage capacity of 5,000,000 acre feet shall have been provided on the J:lain <br /> <br />-- <br /> <br />Colorado River for or running to the benefit of the Lower J;lasin, then Claims, <br /> <br />if ary, of rights by appropriators or users of water in the Lower Basin against <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />appropriators or users of water, in the Upper Basin shall attach to and be <br /> <br />satisfied from the apportionment to the Lower Basin in Artic18 III." <br /> <br />Now they can store it or do anything they want to with it but th8 <br /> <br />capacity is th8re. But what Tie want to do is attach it to ,th8 apportionm8nt. <br /> <br />That'may be another tempest in a teapot but that is what I think. The, only <br /> <br />anSl7er to my suggestion that I made a TThile ago on th8t proposition nas ,thd <br /> <br />somo legal opinion had been rendered to the effect that it nas more sat is- <br /> <br />factory TTith that in. <br /> <br />I.m. CARPENTER: rle should cut out the nards "of a." <br /> <br />CHAml.L\N HOOVEi1: rfeH, of course, I yras rathe" impressed nUh the <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />leGal opinion given that we, ,rere sotting up something hero that s";r8ngthened <br /> <br /> <br />the legal defense of the Upper statos against claims of the LOTTer :Jasin,. If <br /> <br /> <br />that has no validity, I haven't ~ny opi,nion on it at all) but Vlhcm you sot up <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />another source for .rater in order to satisfy an appropriator, it ought to be <br /> <br />j <br />