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<br />. 277 <br /> <br />CIJJ1..m.Jili\N HOOVII'R: YO'Q might make it read then, "claims, if any, of riGhts <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />by users of water in the Lower Basin against users or appropriators of .,-ater <br /> <br />in the Upper Basin." That is no admission. <br /> <br />JUDGE 'sLOAN: Would it tone it dovm a little if you put in "all claims: <br /> <br />of rlghts that may be asserted by appropriators in the Lower Basin against <br /> <br />the appropriators in the Upper Basin shall be restricted Trholly to the Lower <br /> <br />Basin;, If et.c., "may be asserted. t1 <br /> <br />JUDGE D,\VIS: I will 1Tithdrarr the sugEGstion since there seems to be so <br /> <br />much opposition to it. <br /> <br />t:I-r,\llUIAN HUOV.-GR then dictated the paragraph in discussion. It was <br /> <br />type"l;r'itten, and read as follows:. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />U.Present perfected rights to the beneficial use. of naters of the <br />Colorado River System are .,mimpaited by this compact. Whenever storage of a <br />capacity of 5,000,000 acre feet s~all .have been provided on the main Colorado <br />River for the benefit of the Loyrer Basin, then claims; if a.rty, of rights by <br />appropriators or users of "water L.tl the,..Loner Basin against appropriators or <br />users: of water in the Upper Basin, shall attach to and be satisfied from the <br />water: so stored out .01' the apportionment to the Lm,er Basin in Article III. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />"All other riGhts to beneficial.vse of waters shall be satisfied solely <br />from the water apportioned to that Basin in Yfhich they are situate ,II <br /> <br />bffi\llU~\N HOOVER: Are there any further suggestions on that paragraph? <br /> <br />MR. C,\LDWELL: I would like to suggest, 1.;r.Chairman, that looking at <br /> <br />the last tvlO lines in the first paragraph "Basin against appropriators or <br /> <br />users of water in the Upper Basin shall attaeh to and be satisfied from the <br /> <br />water so stored out of the apportionment to the Loner Basin in Article 111.'" <br /> <br />Cut out the "~-rater so stored out of the apportionment to the Lower Basin." <br /> <br />JUDGE SLOAN: Iilay I ask if the intont by the use of the nord "claim" <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />is to'cover asserted claims or merely valid claims. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />MR. EMERSON: Claims, if any. <br /> <br />JUDGE SLOAN: Of course, there may be asserted clauns, thGn the word <br /> <br />"attach" would hardly be prop.er. If you are dealinG Hith perfected riGhts; <br /> <br />, <br />II <br />