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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />(k) "Decree" means the Decree sntered March 9, 1964, by the <br />United States Supreme Court in Arizona v. California, as supplemented or <br />amended, which establishes certain decreed water rights within the Lower <br />Colorado River Basin and recognizes the authority of the Secretary to <br />allocate, contract for, and administer water entitlements in the Lower <br /> <br />Basin. <br /> <br />(1) "Department" means the United States Department of the <br />Interior. <br /> <br />(m) "Diversions" means waters diverted by gravity or pumped from <br />the mainstream of the Colorado River, including water diverted from <br />reservoirs or from aquifers fed by the Colorado River. <br /> <br />(n) "Domestic use" means the use of mainstream water for <br />household, stock, municipal, mining, milling, industrial, and other like <br />purposes but excludes hydroelectric power generation. <br /> <br />(0) "Entitlement" means a right to divert and beneficially <br />consume Colorado River water pursuant to contract with the Secretary in <br />compliance with Article II(B)(5) of the Decree. This includes all <br />present perfected rights except those for Federal establishments. <br />Reservations of mainstream water for use by Federal establishments are <br />also entitlements but, in accordance with Article II(D) of the Decree, <br />Federal establishments are subject neither to the requirement for a <br />contract with the Secretary nor the requirement that water must be put <br />to beneficial consumptive use. <br /> <br />(p) "Federal establishment" means a Federal entity identified by <br />Article II (D) of the Decree or otherwise recognized by the Secretary as <br />eligible for beneficial use of Colorado River water. <br /> <br />6 <br />