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<br />OJ1236 <br />BLACK CANYON INFORMATION PAPI;R <br /> <br />Oct. 2000 <br /> <br />Attachment A <br />Additional Information from Legislation <br /> <br />Colorado River Compact: <br />The Compact covers the Colorado River system including the tributaries within the United States. <br /> <br />The Upper Basin states were defined as parts of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and <br />Wyoming which were within and from which waters naturally drain into the Colorado River <br />System above Lee Ferry. <br /> <br />The Lower Basin states included those parts of the States of Arizona, California, Nevada, New <br />Mexico, and Utah which were within and from which waters naturally drain into the Colorado <br />River System below Lee Ferry. <br /> <br />"Domestic Use" is defined as household, stock, municipal, mining, milling, industrial and other <br />like purposes, but specifically excluded power generation. <br /> <br />Article I states the intent to ".., secure the expeditious agricultural and industrial development of <br />the Colorado River Basin, the storage of its waters, and the protection of life and property from <br />floods." <br /> <br />The Compact in Article ill apportions in perpetuity to the Upper Basin and to the Lower Basin <br />the exclusive beneficial consumptive use of7,500,000 acre feet of water per year for each Basin <br />and included all water necessary to supply existing rights. <br /> <br />Article IIT(d) provides that the Upper Basin states must provide an aggregate of 75,000,000 acre <br />feet of water in any period often consecutive years beginning with October 1, 1929, <br /> <br />In Article IV(b) the waters of the Colorado River may be impounded and used for hydropower <br />generation but that use is subservient to use of water for agricultural and domestic purposes. The <br />dominant purposes for use of Colorado River are agricultural and domestic purposes. <br /> <br />In Article IV(e) recognizes the states rights to control the regulation, appropriation, use and <br />distribution of the water within their boundaries, <br /> <br />Boulder Canyon Project Act: <br />Section 13(b) states: "The rights of the United States in or to waters of the Colorado River and its <br />tributaries howsoever claimed or acquired, as well as the rights of those claiming under the United <br />States, shall be subject to and controlled by said Colorado River compact." <br /> <br />A-2 <br /> <br />/ <br />