9367 ‎(3)‎

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9367
• Author: Colorado Water Workshop.
• Title: Proceedings
• USFW Year: 1992.
• USFW - Doc Type: Colorado Water Workshop July 22-24, 1992.
• Copyright Material: NO

Nevada
New Mexico
utah
Wyoming

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G. Colorado River Basin Project Act
Arizona v. California led directly to the Col rado River
Basin Project Act of 1968, 43 U.S.C. 11501 et _. (1976).

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The day after the Supreme Court's decision w~s issued,
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Arizona's. .Senators submitted a bill to authorize he Central

authorized the CAP at a projected cost of $1.395

Act

Arizona Project. The Colorado River Basin

and

it promised much more.
Congress recognized that the ColQr~do River $ystem con-
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tained too little water to satisfy the Mexican wtter Treaty
burden and accommodate the growing needs of th~ Upper and
Lower Basins. It concluded that "there can be no lasting
solution to the water problems and disputes of th states of
the Colorado River Basin without the additi

water."32 The water of the River required auqm
about 2.5 m. a. f., and without it, "One of Americ
growing,regions -- the Colorado River Basin -- i in danger
of economic stagnation. "33 Congress directed th Secretary

of the Interior to investigate auqmentation of the
43 U.S.C. 11511, primarily by importation from 0
or desalinization. However, at the insistence
Henry Jackson and other representatives of the
suspended the examination of water importation
until 1978 (and subsequently extended the suspensi

sibilities

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