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Division 2. .We already won the new law share <br />case folks have gone with us and I <br />was the one who lost the reserved rights. The <br />Supreme Court reversed its qualifications without any <br />authority of Congress whatsoever, that the Winters <br />Doctrine prevails, and United State has reserved <br />rights even though the Winters Doctrine applies to <br />Indian's foreign nation, I will make the argument <br />again here, but it is law. The public plans to <br />narrowly define: the United States in the exercise of <br />its rights under the McCarran amendment, so <br />I'm glad that this is out of the bill, We don't want <br />any of this to give to the United States any hopes on <br />which they can ignore the new that we thought we <br />had when we wrote the McCarran amendment. When we <br />wrote the McCarran amendment, we thought we had the <br />United States stopped by interpretation of the <br />compacts. Our compacts are a great protection. The <br />Colorado River Compact divides the water between the <br />upper and lower basin. You have not guaranteed that <br />13 , 000, OCO acre - ..feet in all years -- that was simply a <br />means of a gaining equalization on a mutual statement <br />of fact. Some day you're going to have Colorado <br />River Compact I have a lot I can tell you about <br />that, about the there are a lot of <br />way of _ criteria and changes Under <br />Colorado discrepancy__ those rights could be <br />condemned, even from the State of Colorado, for a <br />higher use, domestic use agriculture so that we <br />forever make for making the river and <br />then There are a number of things I think <br />we Colorado Water Conservation Board to do the <br />permitting or it may be maybe They are not <br />100°, with the water board. They have their problems; <br />they're not going to come here and tell you about <br />them because I've heard about <br />—28— <br />