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L <br />Those provisions of Minute No. 242 which required construction of works or other measures <br />requiring expenditures of funds were included in Public Law 93 -320, the Colorado River Basin <br />Salinity Control Act, enacted June 24, 1974. Title I of this Act authorized construction of <br />salinity control measures downstream of Imperial Dam and makes the replacement of bypass <br />and reject waters a Federal obligation. <br />Studies initiated after the Public Law 93 -320 was enacted brought out the fact that some of the <br />earlier preliminary work was insufficient and that several adjustments to the original act were <br />r needed. The Department of the Interior recommended appropriate legislation which was <br />t <br />i <br />r <br />enacted as Public Law 96 -336 on September 4, 1980. <br />In Summary, water deliveries to Mexico are based on these four legal documents (named above) <br />and as follows: <br />• The 1944 USA - Mexico Treaty for the Utilization of Colorado River Water. <br />• Minute No. 242 of the International Boundary and Water Commission, approved <br />and ratified in 1973. <br />• Public Law 93 -320, the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act, approved and <br />ratified June 1974. <br />• Public Law 96 -336 enacted September 4, 1980. <br />Allocations of water to the Colorado River Basin States north of the International Boundary, are <br />based, for the most part, on the Colorado River Compact of 1922 and the law suit Arizona vs. <br />California filed in 1952 and decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1963. The allocations to the <br />3 Carollo Black & Veatch <br />