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23 <br /> 0 <br /> 0 <br /> C) <br /> D. <br /> of the compact, and after all, if the compact does not make <br /> any allooation, I don' t care what you use as a basis of <br /> computation, as a basis of allocations to the respective Z <br /> states, but if it doesn' t make any allooation of water, we <br /> are not doing anything. <br /> Now, ultimately we have to base everything on bene- N' <br /> ficial use, and I don' t see the difficulty, that is what <br /> those laws state-- <br /> MR. PATTERS©N: Perhaps, Henry, I ought to explain <br /> this. If you are asked to define what you mean by consumptive <br /> use or beneficial consumptive use--and that, by the way, is <br /> a question that the Commission on the Republican River Compact <br /> had under discussion and spent most of one day discussing <br /> one time when I was present at one of their hearings, and I <br /> believe that George will agree, after arguing quite diligent- <br /> 1 y they tried to make that Commission decide that where there <br /> is beneficial oonsumptive use they pass it on to future <br /> generations to decide. <br /> When asked the question whether use from a recreation <br /> pond is beneficial consumptive use or not, they said they <br /> didn' t know. A flood control reservoir is water-consuming, <br /> but is it beneficial use? They didn' t know. Some day the <br /> question will arise. <br /> The point I am trying to make, if we would allocate <br /> to District 6? the water that they formerly have diverted <br />