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26 <br /> 0 <br /> 0 <br /> c <br /> 0 <br /> rn <br /> 0 <br /> measured as the quantity you divert, whether you actually =' <br /> use that exact amount upon the plants or not. It is neoes- <br /> sary diversion to get the soil and plants down to benefi- Z <br /> cially grow crops. Now, if you put in the words consumptive <br /> 0 <br /> use, meaning that the water incident to that diversion you <br /> oonsume in the sense of going back into the reservoir and not Nj <br /> returning to the river. The word oonsumptive -y©u only <br /> Consume part of the water ,you divert the return flow. get=go .o- <br /> rado River Compact the term beneficial oonsumptive use is the <br /> allocations to the upper and lower basins, while in the com- <br /> pact between the Secretary of the Interior and the states <br /> and the agencies of California, they have proceeded to -define <br /> what they think the Government and the State of California <br /> think that term beneficial consumptive use means and how it <br /> shall be measured, by saying that it is the difference between <br /> the diversions and the returns. Now, that has caught up <br /> with them, and they want to renege that definition. <br /> The Reclamation Bureau now come up with what they <br /> say is not an interpretation of the compact, but it is a <br /> mass of figures that are comparable with the figures in the <br /> oompaot. The Bureau palls their figures the-- <br /> CHAIRMAN KRAMER: May I interrupt? At the outset <br /> you felt your remarks were not directly connected with the <br /> Federal Power Commission but went beyond that, and I reoog-- <br /> nize that. I wonder if for the moment and for the purpose <br />