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m <br /> 0 <br /> O <br /> 36 m <br /> MR. IMAM): It might show the intent of the H <br /> commission. <br /> z <br /> (Disoussion off the reoord. ) <br /> CRAIRMAM IRAMER: Again, gentlemen, attempting to 0 <br /> crystallise this discussion, I an taking up the suggestion N <br /> just made by Mr. Ireland. We have defined tentatively in <br /> Artiole III-A the term 'waters of the Arkansas Rivers as <br /> meaning the waters originating in the natural drainage <br /> basin of the Arkansas River upstream from Btateline and fto` <br /> water brought into the Arkansas River basin from other <br /> river basins. <br /> In the draft of Artiole YI-B we use the term "water." <br /> I think chronologically this article was conoeived before <br /> we had perfected the definition of the term "waters of <br /> the Arkansas River. " But be that as it may, one of the <br /> elements of this problem seems to be whether the waters <br /> that get into the Frontier Canal by whatever hook or crook <br /> --,whether they are public waters, the waters of the Arkan- <br /> sas River. It seems to be the conoensus of this commission <br /> irrespective of the contractual details involved, that <br /> the origin of that water is in the Arkansas basin, and <br /> that it is, under our conoept of the definition of the <br /> waters of the Arkansas River, strictly such water. <br /> Therefore, the suggestion made by Mr. Ireland strikes <br />