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<br />0J22J4 <br /> <br />30 <br /> <br />ARIZONA v. CALIFORNIA. <br /> <br />of the Colorado River, providing for storage and for the <br />delivery of the stored waters thereof for reclamation of <br />public lands and other beneficial uses . . . ," and gener- <br />ating electrical power. The whole point of the Act was <br />to replace the erratic, undependable, often destructive <br />natural flow of the Colorado with the regular, dependable <br />release of waters conserved and stored by the project. <br />Having undertaken this beneficial project, Congress, in <br />several provisions of the Act, made it clear that no one <br />should use mainstream waters save in strict compliance <br />with the scheme set up by the Act. Section 5 authorized <br />the Secretary "under such general regulations as he may <br />prescribe, to contract for the storage of water in said <br />reservoir and for the delivery thereof at such points on the <br />river . . . as may be agreed upon, for irrigation and <br />domestic uses . . .." To emphasize that water could <br />be obtained from the Secretary alone, S 5 further declared, <br />"No person shall have or be entitled to have the use for <br />any purpose of the water stored as aforesaid except by <br />contract made as herein stated." The supremacy given <br />the Secretary's contracts was made clear in S 8 (b) of the <br />Act, which provided that, while the Lower Basin States <br />were free to negotiate a compact dividing the waters, such <br />a compact if made and approved after January 1, 1929, <br />was to be "subject to all contracts, if any, made by the <br />Secretary of the Interior under section 5" before Congress <br />approved the compact. <br />These several provisions, even without legislative his- <br />tory, are persuasive that Congress intended the Secre- <br />tary of the Interior, through his S 5 contracts, both to <br />carry out the allocation of the waters of the main Colo- <br />rado River among the Lower Basin States and to decide <br />which users within each State would get water. The gen- <br />eral authority to make contracts normally includes the <br />power to choose with whom and upon what terms the <br />contracts will be made. When Congress in an Act grants <br />