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<br />001529 <br /> <br />t{~!Ji <br /> <br />relations require the 1922 plan be revised. <br /> <br />;",,,. <br /> <br />iii <br /> <br />It' <br /> <br />I am here today representing the Ten Tribes of the Colorado <br />River Basin Tribes Partnership. However, the views I set forth in <br />this paper are my own. please do not attribute anything foolish in <br />this paper to either the Ten Tribes or my esteemed colleagues. The <br />views set forth here represent one person's effort to put the <br />potential of interstate tribal water leasing of Colorado River <br />water in an historical perspective. It is my purpose to show that <br />tribal leasing represents an overdue response to changing federal <br />policies as well as new regional realities. <br /> <br />II. The 1922 Colorado Compact Plan Was to Equitablv Develop the <br />Waters of Each Basin. <br /> <br />By 1922, the states of the Lower Basin and the federal <br />government had agreed to a plan for massive storage and flood <br />control on the Colorado River and a canal built totally in the <br />united states to divert Colorado River waters to the farms and <br />emerging cities of Southern California. Representatives of the <br />Lower Basin states began to introduce bills in Congress to provide <br />for construction of an All-American Canal and a flood control <br />structure at Boulder Canyon. The storage structure was not only <br />for flood protection and irrigation development in the Lo~er Basin, <br />but also so junior appropriators in the Upper Basin could develop <br />their waters over time, given the fact that much of the unregulated <br /> <br />3 <br />