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<br />. <br /> <br />001834 <br /> <br />j <br /> <br />,2,:. <br /> <br />EXCERPT FROM <br />HEARINGS <br />Before The <br />SUBCOMMITTEE. ON <br />IRRlGA'l'ION Ai'lIJ R.ECLAMATION <br />of the <br />COMMITTEE ON <br />INTER~OR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS <br />UNITED ST2\TES SENATE <br />Eighty-Fourth Congress <br />First Session <br />on <br /> <br />S. 500 <br /> <br />A Bill to Authorize the Secretary of the. Interior to Construct, <br />Operate, and Maintain the Colorado River storage project <br />and Participating Projects, and For Other purposes <br /> <br />February 28, March I, 2, 3, 4 and 5, 1955 <br /> <br />STATEMENT OF ELMER BENNETT, LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL FOR THE DEPARTMENT <br />OF THE IN'l'ElUOR <br /> <br />MIl~ BENNETT. My name is Elmer Bennett. r am legislative counsel <br />for the Department of the Interior. <br /> <br />The purpose of the statement, as I understood Senator Anderson's <br />request, is to deal specifically with those features of the December <br />20 statement of Governor Johnson of Coloiado which bear upon the <br />legislation before this committee. <br /> <br />In the course of the discussion this afternoon, so far as the <br />department is concerned, I wish to make it clear that there were many <br />implications and discussions which involved differences of points of <br />view on priorities of apportionments of water under the compact which <br />in our judgment, are not material to this bill. <br /> <br />Those are now involved in litigation between Arizona and Califor- <br />nia, particularly if in its wisdom the Supreme Court should finally <br />order the joining of the upper basin States in the litigation there. <br />The only questions which bear upon this bill in our judgment are those <br />which Senator Johnson puts this way: <br />