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<br />DRAFT. <br /> <br />.water, for any period of five consecutive <br />years, reckoned in continuing progressive <br />series, beginning with the first year of <br />transmountain diversion of water, shall be <br />transported from the watershed of any and all <br />rivers subj ect to the Colorado River Compact <br />and the Boulder Canon Act. (U.S.C. Title 43, <br />Sections 617 to 617-t) by all districts <br />organized or to be organized under this Act, <br />collectively, until such time as ,ia division <br />of water allocated to the several upper basin <br />states under said Compact has been made under <br />ag reemen t between sa id sta tes, or otherwise <br />determined.64 <br /> <br />Since the CBT project was expected to divert 320,000 acre-feet, <br /> <br />this provision effectively precl uded <br /> <br />any .other <br />I <br /> <br />transmountain <br /> <br />diversions out of the Colorado River basin by other conservancy <br /> <br />districts. <br /> <br />2. <br /> <br />The Law. <br /> <br />After six years of discussion and negotia- <br /> <br />tion, the legislature removed this restriction and replaced it <br /> <br />with the following provision that is still the law today: <br /> <br />provided, however, that any works or <br />facilities planned and .designed for the <br />exportation of water from the natural basin <br />of the Colorado River and its tributaries in <br />Colorado, by any district created under this <br />Act, shall be subject to the provisions of <br />the Colorado River Compact and the Boulder <br />Canyon project Act, as amended; that any such <br />works or facilities shall be designed, <br />constructed and operated in such a manner <br />that the present appropriations of water, and <br />in addition thereto prospective uses of water <br />for irrigation and other beneficial <br />consumptive-use purposes, including consump- <br />tive .uses for domestic, mining, and industri- <br />al purposes, within the natural basin of the <br />Colorado RIver in the State of Colorado, from <br />which water is exported, will not be impaired <br /> <br />64Ch.266 ~13, 1937 Colo. Sess. Laws 1309, 1325. <br /> <br />27 <br />