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<br />will dry up and th~ waters pUHPed by the United States \rill be
<br />required to maintain deliveries of 140,000 acre-feet per year
<br />to Hexico via the drain as has been our practice over the years
<br />'!nd as is permitted in Hinute 242.
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<br />In 1964 the. Department of the Interior in pr~culgating the
<br />Routhwest Water Plan proposed the recovery of 22q,000 acre-feat
<br />per year of grolltldHaters in the YUJ:la area. The Hexie".n
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<br />government protested vigorously.
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<br />State Departnent opposition
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<br />developed quickly and Interior abandened.the plan except for
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<br />the developDent of the wells on the Yuma Mesa required to
<br />provide 60,000 acre-feet per year of substitution Haters to
<br />assist in meeting the requirements of Hinute 21t1. ';lithout the
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<br />knol-Iledge of the states, the Hexican governnent moved quic;cly
<br />to undertake the developcont of the San Luis well field;
<br />The Coronittee of Fourteen urged the negotiatinG tean to
<br />make resolution of the problem posed by !.!e:deo I s pumping .a
<br />condition of United States agreecent to a solution of the
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<br />salinity problem. THO alternatives Here available that ,muld
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<br />have left interests of the Basin States as they Here prior to
<br />the initiation of PQ~ping in the San Luis well field and would
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<br />have been without cost to the states. First and nost logical
<br />would have been insistence by. the United Rtates that Hexico
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<br />accept as a char~e against its Treaty allotment all Haters
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<br />draHn fro~ the United States by the San Luis well field.
<br />Failing this I the J.lexican govermnent "/Quld have the option of
<br />limiting the alO1ount of 1<ater punped annuall, at the Ran Luis
<br />1<011 field to an a:"ount Hhich the blQ goverw.ents ,.;oUld agree
<br />"ould have a negligible inpact on U. G. 'later supplios~
<br />The Hexican government, "le are told, \muld not neEotiate
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<br />on the basis of either of these tHO al terna ti ves.
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<br />Point 5 of
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<br />llinute 242 siDpl)' allOllS the .Unite" States to resort to
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