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<br /> <br />... <br />)") <br />C <br />:\J <br />:::> <br /> <br />Preface <br />TO "UPDATING THE HOOVER DAM DOCUMENTS" <br /> <br />The first edition of the "Hoover Dam Contracts" was published in February 1933. It was revised as "The <br />Hoover Dam Documents" in November 1948 by Ray Lyman Wilbur and Northcutt Ely. <br />This volume, ,entitled "Updating the Hoover Dam Documents, 1978" recounts the major events since 1948 <br />which, together with the matters described in the 1933 and 1948 editions. constitute what is referred to as "The <br />Law of the River." Its preparation was proposed to the Department of the Interior by the Lower Basin States and <br />adopted by the Department. <br />The background of the documents included herein is described in Part l. The texts of the documents are in- <br />cluded in the Appendix in Part II. <br /> <br />Milton N. Nathanson <br /> <br />March 1978 <br />