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<br />. -, -- - ---- <br /> <br />10. The Colorado River Compact was negotiated in 1922 under authority of the <br /> <br />Act of Aug. 19, 1921, ch. 72, 42 Stat. 171. It was approved by Congress <br /> <br />in Sec. 13(a) of the Boulder Canyon Project Act of 1928, 45 Stat. 1064, <br />43 U.S.C. Sec. 6171. It was proclaimed by President Hoover On June 25, <br />1929, 46 Stat. 3000. See Ray Layman Wilbur & Northcutt Ely, The Hoover <br />Dam Documents, H.R. Doc. No. 717, BOth Cong., 2d Sess. (Washington, <br /> <br />D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1948), p. 22. <br /> <br />11. The Lower Basin was permitted by Article III(b) to expand uses by no <br /> <br />more than a million acre-feet beyond the 7.5 million acre feet, but no <br /> <br />obligation to deliver the additional water is created. <br /> <br />12. The obligation to Mexico was quantified in the 1944 Treaty with Mexico, <br /> <br /> <br />59 Stat. 1219, T.S. No. 944, February 3, 1944. <br /> <br />-~ <br /> <br />13. Articles 111(a) and (b) of the compact contemplated annual use of 16 <br /> <br />million acre-feet. Article III(c) allowed for further allocation of <br /> <br />river water for Mexico and Article III(f) which provided for later <br /> <br />equitable apportionment of water not otherwise allocated by the compact. <br /> <br />Furthermore, Article 1 makes it clear that the compact signatories <br /> <br />thought they were only making "an apportionment of the use of part of <br /> <br />the water of the Colorado River System ..... (emphasis added). <br /> <br />The compact negotiators proceeded on the assumption that there was <br /> <br />an annual supply in the Colorado River system of some 21 million acre- <br /> <br />feet. Simon H. Rifkind, Reoort of the Special Master, Arizona v. <br /> <br />California, United States Supreme Court, December 5, 1960 (approved in <br /> <br />part, Arizona v. California, 373 U.S. 546 (1903)), p. 17n.50. <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />- 33 - <br />