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<br />260 <br /> <br />(\0) ill addition to tho apportionment in paragraph (a), the Lower <br />Basin is hereby given the rir,ht to increase its beneficial consumptive. <br />use of such waters by one million acre feet per a,nnum. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />(c) If, a6 a matter of international comity, the United States of <br />America shall hereafter recognize in the United Statos of Mexico any right <br />to the uso of any waters ef the Colorado River System, such whters shall <br />be supplied first from the waters which are surplus over .and above the <br />aggregate of the quantihes specified in paragraphs (a) and (b); and if <br />sueh surplus shall prove insufficient for this purpose, then the burden of <br />such dOficiency shall be equally borne by,tho Upper Basin and the Lower <br />Basin, and whenever necessary the States ef the l1jJper Division shall deliver <br />at Lee Ferry water to supply one-half of the defkiency se reco~ni~ed in <br />addition to that provided in paragraph (d). <br /> <br />/If <br /> <br />(d) The States of the Uppor Division 1'Iill not cause the' florr of the <br />river at Lee Ferry te bo depleted belo1'l an aggregate of' 75,000,000 acro <br />feet for any period of ten consecutive years reclwned in continuing pro- <br />gres$ive serios begiiming rri th the first day of July next succeedinG the' . <br />ratification of this compact. <br /> <br />(e) The Statos of the Upper Division shall not withhold water, and' <br />the states of the Lower Division shall not requir'e the delivery of water, <br />which cannot reasonably be applied to domestic and agricultural uses. <br /> <br />(f) Further equitable apporhonment of the beneficial uses of' the <br />waters of the Colorado River Syst0m unapportionod by paragraphs (a), (b) <br />and (c) may be made in'the manner provided in par'agraph (g) at any time <br />after July fi.rst, 1963, if and whel\ either Basm [shall have reached its <br />total beneficial consumptive uso as set out in paragraphs (a) and (b). <br /> <br />(g) In tho ovent of a desire for a furthorapporhonmont as provided <br />in paragraph (f) any two signatory states, acting through their Govornors, <br />may give joint notice of such desire to the Governors of the othor <br />signatory States and ,to Tho President of the United States of ~meriea,. <br />and it shall be the duty of tho Governors of the ,signatory states and of <br />The President of the Unitod States of Americaforthriith to' appoint. repres- <br />entatives, whose duty it shall be to divi,de and apportion equHably " <br />between thO UpporBasin and Lower Basin thebenoficiaJ. use of the un- <br />apportioned water of the Colorado River System as described in paragraph (f), <br />Subject to the legislative ratification of the sIgnatory states and tho' <br />Congross of the United States of America," ' <br /> <br />... <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />II <br /> <br />. <br />