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<br />267 <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />Third Part <br />25th lIeeting, <br />MR, EMERSON: Mr, Chairman, that last par&graph in tho draft we ne" <br /> <br /> <br />have ulfder consideration is to make these rights effective 1Then seven and a <br /> <br /> <br />half million acre H,ot havo ooon stored.' <br /> <br /> <br />1m, HOOVER: I should think they could probably be satis:Cied with five <br /> <br /> <br />million, They don't "ant the pact d01m there at 0].1 to go into force, but' <br /> <br /> <br />T don 't soe that you can limit this pact until seven and a half million arc <br /> <br /> <br />stored~ Otherwise the quarrel Trill go on and on' __ <br /> <br /> <br />M;j. suggestion of this pact Trould be "( a) Rights to tho use of waters for <br /> <br />benefioial <br /> <br />Rights now enjoyed to' the wators of the Colorado River shall be <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />unimpaired by this compact, <br />(b) When works of a capacity sufficient to store 5,000,000 acre foot <br />of water have been constructed on the mnll1 Colorado River within or for the <br />benefit: of tho Loner Basin,thon any claims for rights by holders in the <br />Lower Basjn against usors of water :Lntho Uppor Basin, shall bo transferred <br />to nator so storod and to the apportionment as set out in Artielo III hereof ," <br />nIl,. DAVIS: The very riords thathavo boon causinG tho troublo is <br />lIrights..11 We havo boon having difficulty Trith vested rights. rIo tnought <br />by using the Tiords !Ibon.oficial 'usaf! 170 '"\r'fould 'got array frorri tho .Tiord "rights". <br /> <br /> <br />I think' you could sta.rt the sentence with "Tho boneficial use" and you would <br /> <br /> <br />porhaps obviate any discussion along that lIDO, You m:Lcht say "all berio- <br /> <br /> <br />ficial use" or somothing like that~ <br /> <br /> <br />MR; HOOVER: VIcll, just to get somothing on papor:' "All beneficial use <br /> <br /> <br />of waters non enjoyed-m the Colorado River System shall be unimpaired by <br /> <br /> <br />this compact. Whon VIOTks of a ce.pacity sufficient to store 5,000,000 acre <br /> <br /> <br />foet of:water havo boop cons~ructod on tho main Colorado River'withL~ or for <br /> <br /> <br />tho bonefit of tho LOY/er Basin, then any claims for rights by holdors in the <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />II <br /> <br />iii <br />