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<br />, <br /> <br />1\.s a result of the negotiations among the States, it was <br /> <br />agreed that an interstate . compact would be the best means for = <br /> tv <br />establishing an equitable apportionment of the water and protcc- -.J <br /> i'-' <br />tion of the Upper Basin. Prior to that time, an interstate c~m- <br /> <br />pact had never been used for the allocation of the waters of an <br />interstate stream. Congress consented to the negotiations by <br /> <br />lcgislation cnacted in ^ugust 1921 (42 Sta~. 171) and the Colorado <br />River Compact Con~ission convened for its first meeting in January <br />1922. Herbert Hoover, then Secretary of Commerce, v,as appointed <br /> <br />as Pederal representative and Chairman of the Commission. The <br /> <br />Conuuission held 27 meetings befOre reaching a final agreement on <br /> <br />the Compact which was signed in Sante Fe, N. Mex., on November 24, <br /> <br />1922. <br /> <br />The Compact has several main provisions:-- <br /> <br />1. It divides the Colorado River Basin into two <br /> <br />parts-Lower and Upper Basins. <br /> <br />2. It apporti?ns from the Colorado River system, in <br />perpetuity, 7,500,000 acr~-feet of water a year to <br /> <br />each of the two Basins for beneficial comsumptive <br /> <br />use. <br /> <br />3. It authorizes the Lower Basin to increase its <br /> <br />beneficial consumptive use by 1 million acre-feet <br /> <br />a year. <br /> <br />\ <br /> <br />4. It provides that if (as has proved to be the <br />case) the United States recognizes the right of <br /> <br />Mexico to a share of the waters of the Colorado, <br /> <br />that share shall first come out of water surplus to <br /> <br /><1 <br /> <br />. . <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />.lO-. .;, <br />