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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />24 <br /> <br />the tables, and gave it up in despair. As desirable as it may be to <br />allocate definite amounts to the different states, I think it quite an <br />impossible task at this time. <br /> <br />Secretary Hoover: <br />(firmly takes hold of discussion) <br />I suggest, Mr. Norviel, that we abandon the discussion of <br />apportionment based on acreage or any other individual state by state <br />apportionment. <br /> <br />Mr. Norviel: <br />(resigned tone of voice) <br />I have gotten away from that. <br /> <br />Secretary Hoover: <br />(with a hint of thank you to the Arizonan) <br />Then we come to whether it is possible to make a division by <br />groups of states. <br /> <br />Mr. Norviel: <br />(not wanting to seem like he is giving up) <br />The same question comes up regarding the administration of the <br />water. <br /> <br />Secretary Hoover: <br />In what sense do you think it has to be administered if we just <br />confine it to a division at Lee's Ferry? <br /> <br />Mr. Norviel: <br />(focusing on bottom line of guaranteed water delivery to Lower Basin) <br />Well, under Mr. Carpenter's plan, as he suggests an average of <br />10 years, this year there might be an abundance of water and he might <br />send 30 million acre-feet. That would satisfy for the next five or six <br />years, and he wouldn't have to send down any additional water. So <br />how it would be administered I can hardly understand. In dry years <br />when everybody needs water, the upper basin could hold back all of it. <br /> <br />24 <br />