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<br /> <br />yet its major purpose was to provide storage to meet. the <br /> <br /> <br />requirements and priorities of the Colorado River Compact. <br /> <br /> <br />The Galloway Group has indicated that the Upper Basin <br /> <br /> <br />States could protect their rights under the Colorado River <br /> <br /> <br />Compact by entering into agreements with Galloway to furnish <br /> <br /> <br />water to California. Protection of Upper Basin rights is one of <br /> <br /> <br />the basic purposes of the Compact and is covered by the language <br /> <br /> <br />of the Compact, which apportions "in perpetuity" 7,500.000 <br /> <br /> <br />acre-feet of water per annum to both the Upper Basin and the <br /> <br /> <br />Lower Basin. In addition, the Upper Basin Compact provides that <br /> <br /> <br />"the failure of any state to use the water, or any part thereof, <br /> <br /> <br />the use of which is apportioned to it under the terms of this <br /> <br /> <br />Compact, shall not constitute a relinquishment of the right to <br /> <br /> <br />such use to the Lower Basin or to any other state, nor shall it <br /> <br /> <br />constitute a forfeiture or abandonment of the rights to such <br /> <br /> <br />use." <br /> <br />To ensure that the additional 300,000 tD 500,000 <br /> <br /> <br />acre-feet per year Df water of the Agreement is in fact <br /> <br /> <br />available at Lake Havasu could require that the obligation to <br /> <br /> <br />release 75,000,000 acre-feet every 10 years at Lee Ferry be <br /> <br /> <br />increased. If it is found necessary to increase that figure, an <br /> <br /> <br />amendment of the Compact would be required. and this would <br /> <br /> <br />involve the approval of the legislatures of the seven states and <br /> <br /> <br />the consent of the Congress. Some of the states that would have <br /> <br />8 . <br /> <br />