WSP08505

• File Number: 8103.400
• Description: Arkansas River Compact Administration - Article VIII Investigations
• Basin: Arkansas
• Date: 4/6/1949
• Author: Hans Kramer
• Title: Report to Congress of the United States on Proposed Arkansas River Compact
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

ARKANSAS RIVER COMPACT

The State of Colorado and the State of Kansas, parties signatory to this

Compact (hereinafter referred to as "Colorado" and' 'Kansas" I respectively, or

individually as a "State", or collectively as the "States") having resolved to con-

elude a compact with respect to the waters of the Arkansas River, and being moved

by considerations of interstate comity, having appointed commissioners as follows:

Henry C. Vidal, Gail L, Ireland, and Harry B,
Mendenhall, for Colorado; and George S, Knapp,
Edward F, Arn, William E Leavitt, and Roland
H, Tate, for K.ansas;

and the consent of the Congress of the United States to negotiate and enter into an

interstate compact not later than January 1, 1950, having been granted by Public

Law 34, 79th Congress, 1st Session, and pursuant thereto the President having

designated Hans Kramer as the representative of the United States, the said com-

missioners for Colorado and Kansas, after negotiations participated in by the repre-

sentative of the United States, have agreed as follows:

AR TICLE I

The major purposes of this Compact are to:

A. Settle existing disputes and remove causes of future controversy be-

tween the States of Colorado and Kansas, and betwe'en citizens of one and citizens

of the other State, concerning the waters of the Arkansas River and their control,

conservation and utilization for irrigation and other beneficial purposes,

B. Equitably divide and apportion between the States of Colorado and Kan-

sas the \vaters of the Arkansas River and their utilization as well as the benefits

arising from the construction, operation and maintenance by the United States of

John Martin Reservoir Project for water conservation purposes.