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<br />s3G9'7 <br /> <br />RUEDl DAM AND m'SERVOlR, COLD, <br /> <br />ber 11, 1948 (Public Law 37, 81st Cong., 1st sess.), and the Colorado <br />River compact of November 24, 19~2 (H. Doc. 605, 67th Cong., 4th <br />sess.). <br />17. The Colorado River Water Conservation District of the State <br />of Colorado shall acqu.il'e. title to storage of water in Ruedi Reservoir <br />and any reservoir constructed in addition thereto, by appropria,te <br />proeee,dmgs in the courts of the State of Colorado. The Southeastern <br />Colorado Water Conservancy District of the State of Colorado shall <br />likewise acquire title. to the water required by the project for di version <br />to the Arkansas Valley. The Secretary of the Interior shall at a,ny <br />time after the authorization of the project have the, option to obtain <br />01' require the transfer to the United States of auy and all rights <br />initiated or acquired by appropriation as herein set forth: P,'ovided, <br />howaer, That the rights so taken shall be subject to a beneficial use <br />of such water fiS may- be provided in the repa.yment cont.ract or con- <br />tracts, and subjec.t to a.ll the. operating pr1l1ciples herein set forth. <br />18. No transmollnt.:Lin diversion of water shall ever be ma.de through <br />the collect.ion and diversion S)'St.eJll of t.he Fl'yingpan-Arkansas project <br />in exeess of the qua.ntitative limitat.iolls and condjtions established <br />by tlus document: Pruvided, lwwe-vf.)" That when, tUlder the l~Lws of <br />the State of Colomdo, there may bo additional water available for <br />such collection and di,'el'sion which is not at the t.ime of diversion <br />required for beneficinl use: in westerll Colorado or for fillU10" interstate <br />water compact a.greements, then such water may be (:ofiected and <br />diverted for iJenet-icia.lllHe in t.he Ark:lnsas Valley: Provided, further, <br />That such additiona.l diversion shall only be llUlde with the mutual <br />consent of each of the following agencies of the State of Colorado, <br />to wit: the Colorado 'Vater Conservation Boa.rd, t.he Southwestern <br />'Water Conservation District., the Colorado River 1-Vater ConservO-- <br />tion District, a.nd the Southcastern. Colorado "Tater Conscrvancy <br />District. <br />llJ. To a.ssure project operation in conformity with the operating <br />principle heret.ofore st.ated, to provide a mea.ns for the collection and <br />interchange of infonnation ,t.I1U to prO\ride a. luethod for t.he COIl- <br />tinned study of project operations to the end that, if the st<lted <br />operating principles Jnay be improved upon~ recommendations for <br />changes ma.y be made t.o the cont.racting part.ies, a eommission shall <br />be created in an appropriate ma.nner to be. composed of one, repre- <br />senta.t.iv.e of Ute Sout,heaHtern Colora..do 'Vater Conservancy District, <br />one representM.ive of the Colorado River 'Vltter Conservat.ion Dis- <br />trict, two representatives of the Unitr.d States, and one repl'esentati\-e <br />of the St.ale of ('0101',,,,10 appointed by the CoJorado Water Conser- <br />Va.tiOll Boa.rd after consultation witlI the Colorado (Tame and Fish <br />Commis.':iion. The poW'ers of slwh commission Hha.ll be limited to the <br />collect,ion of data., the TIluking of findings of fact, and t.he suggestion <br />of changes in operating principles. <br />These openltillg principles shaH Le deeme(l to haTe amended and <br />t.a.ke the place of tJlOse operating principles signed anu execut.ed on <br />April 30, 105D. These operating principles shan be "nel do const.i- <br />tute It contract between thE'. Sigll:ltOl')-' pa.rt.ics, amI shall inure to the <br />benefit of and shall be and rel1lltin binding IIjJon s,tid p"rties, their <br />r:spect.ive succe~ors and assigns. <br />