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00 ~ q ..-~ C) C) 12 Arti~le VI contains provisions for the reduction or elimination of accrued debits. If the project storage is so full that water must be released and cannot be recaptured in lower project reservoirs, the accrued debits of New Mexico and Colorado will be eliminated. [n addition, if the aggregate accl'ued debits of Col(1I"a<lo and N,.w Mexico ,'xc",'d !.lit. llllf! 11ed capacity of project storage, the accrued debits will be reduced accordingly. Finally, the accrued credits and accrued debits will be reduced annually to compensate for evaporation losses sustained in certain designed project storage reservoirs. Article VII prohibits either Colorado or New r1exico from increasing the amount of water stored in reservoirs constructed after 1929 whenever there is less than 400,000 acre feet of usable water in project storage. But if actual releases from either the effective date of the Compact or the calendar year following an actual spill are more than an average of 790,000 acre feet per annum, the minimum amount of storage in Elephant Butte Reservoir shall be adjusted to reflect the excess. Article VIII permits both Texas and New Mexico, during the month of January, to demand the release of water ins torage reservoi rs constructed after 1929. up to the amount of the accrued debits, and the releases shall be in sufficient quantities to bring the amount of usable water in project storage up to 600,000 acre feet by March 1 and to maintain that amount in storage until April 13. This provision is designed to permit the normal release of 790,000 acre feet of water from project storage each year. Article IX contains Colorado's consent to the importation by New Mexico or by the federal government of water from the San Juan River, provided that present and prospective uses in Colorado of such water and its tri- butaries are protected.