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<br />0') <br />"'!' <br />"'" <br />""-1 <br />(::J <br />o <br /> <br />13 <br /> <br />,- <br /> <br />Article X provides that the state having the right to. use the water will <br /> <br />receive credit for any water imported into the basin. <br /> <br />Article XI contains the declaration by New Mexi.co and Texas that as of <br />the effective date of the Compact, issues regarding the quantity or the <br />quality of the water are settled. But each signatory state may at a later <br /> <br />time seek redress in the United States Supreme Court if the character or <br /> <br />The Commission, by unanimous action, may make recommendations to the re- <br /> <br /> <br />)spective states upon matters concerned with the administration of the <br /> <br />quality of the water at the point of delivery is changed to the injury of <br />another Signatory state. <br />Article XII establishes.the Rio Grande Compact Commission to administer <br />the provisions of the Compact. The juriSdiction of the Commission includes <br />the collection, correlation and presentation of factual data and the main- <br />tenance of records having a bearing upon the administration of the Compact. <br /> <br />Compact. Finally the Commission can adopt rules and regulations concerning <br /> <br />the Compact but only upon the unanimous con~ent of all the parties. <br />The ex officio member of the Commission from the state of Colorado is <br /> <br />the State Engineer. The commission meetings are usually held in March each <br /> <br />year at a site selected on a rotating basis. They are preceded by a meeting <br /> <br />of the state engineers from each state during which time the facts and <br />. 14 <br />figures used in the later Commission meeting are agreed upon. <br /> <br />Article XIII provides for a review of any provision of the Compact <br /> <br />rel ating to nonsubstantive matters every five years, but only by the unanimous <br /> <br />consent of all of the Commissioners. Substantive matters cannot be affected. <br /> <br />14Conversation with Mr. McFadden, the Division Engineer in Alamosa, on <br />January 3, 1977. <br />