WSP09220

• File Number: 8510.100.60
• Description: Rio Grande Compact Commission
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Date: 1/1/1965
• Title: Report of the Rio Grande Compact Commission 1965
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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RIO GRANDE COMPACT COMMISSION REPORT

RIO GRANDE COMPACT

The State of Colorado, the State of New Mexico, and
the State of Texas, desiring to remove all causes of pres-
ent and future controversy among these States and between
citizens of one of these States and citizens of another
State with respect to the use of the waters of the Rio
Grande above Fort Quitman, Texas, and being moved by con-
siderations of interstate comity, and for the purpose of
effecting an equitable apportionment of such waters, have
resolved to conclude a Compact for the attainment of these
purposes, and to that end, through their respective
Governors, have named as their respective Commissioners:

For the State of Colorado
For the State of New Mexico
For the State of Texas

M. C. Hinderlider
Thomas M. McClure
Frank B. Clayton

who, after negotiations participated in by S. O. Harper,
appointed by the President as the representative of the
United States of America, have agreed upon the following
articles, to-wit:

ARTICLE I

(a) The State of Colorado, the State of New Mexico,
the State of Texa~ and the United States of America, are
hereinafter designated "Colorado," "New Mexico,lI lITexas,lI
and the lIUnited States," respectively.

(b) "The CommissionlI means the agency created by this
Compact for the administration thereof.

( c)
territory
Colorado,
including

The term "Rio Grande BasinlI means
drained by the Rio Grande and its
in New Mexico, and in Texas above
the Closed Basin in Colorado.

all of the
tributaries in
Fort Quitman,

(d) The "Closed BasinlI means that part of the Rio
Grande Basin in Colorado where the streams drain into the
San Luis Lakes and adjacent territory, and do not normally
contribute to the flow of the Rio Grande.

(e) The term lItributary" means any stream which
naturally contributes to the flow of the Rio Grande.

(f) "Transmountain DiversionlI is water imported into
the drainage basin of the Rio Grande from any stream system
outside of the Rio Grande Basin, exclusive of the Closed
Basin.

(g) lIAnnual DebitslI are the amounts by which actual
deliveries in any calendar year fall below scheduled
deliveries.