WSP09593

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 11/20/1922
• Author: Co. R Compact Comm.
• Title: Minutes of Colorado Compact Commission - Meeting #21
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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HR. NORVIEL: That is what it meMS. No time limit.

CH.\JRMAN HOOVER: Suppesing ene legislature disapproves ef it? What

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MR. D.\VIS:
MR. NORVIEL:

No compact.
It goes en to the next.

1m, DAVIS: It could go en to the next, yes, but it would be no

compact by, --

C&\Iffi~\N HOOVER, Ceuld the compact be held open until that legis-

lature reconsidored it?

Lm. NORVIEL, Not that legislature, but the next legislature.

C&\llUlli\N HOOVER: If some legislature refuses the fli'st cempact does

it vitiate Dny other cempact? Is it possible te revive it in tho same

state at a later date and restore the compact?

I,m. NORVIEL: There is no time limit in it. It may run on indeter-

minately until some legislature that might refuse .it the first time should

finally approve it.

CHAIffi\Ii\N HOOVER: I thought possibly some legislature in the first

instance might not agree and it might take some time and understanding

before they came to it and we shouldn It put ourselvos in the position that

the whole of the thing is ruined by the action of one legislature,

IiIR. DAVIS: The timo is indefinite.

C&\llU1\N HOOVER: All right, if that is clear it satisfies me.

1m. EAERSON: Could any state at a subsequent aession of the legis-

lature withdraw its approval?

l.ffi. D:,VIS: No, it would be, l.lr. Emerson, just like an individual

signing a 9ompact. Suppose vro seven vlere drawing up a compact for ourselves

personally. Six may sign it today and the seventh one may say he would

have to think it over and might not sign it for six months. Once it is

signed it would be binding upon everybody.

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