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debits, New Mexico shall not be chargeCl, with anY' greater debit :I.n anyone year than the sum of 150,000 acre~feet anda.ll gains in the quantity of' water in storage in such year. "The Connnission by unanimous action may authorize the release from storage of any amount of water which is then being held in storage by reason of accrued debits of Colorado or New 'Mexico; provided, that such vater shall be replaced at the first opportunity thereafter. . . . , " "ARTIOLE \III "Neither Colorado nor New Mexico shall increase the amount of water in storage in reservoirs constructed after 1929 whenever there is less than 400,000 acre-feet of usable vater in project storage; proVided, that if the actuS.l releases of usable vater from the begizming of the calendar year .following the effective date of this Com- pact, or from the beginning of the calendar year follOwing actual spill, have aggregated more than an average of 790,000 acre~feet per annum, the time at which suah mini- mum stage is reached shall be adjusted to cOlli}lensate for the difference between the total actual release and releases at such average rate; proVided, :f'urther, that Colorado or New Me:x:1co, or both, may relinquish accrued credits at any tilne, and Texas may accept such relin- quished water, and in such event the state, or states, so relinquishing shall be entitled to store water in the amount of the water so relinquished," The vater to be stored in the reservoirs on the tributary units will be physically Rio Grande vater, and the flow at Otowi would be reduaeif,'as a result of suah storage. Releases of water from Heron No.4 Reservoir will be made cOMurrent with the diversion of vater to storage on the tributary units in order that the :flow at Otowi will not be so reduced. For the pu;rpose of ma.k1ng concurrent releases to replace increased diversions of Rio Grande vater to storage in the tributary units, i.t ean be assumed that the losses on such releases :t'r<:8!l'll'eron No, 4 Reservoir to otowi are equal to the reduction in losses on Rio Grande vater resulting from suah additional tiversions on the tribu'.. tary units, and, therefore, H\ilron No.4 Reservoir releases will be made on the basis of an acre-feot of release :for each acre-foot of additional diversion to storage. Consequently, whenever vater is stored im the tributary unit reservoirs and concurrent'.releases of imported vater in Heron No.4 Reservoir are made in an equal amount, the interests of none of the parties to the Rio Grande Compact yould be adversely a.:f'fected under any circumstances. ", 16 Rev. 2/25/63