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<br />- <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />~ -~ <br />. <br /> <br />M E M 0 RAN DUM <br /> <br />June 22, 1982 <br /> <br />TO: <br /> <br />File <br /> <br />FROM: <br /> <br />Interstate Stream Commission Staff <br /> <br />',.SUBJECT: <br /> <br />San Juan River Water Supply Available to New Mexico <br />and Existing, Authorized and Prospective Uses <br /> <br />,Presently, the Department of the Interior will enter <br /> <br />contracts for water from Navajo Reservoir aggregating 100,000 <br /> <br />acre-feet of annual depletion through the year 2005 based on a <br /> <br />water supply determination made November 26, 1963. To avoid <br /> <br />making a critical interpretation of the Colorado River Compact <br /> <br />with respect to delivery of water for the Mexican Treaty obliga- <br /> <br />tion, the Department, to be conservative, assumed a delivery of <br /> <br />750,000 acre-feet per year from the Upper Colorado River Basin at <br /> <br />Lee Ferry as its share of the treaty obligation. The determination <br /> <br />was based on projections that the other Upper Division states would <br /> <br />not have fully developed their entitlements before 2005 and, there- <br /> <br />fore, New Mexico could, under Article III (b) (3) of the Upper Basin <br /> <br />Compact exceed its entitlement until 2005. <br /> <br />On January 22, 1964, the State of New Mexico advised the <br /> <br />Department of the Interior that it would not object to the Depart- <br /> <br />ment's 1963 water supply determination so long as that determina- <br /> <br />tion did not inhibit development of what New Mexico believes to be <br /> <br />its share of San Juan River water under the Colorado River compacts. <br /> <br />New Mexico has taken the position that even under a very <br />