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C'J C\J <-:> ...-4 C.,) l_-:J the extent of its accrued debit. In computing the magni- tude of accrued credits or debits, New Mexico shall not be charged with any greater debit in anyone year than the sum of 150,000 acre feet and all gains in the quantity of water in storage in such year. The Commission, 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 water shall be replaced at the first opportunity thereafter. In computing the amount of accrued credits and ac- crued debits of Colorado or New Mexico, any annual cred- its in excess of 150,000 acre feet shall be taken as equal to that amount. In any year in which actual spill occurs, the accrued credits of Colorado, or New Mexico, or both, at the begin- ning of the year shall be reduced in proportion to their re- spective credits by the amount of such actual spill; provid- ed, that the amount of actual spill shall be deemed to be increased by the aggregate gain in the amount of water in storage, prior to the time of spill, in reservoirs above San Marcial constructed after 1929; provided, further, that if the Commissioners for the States having accrued credits authorize the release of part, or all, of such credits in advance of spill, the amount so released shall be deem- ed to constitute actual spill. In any year in which there is actual spill of usable water, or at the time of hypothetical spill thereof, all ac- crued debits of Colorado, or New Mexico, or both, at the beginning of the year shall be cancelled. In any year in which the aggregate of accrued debits of Colorado and New Mexico exceeds the minimum un- filled capacity of project storage, such debits shall be re- duced proportionally to an aggregate amount equal to such minimum unfilled capacity. To the extent that accrued credits are impounded in reservoirs between San Marcial and Courchesne, and to the extent that' accrued debits are impounded in reservoirs above San Marcial, such credits and debits shall be reduc- ed annually to compensate for evaporation losses in the proportion that such credits or debits bore to the total amount of water in such reservoirs during the year. ARTICLE VII Neither Colorado nor New Mexico shall increase the amount of water in storage in reservoirs constructed after