WSP10989

• File Number: 8510.100.60
• Description: Rio Grande Compact Commission
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Date: 1/1/1942
• Title: Fourth Annual Report of the Rio Grande Compact Commission 1942
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

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states or Colorado or New Mexico, or any of them jointly,
the State having the right to the use of such water shall
be given proper credit therefor in the application of the
schedules.

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ARTICLE XI

New Mexico and Texas agree that upon the effective
date of this Compact all controversies between said States
relative to the quantity or quality of the water of the Rio
Grande are composed and settled; however, nothing here-
in shall be interpreted to prevent recourse by a signatory
state to the Supreme Court of the United States for re-
dress should the character or quality of the water, at the
point of delivery, be changed hereafter, by one signatory
State to the injury of another. Nothing herein shall be
construed as an admission by any signatory state that the
use of water for irrigation causes increase of salinity for
which the user is responsible in law.

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ARTICLE XII

To administer the provisions of this Compact there
shall be constituted a Commission composed of one repre-
sentative from each State, to be known as the Rio Grande
Compact Commission. The State Engineer of Colorado
shall be ex-officio the Rio Grande Compact Commissioner
for Colorado. The State Engineer of New Mexico shall
be ex-officio the Rio Grande Compact Commissioner for
New Mexico. The Rio Grande Compact Commissioner for
Texas shall be appointed by the Governor of Texas. The
President of the United States shall be requested to desig-
nate a representative of the United States to sit with such
Commission, and such representative of the Unied States,
if so designated by the President, shall act as Chairman
of the Commission without vote.

The salaries and personal expenses of the Rio Grande
Compact Commissioners for the three States shall be paid
by their respective States, and all other expenses incident
to the administration of this Compact, not borne by the
United States, shall be borne equally by the three States.

In addition to the powers and duties hereinbefore
specificallY conferred upon such Commission, and the
members thereof, the jurisdiction of such Commission shall
extend only to the collection, correlation and presentation
of factual data and the maintenance of records having a
bearing upon the administration of this Compact, and, by
unanimous action, to the making of recommendations to
the respective States upon matters connected with the ad-
ministration of this Compact. In connection therewith,