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<br />INTERSTATE COMPACTS ·
<br />ARTICLE 61
<br />Colorado River Compact
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<br />37-61-101. Colorado River Compact.-- The General Assembly hereby
<br />approves the compact, designated as the '~Colorado River Compactll.
<br />signed at the City of Santa Fe, State of New Mexico, on the 24th day
<br />of November. A.D. 1922, by Delph E. Carpenter, as the Commissioner
<br />for the State of Colorado, under authority of and in conformity with
<br />the provisions of an act of the General Assembly of the State of
<br />Colorado, approved April 2, 1921, entitled "An Act providing for the
<br />appointment of a Commissioner on behalf of the State of Colorado to
<br />negotiate a compact arid agreement between the States of Arizona,
<br />California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico. Utah and Wyoming and
<br />between said States and the United States respecting the use and
<br />distribution of the waters of the Colorado River and the rights of
<br />said States and the United States thereto, and making an appropriation
<br />therefor.", the same being Chapter 246 of the Session Laws of Colorado,
<br />1921, and signed by the Commissioners for the States of Arizona,
<br />California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, under legislative
<br />authority, and signed by the Commissioners for said seven States and
<br />approved by the Representative of the United States of America under
<br />authority and in conformity with the provisions of an Act of the
<br />Congress of the United States, approved August 19, 1921, entitled
<br />"An Act to permi t a compact or agreement between the States of
<br />Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming,
<br />respecting the disposition and apportionment of the waters of the
<br />Colorado River, and for other purposes.lI, which said compact is as
<br />follows:
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<br />COLORADO RIVER COMPACT
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<br />The States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico,
<br />Utah and Wyoming, having resolved to enter into a compact, under
<br />the Act of the Congress of the United States of America approved
<br />August 19, 1921, (42 Statutes at Large, page 171), and the Acts of
<br />the legiSlatures of the said states, have through their Governors
<br />appointed as their commissioners:
<br />W. S. Norviel, for the State of Arizona;
<br />W. F. McClure, for the State of California;
<br />Delph E. Carpenter, for the State of Colorado;
<br />J. G. Scrugham, for the State of Nevada;
<br />Stephen B. Davis, Jr., for the State of New Mexicoi
<br />R. E. Caldwell, for the State of Utah;
<br />Frank C. Emerson, for the State of Wyomingi
<br />who, after ne90tiations participated in by Herbert Hoover appointed
<br />by the President as the representative of the United States of
<br />America, have agreed upon the following articles:
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<br />ARTICLE
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<br />The major purposes of this compact are to provide for the equitable
<br />division and apportionment of the use of the waters of the Colorado
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