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<br />18 <br /> <br />and without a Mexican treaty signed yet :lith this treaty and Arizona's <br /> <br />belated entry into the Compact. they were ready to line up with "buckets and <br />67 <br />barrels" to ensure their mm shares and get development unden;ay both on <br /> <br />existing projects such as the Colorado-Big Thompson and for planned future <br /> <br />projects such as Echo Park Reservoir. <br /> <br />The governors of the five Upper Basin states Cjuickly moved to authorize <br /> <br />a negotiation of an interstate compact to apportion each state's share of the <br /> <br />Colorado so that comprehensive pluns for water development in each state could <br /> <br />resume. Commissioners from northern Arizona (only a small portion of Arizonil <br /> <br />is located above Lee Ferry), New Mexico, Utaj-.., \'yomin9, anel Colorado were <br /> <br />appointed by each of the states deliberate terms for a new compact. A repres- <br /> <br />entative of the United States, Harry Bashore, was also appointed by President <br /> <br />Truman as Cllairman of the Conmission. This lias the birth of the Upper Colorado <br /> <br />River Basin Compact Commission. <br /> <br />Trle purposes of the Commission as stated in Article la. of the compact <br /> <br />whose. deliberations 1lere begun in Meeting One on JUly 31, 1945 in Salt Lake City <br /> <br />and completed with the signing in Santa Fe on October 11, 1948 \;ere: <br /> <br />...to provide for the equitable division and apportionment <br />of the Colorado River System, the use of which lias appor- <br />tioned in perpetuity to the Upper Basin by ~le Colorado <br />River Compact; to establish the obligations of each state <br />of the Upper Division with respect to the deliveries of <br />water required to be made at Lee Ferry by the Colorado <br />River Compact; to promote interstate comity; to remove <br />causes of present and future controversies; and to secure <br />the expeditious agriCUltural and industrial development <br />of the Upper Basin, the storage of its waters, and the pro- <br />tection of life and property from floods.58 <br /> <br />Also of central importance to the Upper Basin Compact was Ule provision in <br /> <br />Article lb: <br />