WSP12094

• File Number: 8210.120
• Description: Colorado River Basin States Committee ‎(AKA Colorado River Compact Commission)‎
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 2/18/1948
• Author: CRBSC
• Title: Proceedings of the Meeting of the Colorado River Basin States Committee
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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jurisdiction within its own territory and in accordance with

its own laws over all real property necessary to carry out

the provisions of the Treaty.~
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So the question to be determined is the extent neces-

'sary under the Treaty to effectuate that control. If it can be

done through an agency agreement such as the District proposes

with supervision by the agencies of the United States and with

the provision that those particular facilities can be taken bac~

at any time, then of course the provisions of the Treaty are

satisfied; and that is the only basis upon which the Department

of State and the United States Section can proceed. In other

words, they are dealing with a private contractual right.

The question is the extent to which they must encroach upon

that contract in order to satisfy the provisions of the Treaty.

As I have said, these proposals were disoussed at a

meeting in Washington in January among representatives of the

Departments of State, Interior and Justice, the Bureau of

Reclamation and the United States Sect)on of the International

Boundary and Wa.ter COl'lllllission. No final conclusion has as yet

~een reached. No reply has as yet been made to the Imperial

Irrigation District. The Department has as yet received no

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formal opinion from the Department of Justice as to whether

some such arrangement as this can be concluded compatibly with

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the Treaty; but our understand^iS as a result of these confer-

Q,nces that .the Department of Justice, or their representatives,

feol that some such arrangement as this can be accomplished

compatibly with the Treaty.

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