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<br />SOUTH PLATTE RIVER COMPACT
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<br />~ 37-65-101
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<br />New Mexico, a proposed participating project under the Colorado River Stor-
<br />age Pwject Act (70 Stat. 105; 43 U,S,c, 620) and being moved by consider-
<br />ations of interstate comity, have resolved to conclude a compact for these
<br />purposes and have agreed upon the follmNing articles;
<br />
<br />ARTICLE r
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<br />'A, The right to store and divert water in Colorado anel Ne\v IVlexico from the
<br />La Plata and Animas River systems, including return flow to the La Plata River
<br />from Animas River diversions, fOl- uses in New Mexico under the Animas-La
<br />Plata Federal Reclamation Project shall be valid and of equal priol"ity with
<br />those rights granted by decree of the Colorado state courts for the uses of water
<br />in Colorado for that project providing such uses in New Mexico are within the
<br />allocation of water made [Q that state by articles III and XIV of the Upper
<br />Colorado River Basin Compact (63 Stat. 31),
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<br />B. The restrictions of the last sentence of'Section (a) of Article IX of the
<br />Upper Colorado River Basin Compact shall not be constnted to vitiate para-
<br />graph A of this article.
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<br />ARTICLE II
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<br />This Compact shall become binding and obligatory \\/hen it shall have been
<br />ratified by the legislatures of each of the signatory States.
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<br />Historical and Statutory i-Jotes
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<br />Derivatiun:
<br />CR,S,I963, S 1.+9-[3-1.
<br />Law$ 1969, H.B.1369, S 1,
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<br />Complementary Legislation:
<br />:\.!'v[ex,-N;vISA 1978,9 72-\5-(,
<br />U,~,:-Sept. 30, 1968, Pub.L. 90-537, 82 Stat.
<br />~S,).
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<br />Stat:::" <> 6,
<br />\-Ve,Sdu\v T upic 1\1"0. .3-60.
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<br />Library References
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<br />Wesdaw' Topic Nos. 360, 405,
<br />CIS States 99 31 to 32. i.+3,
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<br />ARTICLE 65
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<br />South Platte River Compact
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<br />S~ction
<br />3 7-6S-10 j. SOLtrh Pbw:~ River ccmp~KL
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<br />3 37-65-101. South Platte River compact
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<br />The Genera! Assembly hereby approves the compact, designated as the
<br />"South Platte River Compact", bet\veen the states of Colorado and Nebraska,
<br />signed at the City of Lincoln, State of Nebraska, on the 21th day of April. A,D,
<br />! 923, by Delph E. Carpemer as the Commissioner for the State of Colorado,
<br />under ;;\mhority of Chapter 243, Session laws of Colot-ado, 1921, and Chapter
<br />190, Session Laws of Colorado, 1923. and by Robert H. Willis as th~. Commis-
<br />sioner for [he State of 0iebraska, [hereunto duly authorized, \'vhich sak! com-
<br />pact is as follows:
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