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<br />9 <br /> <br />RIO GRANDE COMPACT COMMISSION REPORT <br /> <br />In any year in which the aggregate of accrued debits of Colorado and New Mexico exceeds <br />the minimum unfilled capacity of project storage, such debits shall be reduced proportionally to an <br />aggregate amount equal to such minimum unfilled capacity. <br /> <br />To the extent that accrued credits are impounded in reservoirs between San Marcial and <br />Courchesne, and to the extent that accrued debits are impounded in reservoirs above San Marcial, <br />such credits and debits shall be reduced annually to compensate for evaporation losses in the <br />proportion that such credits or debits bore to the total amount of water in such reservoirs during the <br />year. <br /> <br />ARTICLE VII <br /> <br />Neither Colorado nor New Mexico shall increase the amount of water in storage in <br />reservoirs constructed after 1929 whenever there is less than 400,000 acre feet of usable water in <br />project storage; provided, that if the actual releases of usable water from the beginning of the <br />calendar year following the effective date of this Compact, or from the beginning of the calendar year <br />following actual spill, have aggregated more than an average of 790,000 acre feet per annum, the <br />time at which such minimum stage is reached shall be adjusted to compensate for the difference <br />between the total actual release and releases at such average rate; provided, further, that Colorado, <br />or New Mexico, or both, may relinquish accrued credits at any time, and Texas may accept such <br />relinquished water, and in such event the state, or states, so relinquishing shall be entitled to store <br />water in the amount of the water so relinquished. <br /> <br />ARTICLE VIII <br />During the month of January of any year the Commissioner for Texas may demand of <br />Colorado and New Mexico, and the Commissioner for New Mexico may demand of Colorado, the <br />release of water from storage reservoirs constructed after 1929 to the amount of the accrued debits <br />of Colorado and New Mexico, respectively, and such releases shall be made by each at the greatest <br />rate practicable under the conditions then prevailing, and in proportion to the totai debit of each, and <br />in amounts, limited by their accrued debits, sufficient to bring the quantity of usable water in project <br />storage to 600,000 acre feet by March first and to maintain this quantity in storage until April thirtieth, <br />to the end that a normal release of 790,000 acre feet may be made from project storage in that year. <br /> <br />ARTICLE IX <br /> <br />Colorado agrees with New Mexico that in event the United States or the State of New <br />Mexico decides to construct the necessary works for diverting the waters of the San Juan River, or <br />any of its tributaries, into the Rio Grande, Colorado hereby consents to the construction of said works <br />and the diversion of waters from the San Juan River, or the tributaries thereof, into the Rio Grande in <br />New Mexico, provided the present and prospective uses of water in Colorado by other diversions <br />from the San Juan River, or its tributaries, are protected. <br /> <br />ARTICLE X <br /> <br />In the event water from another drainage basin shall be imported into the Rio Grande <br />Basin by the United States or Colorado or New Mexico, or any of them jointly, the State having the <br />right to the use of such water shall be given proper credit therefor in the application of the schedules. <br /> <br />ARTICLE XI <br /> <br />New Mexico and Texas agree that upon the effective date of this Compact all <br />controversies between said States relative to the quantity or quality of the water of the Rio Grande <br />are composed and settled; however, nothing herein shall be interpreted to prevent <br />