WSP12927

• File Number: 8510.100.60
• Description: Rio Grand Compact Commission
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Date: 1/1/2004
• Author: Rio Grande Compact Commission
• Title: 2004 Annual Report of the Rio Grand Compact Commission
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

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RIO GRANDE COMPACT

recourse by a signatory state to the Supreme Court of the United States for redress should the
character or quality of the water, at the point of delivery, be changed hereafter by one signatory state
to the injury of another. Nothing herein shall be construed as an admission by any signatory state
that the use of water for irrigation causes increase of salinity for which the user is responsible in law.

ARTICLE XII

To administer the provisions of this Compact there shall be constituted a Commission
composed of one representative from each state, to be known as the Rio Grande Compact
Commission. The State Engineer of Colorado shall be ex-officio the Rio Grande Compact
Commissioner for Colorado. The State Engineer of New Mexico shall be ex-officio the Rio Grande
Compact Commissioner for New Mexico. The Rio Grande Compact Commissioner for Texas shall
be appointed by the Govemor of Texas. The President of the United States shall be requested to
designate a representative of the United States to sit with such Commission, and such representative
of the United States, if so designated by the President, shall act as Chairman of the Commission
without vote.

The salaries and personal expenses of the Rio Grande Compact Commissioners for the
three States shall be paid by their respective States, and all other expenses incident to the
administration of this Compact, not bome by the United States, shall be bome equally by the three
States.

In addition to the powers and duties hereinbefore specifically conferred upon such
Commission, and the members thereof, the jurisdiction of such Commission shall extend only to the
collection, correlation and presentation of factual data and the maintenance of records having a
bearing upon the administration of this Compact, and, by unanimous action, to the making of
recommendations to the respective States upon matters connected with the administration of this
Compact. In connection therewith, the Commission may employ such engineering and clerical aid as
may be reasonably necessary within the limit of funds provided for that purpose by the respective
States. Annual reports compiled for each calendar year shall be made by the Commission and
transmitted to the Governors of the signatory States on or before March first following the year
covered by the report. The Commission may, by unanimous action, adopt rules and regulations
consistent with the provisions of this Compact to govem their proceedings.

The findings of the Commission shall not be conclusive in any court or tribunal which may
be called upon to interpret or enforce this Compact.

ARTICLE XIII

At the expiration of every five-year period after the effective date of this Compact, the
Commission may, by unanimous consent, review any provisions hereof which are not substantive in
character and which do not affect the basic principles upon which the Compact is founded, and shall
meet for the consideration of such questions on the request of any member of the Commission;
provided, however, that the provisions hereof shall remain in full force and effect until changed and
amended within the intent of the Compact by unanimous action of the Commissioners, and until any
changes in this Compact are ratified by the legislatures of the respective states and consented to by
the Congress, in the same manner as this Compact is required to be ratified to become effective.

ARTICLE XIV

The schedules herein contained and the quantities of water herein allocated shall never be
increased nor diminished by reason of any increase or diminution in the delivery or loss of water to
Mexico.