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 COMMISSION REPORT

RIO GRANDE COMPACT

The State of Colorado, the State of New Mexico, and the State of Texas, desiring to
remove all causes of present and future controversy among these States and between citizens of
one of these States and citizens of another State with respect to the use of the waters of the Rio
Grande above Fort Quitman, Texas, and being moved by considerations of interstate comity, and for
the purpose of effecting an equitable apportionment of such waters, have resolved to conclude a
Compact for the attainment of these purposes, and to that end, through their respective Govemors,
have named as their respective Commissioners;

For the State of Colorado
For the State of New Mexico
For the State of Texas

M. C. Hinderlider
Thomas M. McClure
Frank B. Clayton

who, after negotiations participated in by S. O. Harper, appointed by the President as the
representative of the United States of America, have agreed upon the following articles, to- wit:

ARTICLE I

(a) The State of Colorado, the State of New Mexico, the State of Texas, and the United
States of America, are hereinafter designated "Colorado," "New Mexico," "Texas," and the "United
States," respectively.

(b) "The Commission" means the agency created by this Compact for the administration

thereot.

(c) The term "Rio Grande Basin" means all of the territory drained by the Rio Grande and
its tributaries in Colorado, in New Mexico, and in Texas above Fort Quitman, including the Closed
Basin in Colorado.

(d) The "Closed Basin" means that part of the Rio Grande Basin in Colorado where the
streams drain into the San Luis Lakes and adjacent territory, and do not normally contribute to the
flow of the Rio Grande.

(e) The term "tributary" means any stream which naturally contributes to the flow of the Rio

Grande.

(I) "Transmountain Diversion" is water imported into the drainage basin of the Rio Grande
from any stream system outside of the Rio Grande Basin, exclusive of the Closed Basin.

(g) "Annual Debits" are the amounts by which actual deliveries in any calendar year fall
below scheduled deliveries.

(h) "Annual Credits" are the amounts by which actual deliveries in any calendar year
exceed scheduled deliveries.

(i) "Accrued Debits" are the amounts by which the sum of all annual debits exceeds the
sum of all annual credits over any common period of time.

(j) "Accrued Credits" are the amounts by which the sum of all annual credits exceeds the
sum of all annual debits over any common period of time.

(k) "Project Storage" is the combined capacity of Elephant Butte Reservoir and all other
reservoirs actually available for the storage of usable water below Elephant Butte and above the first
diversion to lands of the Rio Grande Project, but not more than a total of 2,638,860 acre feet.