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1* <br />Present perfected rights to the beneficial use of waters of the Colorado River System <br />are unimpaired by this compact. Whenever storage capacity of 5,000,000 acre feet shall <br />have been provided on the main Colorado River within or for the benefit of the Lower <br />Basin, then claims of such rights, if any, by appropriators or users of waters in the Lower <br />Basin, against appropriators or users of water in the Upper Basin shall attach to and be <br />' satisfied from water that may be stored not in conflict with Article III. <br />All other rights to beneficial use of waters of the Colorado River System shall be <br />satisfied solely from the water apportioned to that Basin in which they are situate. <br />Article IX <br />' Nothing in this compact shall be construed to limit or prevent any State from <br />instituting or maintaining any action or proceeding, legal or equitable, for the protection <br />of any right under this compact or the enforcement of any of its provisions. <br />Article X <br />This compact may be terminated at any time by the unanimous agreement of the <br />signatory States. In the event of such termination all rights established under it shall <br />continue unimpaired. <br />Article XI <br />This compact shall become binding and obligatory when it shall have been approved <br />' by the Legislatures of each of the signatory States and by the Congress of the United <br />States. Notice of approval by the Legislatures shall be given by the Governor of each <br />signatory State to the Governors of the other signatory States and to the President of the <br />' United States, and the President of the United States is requested to give notice to the <br />Governors of the signatory States of approval by the Congress of the United States. <br />In Witness Whereof, The Commissioners have signed this compact in a single <br />original, which shall be deposited in the archives of the Department of State of the United <br />States of America and of which a duly certified copy shall be forwarded to the Governor <br />' of each of the signatory States. <br />Done at the City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, this Twenty -fourth day of November, <br />A.D. One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty -Two. <br />' W. S. Norviel, <br />W. F. McClure, <br />Delph E. Carpenter, <br />J. G. Scrugham, <br />Stephen B. Davis, Jr., <br />' R. E. Caldwell, <br />Frank E. Emerson. <br />Approved: <br />Herbert Hoover. <br />