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<br />~. <br /> <br />... 7' -'.., <br /> <br />J, <br /> <br />-- <br /> <br />.- <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />PRESENTATION OF FRANK E. (SAM) MAYNES <br />at <br /> <br />COLORADO WATER WORKSHOP <br />August 1. 1985 <br /> <br />A Report: The Animas-La Plata! Related <br />I{eserved Indian Water. I{lghts Concerns <br /> <br />\ <br /> <br />The background of the Animas-La Plata Project can be traced to two <br /> <br />interstate compacts and two United States congressional enactments. The <br /> <br />Colorado River Compact of 1922 and the Upper Colorado River Basin Com- <br />pact of 1948 are the two compacts that led to the legislation. The <br />Colorado River Storage Act of 1956 and the Colorado River Basin Act of <br />1968 were the. significant legislative enactments that flowed from the inter- <br />state compacts. Article I of the Colorado River Compact of 1922 sets forth <br /> <br />its principal purposes: <br /> <br />The major purposes of this compact are to provide for <br />the equitable division and apportionment of the use of <br />the waters of the Colorado River System; to establish <br />the relative importance of different beneficial uses of <br />. water; to promote interstate comity; to remove causes <br />of present and future controversies; and to secure the <br />expeditious agricultural and industrial development of <br />the Colorado River Basin. the storage of its waters <br />and the protection of life and property from floods. <br />To these ends the Colorado River Basin is divided into <br />two Basins. and an apportionment of the use of part of <br />the water of the Colorado River System is made to <br />each of them with provision that further equitable <br />apportionments may be made. <br /> <br />,lJl1? <br /> <br />Article I I (f) of the Compact of 1922 defines the Upper Basin as: <br /> <br />. . . those parts of the States of Arizona. Colorado. <br />New Mexico. Utah and Wyoming within and from which <br />waters naturally drain into the Colorado River System <br />above Lee Ferry. and also all parts of said States <br />located without the drainage area of the Colorado River <br />System which are now or shall hereafter be beneficially <br />