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<br />- <br />into binding contracts with the United <br />States Government fgr tne delivery of stored <br />water, and we know of no theory. under which <br />anybody can come in~and break those contracts <br />to get water which was. stored when, at. the <br />time it was stored, it was surplus. <br /> <br />Nevertheless, we covered that point in an <br />indirect fashion here. We said that all r~"'.' <br />leases from storage at Navajo Reservoir,' <br />necessary to supply..the water requirements .of <br />Indian rights in New Mexico below.the Navajo <br />Dam, shallbe chargeable to New MeXico's appor- <br />tionment under the terms of the Upper Basin <br />Compact. So if this eventuality, which we at <br />least, are convinced can never happen, does . <br />take place, we have indicated here, in a <br />roundabout fashion, that that water must come <br />from, not stored water in Colorado, but from <br />stored water in Navajo Reservoir, and shall <br />be charged then to New Mexico as its appor- <br />tioned share of water under the Compact. <br /> <br />Subparagraph (c) merely states that <br />nothing shall be construed as increasing or <br />decreasing the quantity of water allocated <br />under the Compact; . There is no way that we <br />can change the allocation under the Compact <br />in any way or fashion. As I have explained <br />before, the Compact takss pr~cedence over any <br />law which Congress can enact. <br /> <br />That, in essence, is the change. There <br />was a slight change in the fish and wildlife <br />provision on page 7 in which we merely spelled <br />out. what was meant by the fish and aquatic <br />flows on the Blanco and Navajo Rivers. The <br />Bureau of Reclamation has set forth certain <br />bypasses they contemplate making and we say <br />here that those bypasses must be made, <br /> <br />Otherwise, the language is identical <br />with what has been presented to the Board <br />before and over which there has been no dis- <br />agreement between Colorado and New Mexico. <br />This legislation has little chance of passing <br />the Congress during this session. Neverthe- <br />less, hearings will be conducted on May 20th <br />and 2lst on the project legislation, at which <br />time I expect to appear before the Interior <br />and Insular Affairs Committee and explain <br />Colorado's position on this legislation. The <br />legislation, in effect, will die at the end <br />of this session of Congress and must be rein- . <br />traduced at the next session. But hearings <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br />