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<br />1.12 <br /> <br />(e) In the event of the importation of water to the <br />Little Snake River Basin from any other river <br />basin, the State making the importation shall <br />have the. exclusive use of such imported water <br />unless by written agreement made by the repre- <br />sentatives of Colorado and Wyoming on the <br />Commission it is otherwise provided. <br /> <br />(f) Water use projects initiated after the signing <br />of this Compact, to the greatest extent possible, <br />shall pennit the full use within the basin in <br />the most'feasible manner of the water of the <br />Little Snake River and its tributaries without <br />regard to the State line and so far as is <br />practicable shall result in an equal division <br />between the States of the use of water not <br />used under rights existing prior to the signing <br />of this Compact. <br /> <br />(g) All consumptive use of .water of the Little <br />Snake River and its tributaries made by either <br />Colorado or Wyoming shall be charged as a use <br />made under the apportiorunent made by Article III <br />of.this Compact. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />ARTICLE XIII <br /> <br />Subject to the provisions of the compact, the rights to <br />the uSa of the waters of the YalllJ?8- River, a tributary entering the <br />Green River in Colorado, are hereby apportioned between Colorado <br />and utah in accordance with the following principles: <br /> <br />(a) Colorado will not cause the flow of the Yalllpa River <br />at the Maybelle Gaging station to be depleted below an aggregate <br />of 5,000,000 acre-feet for any period of ten consecutive years <br />reckoned in continUing progressive series beginning with the first <br />day of October next succeeding the ratification and approval by <br />Congress of this Compact. In the event any diversion is made for <br />the benefit of any utah water use project from the Yampa River or <br />from tributaries entering the Yamj:a River above the Maybelle Gaging <br />Station, then the gross amount of all such diversions for use in <br />Utah, less any returns of such diversions to the river above Maybell, . <br />shall be added to the actual flow at the Maybelle Gaging Station to <br />determine the total flow at the Maybelle Gaging Station. <br /> <br />(b) All consumptive uses of water of the Yampa River made <br />either by Colorado or Utah shall be Charged as uses under the <br />apportionment to such stat~s made by Article III of this compact. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />, <br />