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<br />" <br /> <br />t, <br />OOOlx23 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />under interstate compact. <br />The required delivery from Colorado under the terms of the <br /> <br />Rio Grande Compact was based in part upon the requirements of the <br /> <br /> <br />Mexican Treaty. It was always recognized that Elephant Butte Dam <br /> <br /> <br />would have to rely to a large extent on waters released from the <br /> <br /> <br />State of Colorado. We do not object to the storage of water in the <br /> <br /> <br />Elephant Butte Reservoir for release to the Republic of Mexico, but <br /> <br />we do object to any implication that this national obligation should <br />be transferred to the State of Colorado. <br /> <br />It is most obvious that the Mexican Treaty obligation <br /> <br /> <br />imposes a delivery requirement of 60,000 acre-feet annually from the <br /> <br /> <br />Rio Grande River. The major part of this burden falls upon the <br /> <br /> <br />State of Colorado, Where the principal flows of the upper river <br /> <br /> <br />originate. I repeat again that this is a burden which was assumed <br /> <br /> <br />as a national obligation and not one which the State of Colorado <br /> <br /> <br />assumed by voluntary interstate compact. We believe that simple <br /> <br /> <br />equity demands that this national obligation be fulfilled at national <br /> <br /> <br />expense. Both New Mexico and Texas have received substantial assist- <br /> <br /> <br />ance in connection with the national obligations assumed by the <br /> <br /> <br />treaties of both 1906 and 1944. On the other hand. the State of <br /> <br /> <br />Colorado, upon which the principal burden of the 1906 treaty falls, <br /> <br />has received no assistance. <br /> <br />The legislation provides that, after the satisfaction of <br /> <br />-11- <br />