WSP01206

• File Number: 8200.300l49.B
• Description: Upper Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 10/11/1948
• Author: UCRB States
• Title: Upper Colorado River Compact
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

or authorized representatives of the Uni~ed States of America.
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(g) Findings of fact made by the ICoinmission shall not be con-
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elusive in any court, or before a.ny agenty or tribunal, but shall con-

stitute prima facie evidence of the facts/found.
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(h) The organization meeting of It he Commission shall be held

within four months from the effective dite of this Compact.

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(a) No State shall deny the right of the United States of America

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and, subject to the conditions heJ:"einaft~r contained, no State shall
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deny the right of another signatory Stat~, any person, or entity of any
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signatory State to acquire rights to the juse of water, or to construct

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or participate in the construction and tise of diversion works and
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storage reservoirs with appurtenant w~rks, canals and conduits in

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one State for the purpose of diverting, bonveying, storing, regulating
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and releasing water to satisfy the pro~isions of the Colorado River

Compact relating to the obligation of tte States of the Upper Division

to make deliveries of water at Lee Fekry, or for the purpose of
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diverting, conveying, storing orregul ting water in an upper signatory

State for consumptive use ina lower ignatory State, when such u.se is

within the apportionment to such lowe State made by this Compact,
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Such rights shall be subject to the rights of water users, ina State
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in which such reservoir or works are located, to receive and use water,

the use of which is within theapporti. nment to such State by this

Compact,

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