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

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(b) Any signatory State, any person or any entity of any

signatory State shall have the right to acquire such property rights

as are necessary to the use of water in conformity with this Compact.

in any other signatory State by donation, purchase or through the

exercise of the power of eminent domain, Any signatory State, upon

the written request of the Governor of any other signatory State, for

the benefit of whose water users property is to be acquired in the

State to which such written request is made, shall proceed expedi-

tiously to acquire the desired property either by purchase at a price

satisfactory to the requesting State, or, if such purchase cannot be

made, then through the exercise of its power of eminent domain and

shall convey such property to the requesting State or such entity as

may be designated by the requesting State; provided, that all costs of

acquisition and expenses of every kind and nature whatsoever incurred

in obtaining the requested property shall be paid by the requesting

State at the time and in the manner prescribed by tl:1e State requested

to acquire the property.

(c) Should any facility be constructed in a signatory State by

and for the benefit of another signatory State or States or the water

users thereof, as above provided, the construction, repair, replace-

ment, maintenance and operation of such facility shall be subject to

the laws of the State in which the facility is located, except that, in

the case of a reservoir constructed in one State for the benefit of

another State or States, the water administration officials of the State

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