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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in which the facility is located shall permit the storage and release

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of any water which. as determined by ffndings of the Commission,

falls within' the apportionment of the State or States for whose benefit
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the facility is constructed. In the case 10f a regulating reservoir for

the joint benefit of all States in making, Lee Ferry deliveries, the water
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administration officials of the State inlwhich the facility is located, in

permitting the storage and release of ',vater, shall comply with the find-
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or its water users, provision be m~de for like payment in reimburse-
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ment of loss of taxes. I
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ings and orders of the Commission. j
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(d) In the event property is ac!quired by a signatory State in

another signatory State for the use an~ benefit of the f?rmer, the users

of water made available by such facilities, as a condition precedent to

the use thereof. shall pay to the polit~Cal subdivisions of the State in

which such works are located, each a~devery year during which such
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rights are enjoyed for such purposes.; a sum of money equivalent to the

average annual amount of taxes 1evie~ and assessed against the land
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. and improvements thereon during th~ ten years preceding the ac-
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quisition of such land, Said paymentt shall be in full reimbursement

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for the loss of taxes in such politica~ subdivisions. of the State, and

in lieu of any and all taxes on said p~operty. improvements and rights.
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The signatory States recommend to ~he President and the Congress

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that, in the event the United States of America shall acquire property

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in one of the signatory States for th~ benefit of another signatory State,
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