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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I accruing debits and credits annually in the delivery of water by Colorado and New Mexico. The administration of the Rio Grande Compact has been complicated by the widely ranging flows in the River. Relatively large quantities of water were available from the river through 1945, but a general decline has occurred since. Both Colorado and New Mexico have been deficient in their deliveries during the past 20-30 years; maximum debits were accrued in 1965 (Colorado - 940,000 acre-feet; New Mexico - 445,000 acre-feet). In 1977, the debits for Colorado had been reduced to 705,000 acre-feet and New Mexico had an accrued credit of 32,000 acre-feet. New Mexico and Texas joined in a suit against Colorado in 1966, claiming that they were not receiving the water guaranteed by the Compact. That suit was essentially stayed in 1968 when the three states and the United States agreed to a stay of proceedings in the pending legislation to "afford a reasonable time for the interested parties to demonstrate the imminence of an equitable administrative solution". On April 17, 1968, the Attorneys General of the three states signed a Motion for Continuance and Memorandum based on the conditi on that Colorado "under takes to del i ver water at the Colorado-New Mexico state line to meet every year the delivery obligation established by the schedules of Article III of the Rio Grande Compact. To this end the State of Colorado shall exercise its best efforts and use all available admi- nistrative and legal powers including, if necessary, the curtailment of di versions enforced by agents of the State." Pecos River Compact New Mexico and Texas originally signed a compact for the Pecos River in 1925, but it was not finally ratified until 1948, after modification. Those complications have typified the relationship between the states over the PecOS River. Presently the delivery of water by New Mexico is being con- tested by Texas in the courts. Generally the compact divides the flow of the Pecos using 1947 as a base year, stating that New Mexico, by man's activities shall never cause 59 ....:..' I j . ^Cl ~b ,,-."-. :.c.i' ,~".