WSP02608

• File Number: 8220.106
• Description: Animas-La Plata
• State: CO
• Basin: San Juan/Dolores
• Water Division: 7
• Date: 1/12/1967
• Title: Agenda Item 4 Animas La-Plata Project Compact
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Board Memo

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Proposed Amendment to H.R, 4671
Re: Animas-La plata project
correction of drafts of 10-27-66 & 11-1-66

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CVlCB 12-26-66

SEC. 503. (a) project construction of the Animas-La

Plata Federal Reclamation Project shall not be undertaken until and

unless the States of Colorado and New Mexico shall have ratified the

Animas-La Plata Project Compact as set forth in paragraph (b) of

this section~

(b)

ANIMAS-LA PLATA PROJECT COMPACT

The state of Colorado and the State .of New Mexico, in

order to implement the operation of the Animas-La Plata Federal

Reclamation Project, Colorado-New Mexico, a proposed participating

project under the Colorado River Storage Project Act (70 Stat. 105),

and being moved by considerations of interstate comity, have resolved

to conclude a compact for these purposes and have agreed upon the

following articles

ARTIC1:.E I

A. The right to store and divert water in Colorado and

New Mexico from the La Plata and Animas River systems, including

return flow to the La Plata River from Animas River diversions, for

uses in New Mexico under the Animas-La Plata Federal Reclamation

project shall be valid and of equal priority with those rights

granted by decree of the Colorado state courts for the uses of water

in Colorado for that project, providing such uses in New Mexico are

within the allocation of water made to that state by articles III

and XIV of the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact (63 stat, 31).

B. The restrictions of the last sentence of Section (a)

of Article IX of the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact shall not

be construed to vitiate paragraph A of this article.