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"'-. ~', CJ C:-..! c,., 't'.-!' (~. ... RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR ADMINISTRATION OF THE RIO GRANDE COMPACT A Compact, known as the Rio Grande Compact, between the states of Colorado, New Mexico and Texas, having become effective on May 31, 1939 by consent of the Congress of the United States, which equitably apportions the waters of the Rio Grande above Fort Quitman and permits each State to develop its water resources at will, sub- ject only to its obligations to deliver water in accordance with the schedules set forth in the Compact, the following Rules and Regula- tions have been adopted for its administration by the Rio Grande Compact Commission; to be and remain in force and effect only so long as the same may be satisfactory to each and all members of the Commission, and provided always that on the objection of any member of the Commission, in writing, to the remaining two members of the Commission after a period of sixty days from the date of such objection, the sentence, paragraph or any portion Dr all of these rules to which any such objection shall be made, shall stand abrogat- ed and shall thereafter have no further force and effect; it being the intent and purpose of the Commission to permit these rules to obtain and be effective only so long as the same may be satisfactory to each and all of the Commissioners. GAGING STATIONS Ll Responsibility for the equipping, maintenance and operation of the stream gaging stations and reservoir gaging stations required by the provisions of Article II of the Compact shall be divided among the signatory states as follows: (a) Gaging stations on streams and reservoirs in the Rio Grande Basin above the Colorado-New Mexico boundary shall be equipped, main- tained, and operated by Colorado in cooperation with the United. States Geological Survey. (b) Gaging stations on streams and reservoirs in the Rio Grande Basin below Lobatos and above Caballo Reservoir shall be equipped, maintained and operated by New Mexico in cooperation with the U. S. Geological Survey to the extent that such stations are not maintained and operated by some other Federal Agency. (c) Gaging stations on Elephant Butte Reservoir and on Caballo Reservoir, and the stream gaging stations on the Rio Grande below those reservoirs shall be equipped, maintained and operated by or on. behalf of Texas through the agency of the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation. Ll Amended at Eleventh Annual Meeting, February 23, 1950. '~'-~' . "~ :,.,'. ;.-, '. .i.. . '/ ',<.