WSP03154

• File Number: 8510.100.60
• Description: Rio Grande Compact Commission
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Date: 1/1/1950
• Title: Twelfth Annual Report of the Rio Grande Compact Commission 1950
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

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RIO GRANDE COMPACT

The State of Colorado, the State of New Mexico, and the State
of Texas, desiring to remove all causes of present and future con-
troversy among these States and between citizens of one of these
States and citizens of another State with respect to the use of the
waters of the Rio Grande above Fort Quitman, Texas, and being moved
by consideration of interstate comity, arid for the purpose of ef-
fecting an equitable apportionment of such waters, have resolved
to conclude a Compact for the attainment of these purposes, and to
that end, through their respective Governors, have named as their
respecti ve Commissioners:

For the State of Colorado
For the State of New Mexico
For the State of Texas

M. C. Hinderlider
Thomas M. McClure
Frank B. Clayton

who, after negotiations participated in by S. O. Harper, appointed
by the President as the representative of the United States of
America, have agreed upon the following articles, to-wit:

ARTICLE I

(a) The State of Colorado, the State of New Mexico, the State
of Texas and the United States of America, are hereinafter desig-
nated "Colorado," "New Mexico," "Texas," and the "United States,"
respecti vely.

(b) "The Commission" means the agency created by this Compact
for the administration thereof.

(c) The term "Rio Grande Basin" means all of the territory
drained by the Rio Grande and its tributaries in Colorado, in New
Mexico, and in Texas above Fort Quitman, including the Closed Basin
in Colorado.

(d) The "Closed Basin" means that part of the Rio Grande Basin
in Colorado where the streams drain into the San Luis Lakes and ad-
jacent territory, and do not normally contribute to the flow of the
Rio Grande.

(e) The term "tributary" means any stream which naturally con-
tributes to the flow of the Rio Grande.

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(f) "Transmountain Diversion" is water imported into the drain-
age basin of the Rio Grande from any strem, system outside of the
Rio Grande Basin, exclusive of the Closed Basin..

(g) "Annual Debits" are the amounts by which actual deliveries..
in any calendar year fall below scheduled deliveries.

(h) "Annual Credits" are the amolmts by which actual deliveries

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