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iOG5 RUEDI DAM AND RESERVOIR, COLO. 25 " 14, The project is to be operated in such a manner as to secure the greatest benefit from the use and reuse of imported project waters within project boundaries in the State of Colorado. 15. Any and all benefits and rights of western Colorado water users in and to water stored in Green Mountain Reservoir, as described and defined in Senate Document 80, 75th Congress, 1st session, shall not be impaired or diminished by this project. 16, The project, its operation, maintenance, and use shall be subject to the prOVIsions of the Upper Colorado River Basin compact of Octo- ber 11, 1948 (Public Law 37, 81st Cong" 1st sess.), llnd the Colorado Ri,'er compact of November 24, 1922 (H. Doc. 005, 6ith Cong., 4th sess.). The project shall always be operated in accordance with the laws of the State of Colorado, and in accordance with the dCCI'ees of the State courts of Colorado and decisions of the Colorado State engineer. 17. The Colorado River 'Vater Consermtion District of the State of Colorado shall acquire title to storage of water in Ruedi Reservoir and any reservoir constructed in addit.ion thereto, by appropriate proceedings in the courts of the State of Colorado. The Southeastern Colorado 'Vater Conservancy District. of the St.ate of Colorado shall likewise acquire title to the water required by t.he project for diversion t.o the Arkansas Valley. The Secretary of the Interior shall at any time after the authorization of the project have the option to obtain or require the transfer to the United States of any and all rights initiated or acquired by appropriation as herein set forth: Provided, however, That the rights so taken shall be subject to a beneficial use of such water as may be provided in the repayment contract or con- tracts, and subject to all the operating princ'pJes herein set fort.h. 18. No transmountam diversion of water shall eyer be maue through the collection and diversion system of the Fryingpan-Arkansas proj- ect in excess of the quantitative limitations and conditions established by this document. 'Vhcnever, however, under the III WI:; of the Stute of Colorado there may be additional water available for such collec- tion and diversion which is not at the time of diversion required for beneficial use in western Colorado or for filling interstate water COIn- pact a/$"reements, then such water may be collected and diverted for "'-___henefici.al-us"-in-th"-A.k<H>S"s-V,,ney-:--P~'017ided,hO'rJ)emr:; Thar-Builh 11: _ additional diversion shall only be made with the mutual consent of ;1 each of the following agencies of the State of Colorado, to wit: the ,~ Colorado 'Varer Conservation Board, the Southwestern Water Con- If, servation District, the Colorado River Water Conservation District, and the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District. 19. To assure project operation in conformity with the operating principle heretofore stated, to provide a means for the collection and mterchange of information, and to provide a method for the continued study of project operations to the end that, if the stared operating principles may be improved upon,. recommendations for changes may be mude to the contracting parties, a commission shall be created in an appropriate mallner to be composed of one representative of the Southeast.ern Colorado Water Conservancy DistrICt, one representa- tive of the Colorado River Water Conservation District, two repre- sentatives of the United States, and one representative of tlte State of Colorado appointed by the Colorado 'Vater COllservation Board after :'i23:'i1-60-3 s. l ~ -:.