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, <.0 .' !..'- (.~ -<;;"~ C~} C) R'OLES AND REGULATIONS FOR ADMIIIISTRATION OF TIlE RIO GRANDE COMPACT A Compaot, knOllIl as the Rio Grande Compact, between the states of Colorado, New Mexioo and Texas, having'beoome effeotive on May 31, 1939 by oonsent of the Congress of the United States, whioh equit- ably apportions the waters of the Rio Grande above Fort Qui tman and permits eaoh State to develop its water resouroes at will, subjeot only to its obligations to deliver water in aooordance with the sohedules set forth in the Compaot, the following Rulss and Regu- lations have been adopted for its administration by the Rio Gr&nde compaot Commission; to be and remain in foroe and effect only so long as the same may be satisfactory to eaoh and all members of the Commission, and provided always that on the objeotion 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 suoh ob- jeotion, the sentenoe, paragraph or any portion or all of these rules to whioh any suoh objeotion shall be made, shall stand ab- rogated and shall thereafter have no further foroe and effeot; 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 satisfaotory to each and all of the Commissioners. GAGING STATIONS Responsibility for the equipping, maintenance and operation of the stream gaging stations and reservoir gaging stations required by the provisione of Article II of the Compact .hall be divided among the signatory states a. follows. (a) Gaging stations on streams and reservoirs in the Rio Grande Ba.in above the Colorado-New Mexico boundary .hall be equipped, maintained, and operated by Col,rado in oooperation with the United States Geologioal Survey, (b) Gaging stations on streams and reservoirs in the Rio Grande Basin below Lobatos and above San Marcia.! shall be equipped, main- tained and operated by New Mexioo in cooperation with the U, ~, Geologioal Survey; the gaging station on the Rio Grande at San Maroial shall likewise be the responsibility of New Mexioo to the extent that this station is not: lnaintained and operated by the International Boundary commission, or some other Federal Agency, (0) Gaging stations on Elephant Butte Reservoir and on Caballo Reservoir, and the stream ~aging stations on the Rio Gr&nde below those reservoirs shall be equipped, maintained and operated by or on behalf of Texas through the agency of the U. s. Bureau of Reolam- ation. The equipment, method and frequency of measurements at each gaging station shall be sufficient to obtain records at lea~ equal in accuraoy to those olassified as "good" by the U, S, Geological Survey. Water stage recorders on the reservoirs specifically named -