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'","'.", C.? '..\~ k' .-t , C'? 'i c- d~' 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 ',1 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, Subject only to its i obligations to deliver water in accordance with the sched- ules set forth in the Compact, the following Rules and Regulations 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 objec- tion, the sentence, I paragraph or any portion or all of these rules to which any such objection shall be made, shall stand abrogated and shall thereafter have po 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. RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR ADMINISTRATION OF THE RIO GRANDE COMPACT 19 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: (al Gaging stations on streams and reservoirs in the Rio Grande Basin above the COlorado-New Mexico boundary shall be equipped, maintained, and operated by Colorado in cooperation with the U.S. 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. (cl Gaging stations on Elephant Butte Reservoir and on ~abal10 Reservoir, and the stream gaging stations on the ~io Grande below those reservoirs shall be equipped, rraintained and operated by or on behalf of Texas through ;he agency of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. '1 Amended at Eleventh Annual Meeting, February 23, 1950.