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File Number
8510.100.60
Description
Rio Grande Compact Commission
Basin
Rio Grande
Water Division
3
Date
1/1/1997
Title
Report of the Rio Grande Compact Commission 1997
Water Supply Pro - Doc Type
Report/Study
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<br /> <br /> <br />.'," <br /> <br />:,~_<:8_'. <br /> <br />;;-:.:,,>~:;';.:;'/~\-'.' <br /> <br />.---~ <br />;:-::~, ;,;,~:"'~!,::"'i~;;.-~-.;,:,.;\,r'i";;\ ,": <br /> <br />t(") 3 <br />cy) <br />00 <br />, .) <br />t':') <br />C;:J <br /> <br />RIO GRANDE COMPACT COMMISSION REPORT <br /> <br />RIO GRANDE COMPACT <br /> <br />The State of Colorado, the State of New Mexico, and the State of Texas, desiring <br />to remove all causes of present and future controversy among these States and between <br />citizens of one of these States and citizens of another State with respect to the use of the <br />waters of the Rio Grande above Fort Quitman, Texas, and being moved by considerations of <br />Interstale comity, and for the purpose of effecting an equitable apportionment of such <br />waters, have resolved to conclude a Compact for the attainment of these purposes, and to <br />that end, through their respective Governors, have named as their respective Commission- <br />ers: <br /> <br />For the State of Colorado M. C. Hinderlider <br />For the State of New Mexico Thomas M. McClure <br />For the State of Texas Frank B. Clayton <br /> <br />who, after negotiations participated in by S. O. Harper, appointed by the President as the <br />representative of the United States of America, have agreed upon the following articles, 10- <br />wit: <br /> <br />ARTICLE I <br /> <br />(a) The State of Colorado, the State of New Mexico, the State of Texas, and the <br />United States of America, are hereinafter designated 'Colorado," 'New Mexico," 'Texas," <br />and the 'United States," respectively. ' <br /> <br />(b) 'The Commission" means the agency created by this Compact for the adminis- <br />tration thereof. <br /> <br />(c) The term 'Rio Grande Basin" means 'all of the territory drained by the Rio <br />Grande and Its tributaries In Colorado, in New Mexico, and In Texas above Fort Quitman, <br />Including the Closed Basin in Colorado. <br /> <br />(d) The "Closed Basin" means that part of the Rio Grande Basin In Colorado where <br />the streams drain into the San Luis Lakes and adjacent territory, and do not normally con- <br />tribute to Ihe flow of the Rio Grande. <br /> <br />(e) The term 'tributary" means any stream which naturally contributes to the flow of <br />the Rio Grande. <br /> <br />(I) 'Transmountaln Diversion" is water imported Into the drainage basin of the Rio <br />Grande from any stream system outside of the Rio Grande Basin, exclusive of the Closed <br />Basin. <br /> <br />(g) 'Annual Debits" are the amounts by which actual deliveries In any calendar <br />year fall below scheduled deliveries. <br /> <br />(h) "Annual Credits" are,the amounts by which actual deliveries In any calendar <br />year exceed scheduled deliveries. <br /> <br />(I) "Accrued Debits" are the amounts by which the sum of all annual debits exceeds <br />the sum of all annual credits over any common period of time. <br /> <br />0) 'Accrued Credits" are the amounts by which the sum of all annual credits <br />exceeds the sum of all annual debits over any common period of time. <br /> <br />(k) "Project Storage" is the combined capacity of Elephant Butte Reservoir and all <br />other reservoirs actualiy available for the storage of usable water below Elephant Butte and <br />above the first diversion to lands of the Rio Grande Project, but not more than a total of <br />2,638,860 acre feet. <br /> <br />'"OC," ''''I <br />-'-',~ -' '- .- ~.;:;~- <br />~:?f\~;f~~~~~{;; <br />
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