WSP05773

• File Number: 8510.100.60
• Description: Rio Grande Compact Commission
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Date: 1/1/1947
• Title: Ninth Annual Report of the Rio Grande Compact Commission 1947
• 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 oauses of present and future con-
troversy among these states and between citizens of one of these
States and oitizens of another State with respect to the use of
the waters of the Rio Granda above Fort Quitman, Texas, and being
moved by considerations of interstate comity, and for the purpose
of effeoting an equitable apportionment of suoh 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
respective Commissioners.

For the state of Colorado - M, C. liinderlider

For the State of New Mexico - Thomas M, MoC1ure

For the State of Texas - Frank B. Clayton

who, after negotiations partioipated in by S. o. Harper, appointed
by the President as the representative of the United States of
America, have agreed upon the following artioles, to-wit.

ARTICLE I.

(a) The State of Colorado, the State of New ~exico, the State
of Texas, and the United states of America, are hereinafter desig-
nated "Colorado." tlNew Mexico, It "Texas, It and the "United States,"
respectively.

(b) "The Commission" means the ageney oreated 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
lIexico, and in Texas above Fort Qui ban, including the Closed Basin
in Colorado.

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

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

(f) "TranslDountain Diversion" is water imported into the
drainags ba sin of the Rio Grande from any stream 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 bel"" scheduled deliveries.

(h) "Annual Credits" are the amounts by which actual deliver-
ies in any calendar year exceed scheduled deliveries.

(i) "Accrued Debits" are the amounts by which the sum of all
annual debite exoeeds the sum of all annual credits over any common
period of time.