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<br />ARKANSAS RIVER COMPACT
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<br />FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1949
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<br />. UNITED STATES SENATE,
<br />COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS,
<br />WashingtQn, D. O.
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<br />The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10 :30 a. m., in room 224,
<br />Senate Office Building, Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney (chairman)
<br />presiding,
<br />Present: Senators O'Mahoney (chairman), Kerr, Millikin, .and.
<br />Malone.
<br />Also present: Senator Schoeppel.
<br />The CHAIRMAN. This hearing has been called to consider S. 1448,
<br />introduced in the Senate on March 29, 1949, by Senator Johnson of
<br />Colorado for himself, Senator Millikin, Senator Reed, and Senato~
<br />Schoeppel, a bill.to grant the consent of the United States to the
<br />Arkansas River Compact.
<br />The bill will be made a part of the record at this point.
<br />(The bill is as follows:)
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<br />[So 1448, 8lst Cong., 1st sess.]
<br />A BILL To grant the consent of the United States to the Arkansas River compact
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<br />Be it enaoted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States
<br />of .America in Oongress Gssem1J.Jed, That the consent of Congress is hereby given
<br />to the compact, sign9d (after negotiations in whi-ch a represnetative of the
<br />Untted States, duly appointed by the President, participated, aud upon which he
<br />has reported to' the Oongress) by the Commissioners' for the States of Colorado
<br />and Kansas on December 14, 1948, at Denver, Colorado, and thereafter ratified
<br />by' the legislatures of each of the States aforesaid, which said compact reads as
<br />follows:
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<br />"ARKANSAS RIVER COMPACT
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<br />"The State of Colorado and the State of Kansas, parties signatory to this Com-
<br />pact (hereinafter referred to as 'Oolorado' and 'Kansas', respectively, or indi-.
<br />vldually as a 'State', or collectively as the 'States') having resolved to conclude a
<br />compact with respect to the waters of the Arkansas River, and' being moved by
<br />considerations of interstate comity, having appointed commissioners as follows :_
<br />'Henry O. Vidal, Gail L. Ireland, and Harry B. Mendenhall, for Colorado; and
<br />George S. Knapp, Edward F. Arn, William E. Leavitt, and Roland H. Tate, for
<br />Kansas' j and the consent of the Congress of the United States to negotiate and
<br />enter into an "interstate compact not later than January 1, 1950, haVing been
<br />granted by Public Law 34, 79th Congress', 1st Session, and pursuant thereto
<br />the Pret;Jident having designated Hans Kramer as the representative of the
<br />UIiited States, the said commissioners for COlorado and Kansas, after negotia-
<br />tions participated in by the representative of the United States, have agreed
<br />as follows:
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