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<br />,0 <br /> <br />-.- -.j <br /> <br />.-.'1 <br /> <br />~0 <br /> <br />'. <br />, <br /> <br />~..~ <br />c:) <br />r ", <br />"',-' <br /> <br />(h) "Annual Credits" are the amo\mts by whioh aotual deliveries in <br />any calendar year exoeed soheduled deliveries. <br /> <br />(i) "Aoorued Debits" are the amounts by whioh the sum of all annual <br />debits exceeds the sum of all annual oredits over any common period of time. <br /> <br />(j) "Aocrued Credits" are the amo\mta by whioh the smn of all annual <br />oredits exoeeds the sum of all annual debits over any oommon period of time. <br /> <br />(k) "Project storage" is the oombined oapaoity of Elephant Butte Reser- <br />voir and all other reservoirs aotually available for the storage of usable <br />1l'9.ter below Elephant Butte and above the first diversion to lands <br />of the Rio Grande Projeot, but not more than a total of 2,638,860 aore teet. <br /> <br />(1) "Usable ~ater" is all 1l'9.ter, exolusive of oredit water, whioh is <br />in projeot storage and whioh is available for release in aooordance with <br />irrigation dmn~,ds, including deliveries to Mexico. <br /> <br />(m) "Credit Water" is that amount of _ter in projeot storage whioh <br />is equal to the aoorued credit of Colorado, or NewMex~co, or both. <br /> <br />(n) "Unfilled Capacity" is the difference between the total p~sioal <br />capaoity of project storage and the aoount of usable water then in storage. <br /> <br />(0) "Aotual Release" is the amo\mt of usable water released in any <br />calendar year from the lowest reservoir oomprising project storage. <br /> <br />(p) "Aotual Spill" is all water whioh is actually spilled from <br />Elephant Butte Reservoir, or is released therefrom for flood oontrol, in <br />exoess of the current demand on projeot storage and which does not become <br />usable water by storage in another reservoir; provided, that actual spill <br />of usable _ter cannot oocur until all oredit water shall have been spilled. <br /> <br />(q) "Hypothetioal Spill" is the time in any year at which usable _ter <br />would have spilled trom project storage if 790,000 acre feet had been re- <br />leased therefrom at rates proportional to the actual release in every year <br />from the starting date to the end of the year in whioh hypothetical spill <br />occurSJ in computing hypothetical spill the initial condition shall be the <br />amount of usable water in project storage at the beg1nnL,g of the oalendar <br />year following the etfeotive date of this Compact, end thereafter the in- <br />itial condition shall be the amount of usable water in project storage at <br />the beginning of the oalendar year following eaoh actual spill. <br /> <br />ARTICLE II. <br /> <br />!he COIIIIlission shall cause to be maintained and operated a stream <br />gaging station. equipped with an automatic water stage reoorderat eaoh of <br />the following points, to-wits <br />