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(0 ,,-j ...j ~.'" \,:~: (..) (j) "Acorued Credits" ....e the 8lI10unts by whioh the sum of all annual oredits exceeds the sum of all annual debits 0....1' any oommon period of time. .1 (k) "Project storage" is the oombined oapaoity of Elephant Butte Reservoir and all other reservoirs actually available for the storage of usable water below !!:lephant Butte and above the first diversion to lands of the Rio Grande Project, but not more than a total of 2,638,860 aOre feet. (1) "Usable Water" is all water, exclusive of credit water, which is in project storage and which is available for release in accordance with irrigation demands, including deliveries to Mexico. (m) "Credit Water" is that amount of water in projsct storage which is equal to the accrued credit of Colorado, or New Mexico, or both. (n) It1Jnfilled Capaoi ty" is the differenoe between the total physios1 oapacity of projeot storags and the amount of u~ab1e water then in storage. (0) "Actual Rs1ease" ie the 8lI1ount of ueable water rc1eased in any oa1endar ye.... from the lowest reservoir oomprising project storage. (p) "Aotual Spill" is all water which is actually spilled from Elephant Butte Reservoir, or is released therefrom for flood control, in excess of the ourrent demand on projeot storage and whioh does not beoame usable watsr by storage in another reservoir I provided, that aotua1 spill of usable watsr oannot oocur until all oredit water shall.. have been spilled. (q) "aypothctica1 Spill" is the time in any year at which usable water would have spilled from projeot storage if 790,000 acre feet had been released therefrom at rates proportional to the actual release in <IVery year from the starting date to the end of the year in which hypothetical spill occurs I in computing hypothe- tioal spill the initial condition shall be the 8lI1ount of usable water in projeot storage at the beginning of the oalend.... year folloring the effeotive date of this Compaot, end thereefter the initial condition shall be the amount of usable water in project storage at the beginning of the oa1endar year following each aotua1 spill. ARTICLE II. The C=iss1on shall cause to be maintained and operated a stre8ll1 gaging station equipped with an automatic water stage reoorder at each of the following points, to.wit. (a) On the Rio Grande near Del Norte abo.... the principal points of diversion to the Sen Luis ValleYI (b) On the Conejos River near Mogotel (c) On the Los Pinos River near Ortizl (d) On the San Antonio River at Ortiz) (e) On the Conejos Ri....r at its mouths near Los Sauoes;