WSP07699

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 6/1/1921
• Author: Delph E. Carpenter
• Title: Report and Supplemental Report of Delph E. Carpenter, Commissioner for Colorado on the Colorado River Commission in RE: Colorado River Compact
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

See, 2, Th~t the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act
is herewith expressly reserved,

Approved, Angnst 19, 192'1,

HIs'romOAI. MEMORANDUM IN RE OOLORADO RIVER,
AND BRIEF OF LAW OF IN'I'ERSTATE
OOMP AO'l'S,

Snbmitted by D~lph E. Oarpenter to Jndiciary Oommittee House
of Representatives 67th Oongress 1st Session, on J nne 4,
1921, at hearing in re H. R 6'82'1,

HISTORICAL MEMORANDUM

'1'he object of the pending legislation is to permit a settlement
respecting the future utilization and disposition of the waters of
the Oolorado River, aud of the streams tributary thereto, by com.
pact between the States of Arizona, Oalifornia, Oolorado, Nevada,
New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming,

The object is to determine the respective rights of the States
to .the use and disposition of the waters of thl's great river prior
to any further large construction or extensive utilization of these
waters, in order that the rights of the States and the Government
may be settled and determined in advance of construction and
before interstate 01' other controversies may arise,

The pending bill was introduced pursuant to resolution
adopted and signed by the governors of the seven States above
named at Denv~r, 0010" May 10, 1921, wherein it is recited that
each of the sevel\ States, whose territory includes in part the drain.
age of the Oolo~ado River, has already provided for adjustment
respecting the future utilization and disposition of the waters of
the stream and has appointed its commissioner to serve with com.
missioners from other interested States and with a commissioner
to be appointed for the United States for tbis general purpose,

The resolution reads as follows:

"Whereas the States of Arizona, Oalifornia, Oolorado, Nevada,
New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming have by appropriate legis-
lation authorized the governors of said States to appoint com-
missioners representing said States for the purpose of enter-
ing into a 'compact 01' agreement between said States and
between said States and the United States respecting the
futnre utilization and disposition of the waters of the 0010-
l'ado River and the streams tributary thereto; and

"Whereas the governors of said several States have named and

"

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