WSP08102

• File Number: 8510.100.60
• Description: Rio Grande Compact Commission
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Date: 1/1/1987
• Title: Report of the Rio Grande Compact Commission 1987
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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RIO GRANDE COMPACT

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River, or the tributaries thereof, into the Rio Grande in
N~w Mexico, provided the present and prospective uses of
water in Colorado by other diversions from the San Juan
River, or its tributaries, are protected.

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ARTICLE X

In the event water from another drainage basin shall
be imported into the Rio Grande Basin by the United States
or Colorado or New Mexico, or any of them jointly, the
State having the right to the use of such water shall be
given proper credit therefor in the application of the
schedules.

ARTICLE XI

New Mexico and Texas agree that upon the effective
date of this Compact all controversies between said States
relative to the quantity or quality of the water of the Rio
Grande are composed and settled; however, no-t,hing herein
shall be interpreted to prevent reCOurse by a signatory
state to the Supreme Court of the United States for redress
should the character or quality of the water, at the point
of delivery, be changed hereafter by one signatory state
to the injury of another. Nothing herein shall be construed
as an admission by any signatory state that the use of
water for irrigation causes increase of salinity for which
the user is responsible in law.

ARTICLE XII

To administer the provisions of this Compact there
shall be constituted a Commission composed of One repre-
sentative from each state, to be known as the Rio Grande
Compact Commission. The State Engineer of Colorado shall
be ex-officio the Eio Grande Compact Commissioner for
Colorado. The State Engineer of New Mexico shall be ex-
officio the Rio Grande Compact Commissioner for New Mexico.
The Rio Grande Compact Commissioner for Texas shall be
appointed by the Governor of Texas. The President of the
United States shall be requested to designate a represent-
ative of the United States to sit with such Commission,
and such representative of the United States, if so desig-
nated by the President, shall act as Chairman of the
Commission without vote.

The salaries and personal expenses of the Rio Grande
Compact Commissioners for the three States shall be paid
by their respective States, and all other expenses incident
to the administration of this Compact, not borne by the
United States, shall be borne equally by the three States.

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