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(q) The term "irrigation season" is defined and means that period of each calendar year from May 16 to September 30, inclusive. (r) The term "storage season" is defined and means that period of time extending from October 1 of one year to May 15 of the succeeding year, inclusive. (s) The term "points of interstate delivery" means and includes (1) the Acequia Madre where it crosses the boundary; (2) the Costilla Creek where it crosses the boundary; (3) the Cerro Canal where it reaches the boundary; and (4) any other interstate canals which might be constructed with the approval of the commission at the point or points where they cross the boundary. (t) The term "water company" means The San Luis Power and Water Company, a Colorado corporation, or its 61/161401 YIN (u) The word "commission" means the Costilla Creek Compact commission created by Article VIII of this compact for the administration thereof. Article III 1. To accomplish the purposes of this compact, as set forth in Article I, the following adjustments in the operation of irrigation facilities on Costilla Creek, and in the use of water diverted, stored and regulated thereby, are made: (a) The quantity of water delivered for use in the two states by direct flow ditches in the Costilla -Garcia Area and by the Cerro Canal is based on a duty of water of one cubic foot per second of time for each eighty (80) acres, to be applied in the order of priority; provided, however, that this adjustment in each instance is based on the acreage as determined by the court in decreeing the water rights for the Costilla -Garcia Area, and in the case of the Cerro Canal such basis shall apply to eight thousand (8,000) acres of land. In order to better maintain a usable head for the diversion of water for beneficial consumptive use the adjusted maximum diversion rate under the water right of each of the ditches supplying water for the Costilla -Garcia Area in Colorado is not less than one cubic foot per second of time. (b) There is transferred from certain ditches in the Costilla -Garcia Area twenty-four and fifty-two hundredths (24.52) cubic feet per second of time of direct flow water rights, which rights of use are held by the water company or its successors in title, to the headgate of the Cerro Canal. The twenty-four and fifty-two hundredths (24.52) cubic feet of water per second of time hereby transferred represents an evaluation of these rights after adjustment in the duty of water, pursuant to subsection (a) of this Article, and includes a reduction thereof to compensate for increased use of direct flow water which otherwise would have been possible under these rights by this transfer. (c) Except for the rights to store water from Costilla Creek in Eastdale Reservoir No. 1 as hereinafter provided, all diversion and storage rights from Costilla Creek for Eastdale Reservoirs No. 1 and No. 2 are relinquished and the water decreed thereunder is returned to the creek for use in accordance with the plan of integrated operation effectuated by this compact. (d) The Cerro Canal direct flow permit shall be seventy-five and forty-eight hundredths (75.48) cubic feet per second of time. (e) There is transferred to and made available for the irrigation of lands in Colorado a portion of the Costilla Reservoir complement of the Costilla Reservoir System Safe Yield in order that the storage of water in that reservoir may be made for the benefit of water users in both Colorado and New Mexico under the provisions of this compact for the allocations of water and the operation of facilities. 2. Each state grants for the benefit of the other and its water users the rights to change the points of diversion of water from Costilla Creek, to divert water from the stream in one state for use in the other and to store water in one state for the irrigation of lands in the other, insofar as the exercise of such rights may be necessary to effectuate the provisions of this Article and to comply with the terms of this compact.