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This compact shall become operative when ratified by the legislature of each of the <br />states, and when consented to by the Congress of the United States by legislation <br />providing, among other things, that: <br />(a) Any beneficial consumptive uses by the United States, or those acting by or under <br />its authority, within a state, of the waters allocated by this compact, shall be made within <br />the allocations hereinabove made for use in that state and shall be taken into account in <br />determining the extent of use within that state. <br />(b) The United States, or those acting by or under its authority, in the exercise of <br />rights or powers arising from whatever jurisdiction the United States has in, over and to <br />the waters of the Basin shall recognize, to the extent consistent with the best utilization of <br />the waters for multiple purposes, that beneficial consumptive use of the waters within the <br />Basin is of paramount importance to the development of the Basin; and no exercise of <br />such power or right thereby that would interfere with the full beneficial consumptive use <br />of the waters within the Basin shall be made except upon a determination, giving due <br />consideration to the objectives of this compact and after consultation with all interested <br />federal agencies and the state officials charged with the administration of this compact, <br />that such exercise is in the interest of the best utilization of such waters for multiple <br />purposes. <br />(c) The United States, or those acting by or under its authority, will recognize any <br />established use, for domestic and irrigation purposes, of the waters allocated by this <br />compact which may be impaired by the exercise of federal jurisdiction in, over, and to <br />such waters; provided, that such use is being exercised beneficially, is valid under the <br />laws of the appropriate state and in conformity with this compact at the time of the <br />impairment thereof, and was validly initiated under state law prior to the initiation or <br />authorization of the federal program or project which causes such impairment. <br />IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the commissioners have signed this compact in <br />quadruplicate original, one of which shall be deposited in the archives of the department <br />of state of the United States of America and shall be deemed the authoritative original, <br />and of which a duly certified copy shall be forwarded to the governor of each of the <br />states. <br />Done in the city of Lincoln, in the state of Nebraska, on the 31 st day of December, in <br />the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred forty-two. <br />M. C. Hinderlider Commissioner for Colorado <br />George S. Knapp Commissioner for Kansas <br />Wardner G. Scott Commissioner for Nebraska <br />I have participated in the negotiations leading to this proposed compact and propose <br />to report to the Congress of the United States favorably thereon. <br />