DWR_3375502

• Document Date: 12/31/1942
• Document Type - Division Filing: Compact, Agreement, or Memorandum of Understanding
• Division: 1
• WDID: 4999999
• WDID: 6599999
• Subject: 37-67-101: Republican River Compact

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