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Show RIO GRANDE COMPACT 289 1935, p. 983), and April 19, 1937 (Sess. L. 1937, p. 1056), by the New Mexico legislature in its Acts of February 25, 1935 (Laws 1935, p. 175) and March 13, 1937 (Laws 1937, p. 256), and by the Texas legislature in its Acts of April 18, 1935 (Laws 1935, p. 209), and April 26, 1937 (Laws 1937, p. 440). The consent of Congress to the first of these was given by the Act of June 5, 1935 (49 Stat. 325). Related legislation.-The Congress provided, in the Interior De- partment Appropriation Act, 1941 (54 Stat. 406, 438) that any works of the San Luis Valley project, Colorado, "to be constructed by virtue of investigations or surveys resulting from this appropriation, shall be so constructed and operated as not to interfere with the operation of or abrogate any of the terms of the Rio Grande Interstate Com- pact, and any contracts, permits, or licenses relating to such works entered into by the United States shall provide specifically that all rights thereunder shall be subject to and controlled by the provisions of said Rio Grande Interstate Compact." Section 203 of the Flood Control Act of 1948 (62 Stat. 1171,1179), approving the comprehensive plan of the Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation for the Rio Grande basin, provided that "Construction of the spillway gate structure at Chamita Dam shall be deferred so long as New Mexico shall have accrued debits as de- fined by the Rio Grande Compact and until New Mexico shall con- sistently accrue credits pursuant to the Rio Grande Compact" and that "At all times when New Mexico shall have accrued debits as de- fined by the Rio Grande Compact all reservoirs constructed as a part of the project shall be operated solely for flood control except as other- wise required by the Rio Grande Compact, and at all times all project works shall be operated in conformity with the Rio Grande Compact as it is administered by the Rio Grande Compact Commission." In providing for an investigation of the San Juan-Chama reclama- tion project, New Mexico, as an additional participating project under the Act of April 11, 1956 (70 Stat. 105,106), section 2 of the Act in- cluded a provision that "the storage for control and regulation of water imported from the San Juan River shall * * * be operated at all times hy the Bureau of Reclamation of the Department of the Interior in strict compliance with the Rio Grande Compact as admin- istered by the Rio Grande Compact Commission." See also sections 9 and 16 of the same Act and section 8(b) of the Act of June 13, 1962 (76 Stat. 96), authorizing construction of the San Juan-Chama project. Section 203 of the Flood Control Act of 1960 (74 Stat. 493), in au- thorizing instruction of certain works in the Rio Grande basin, also provided, among other things, that "when estimates of anticipated streamflow [of the Rio Grande] * * * indicate that the operation of reservoirs constructed as a part of the Middle Rio Grande project may affect the benefits accruing to New Mexico or Colorado, under the provisions of the eighth unnumbered paragraph of article VI of the Rio Grande compact, releases from such reservoirs shall be regulated to produce a flow of ten thousand cubic feet per second at Albuquerque, or such greater or lesser rate as may be determined by the Chief of Engineers at the time to be the maximum safe flow, whenever such operation shall be requested by the Rio Grande compact commissioner for New Mexico or the commissioner for Colorado, or both, in writing |