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Show SNAKE RIVER COMPACT 317 "2. Administration of said Interstate Streams shall be by Commis- sioners designated jointly by the State Engineer of Wyoming and the Commissioner of Reclamation of Idaho. The salaries and expenses of said Commissioners shall be fixed by said officials; the total of such salary and expenses to be prorated between the two States ac- cording to areas under the rights administered in each State and to be collected under the applicable provisions of the laws of each State. "3. Each 'Interstate Stream' shall be administered as follows: "No diversion shall be limited to less than amounts which can be beneficially used so long as there is available water therefor. Whenever the available water supply falls below the amount so required, each acre of land with adjudicated water rights shall be entitled to an equal rate of diversion until such supply falls to one second foot of water for each seventy acres of land. Whenever the available water supply falls below this requirement, then and at such times the waters shall be delivered in the order of the priorities of the respective water rights at said rate of one second foot for each seventy acres of adjudicated rights. "4. The operation of all reservoirs located in Wyoming and serving Idaho lands other than those under canals diverting from 'Interstate Streams' shall be administered by Idaho officials in charge of ad- ministration in the area now known as District 36 and such officials shall have the same authority in connection with the operation of said reservoirs as they would have if such reservoirs were located in Idaho. Such reservoirs shall be deemed to have the same priorities in relation to water rights in Idaho as would prevail in the absence of State Boundaries; Provided, however, that water shall not be stored when needed for beneficial use on the herein designated 'Interstate Streams' without regard to statutory limitation on the duty of water and that such part of the capacity as may be serving lands on the 'Interstate Streams' shall be operated with regard only for the water rights on such 'Interstate Streams.' "article vii "1. Nothing in this compact shall be understood or construed to in any way limit or restrict the rights of the United States which have already been acquired, or which may hereafter be acquired in accordance with law, in the location, appropriation and diversion of water and the securing of permits for the same for irrigation and domestic purposes or the filing upon, and location of reservoir sites and the building of reservoirs thereon for the storage of water for irrigation purposes and the maintenance of same or for the building and maintenance of diversion works, ditches and other irrigation structures within any of the areas described in this compact, or in the distribution and use of water so acquired and irrigation works so constructed and controlled. "article viii "1. Except as modified by the terms of this compact the acquisition of water rights, the construction, maintenance and operation of res- ervoirs, ditches and other irrigation and diversion works in Wyo- ming by any citizen of Idaho, under the authority herein granted, |
