OCR Text |
Show COLUMBIA RIVER TREATY 429 the amounts set forth in Article VI (1) of the Treaty. The consulta- tions shall begin promptly upon the determination of definite dates for the commencement of operation of the Canadian storages. 12. Canada and the United States of America are in agreement that the Treaty does not establish any general principle or precedent applicable to waters other than those of the Columbia River Basin and does not detract from the application of the Boundary Waters Treaty, 1909, to other waters. NOTES This treaty is officially styled "Treaty Between the United States of America and Canada Relating to Cooperative Development of the Water Resources of the Columbia River Basin." The text of the treaty and protocol above set out is taken from TIAS 5638 (15 U.S.T. 1555). Ratification was advised by the Senate March 16,1961; the treaty was ratified by the President March 23,1961 and by Canada September 16, 1964; ratifications were exchanged at Ottawa September 16,1964; and the treaty was proclaimed by the President on the same date. For the proceedings leading to the advice and consent of the Senate, see 107 Cong. Bee. 4131-4145 (1961). The transcript of the hearings before the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate was printed. For background, see the statements of Len Jordan, chairman of the United States section, International Joint Commission, to the Com- mission on April 2,1957 (37 Department of State Bulletin 34 (1957)) and Douglas McKay, chairman of the United States section, Inter- national Joint Commission, to the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs on May 7,1958 (38 ibid. 1062 (1958)); the report of the International Joint Commission dated December 30, 1959? to the governments of Canada and the United States entitled "Principles for Determining and Apportioning Benefits from Cooperative Use of Storage of Waters and Electrical Interconnection Within the Columbia River System", referred to in 42 ibid. 126 (1960) ; the statement of President Eisenhower on October 19, 1960, on the agree- ment that had been reached between the two governments on the basis of which the drafting of a treaty could go forward (43 ibid. 831 (I960)); the letter dated January 17, 1961 from President Eisen- hower transmitting the treaty to the Senate and from the Secretary of State to President Eisenhower recommending that this be done and outlining the treaty provisions and their background (44 ibid. 228 (1961)); and the statement by Ivan B. White before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on March 8, 1961 (44 ibid. 492 (1961)). Prior to ratification of the treaty by Canada, the protocol had been agreed to in an exchange of notes between the Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs and the Secretary of State of the United States dated January 22, 1964. On the same date there was a further exchange of notes, also set out in TIAS 5638, in which it was recog- nized and agreed that- "* * * it would be in the public interest of both countries if Canada's entitlement to downstream power benefits could be dis- posed of, as contemplated by Article VIII of the Treaty, in ac- cordance with general conditions and limits similar to those set |