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Show APPENDIX H RESOLUTION LITTLE SNAKE RIVER-INTERSTATE PRIORITY SCHEDULE WHEREAS, Article XI, Section (a) (2), of the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact provides that ''Water diverted from the main stem of the Little Snake River below a point one hundred feet below the confluence of Savery Creek and the Little Snake River shall be administered on the basis of an interstate priority schedule prepared by the Commission in conformity with priority dates established by the laws of the respective States"; and WHEREAS, under date of August 22, 1950, the Hon. M. C. Hinderlider, State Engineer of Colorado, and the Hon. L. C. Bishop, State Engineer of Wyoming, were requested to join in the preparation of an initial draft of schedule of water rights on the Little Snake River; and WHEREAS, under date of November 25, 1950, a tabulation of adjudicated and valid water rights for the diversion and appropriation of water from Little Snake River in Wyoming, below a point one hundred feet below the confluence of Savery Creek and the Little Snake River, which had been prepared from the records of the State Engineer and State Board of Control of Wyoming, was forwarded to the Upper Colorado River Commission; and WHEREAS, under date of April 16, 1951, a list of decreed Colorado ditches, which divert from the main stem of the Little Snake River below a point one hundred feet below the confluence of Savery Creek and the Little Snake River, was submitted by the office of the State Engineer of Colorado to the Upper Colorado River Commission; and WHEREAS, a proposed interstate priority schedule, attached hereto and marked "Exhibit A," was then prepared by the Chief Engineer of the Upper Colorado River Commission, and copies thereof were forwarded to the offices of the State Engineers of Colorado and Wyoming, respectively, under date of August 21, 1951, and comments thereon were solicited; and WHEREAS, no suggestions or critical comments thereon have been received: NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, That the said interstate priority schedule, attached hereto and marked "Exhibit A," is hereby approved and shall constitute the basis for administration of diversions within Colorado and Wyoming, respectively, from the main stem of the Little Snake River below a point one hundred feet below the confluence of Savery Creek and the Little Snake River. -49- |