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Show Bear River Compact, 1955 The State of Idaho, the State of Utah, and the State of Wyoming, acting through their respective Commissioners after negotiations participated in by a representative of the United States of America appointed by the President, have agreed to a Bear River Compact as follows: ARTICLE I A. The major purposes of this Compact are to remove the causes of present and future controversy over the distribution and use of the waters of the Bear River; to provide for efficient use of water for multiple purposes; to permit additional development of the water resources of Bear River; and to promote interstate comity. B. The physical and all other conditions peculiar to the Bear River constitute the basis for this Compact. No general principle or prec- edent with respect to any other interstate stream is intended to be established. ARTICLE II As used in this Compact the term- 1. "Bear River" means the Bear River and its tributaries from its source in the Uinta Mountains to its mouth in Great Salt Lake; 2. "Bear Lake" means Bear Lake and Mud Lake; 3. "Upper Division" means the portion of Bear River from its source in the Uinta Mountains to and including Pixley Dam, a diver- sion dam in the Southeast Quarter of Section 25, Township 23 North, Range 120 West, Sixth Principal Meridian, Wyoming; 4. "Central Division" means the portion of the Bear River from Pixley Dam to and including Stewart Dam, a diversion dam in Sec- tion 34, Township 13 South, Range 44 East, Boise Base and Meridian, Idaho; 5. "Lower Division" means the portion of the Bear River between Stewart Dam and Great Salt Lake, including Bear Lake and its tribu- tary drainage; 6. "Upper Utah Section Diversions" means the sum of all diver- sions in second-feet from the Bear River and the tributaries of the Bear River joining the Bear River upstream from the point where the Bear River crosses the Utah-Wyoming State line above Evanston, Wyoming; excluding the diversions by the Hilliard East Fork Canal, Lannon Canal, Lone Mountain Ditch, and Hilliard West Side Canal; 7. "Upper Wyoming Section Diversions" means the sum of all di- versions in second-feet from the Bear River main stem from the point where the Bear River crosses the Utah-Wyoming State line above Evanston, Wyoming, to the point where the Bear River crosses the Wyoming-Utah State line east of Woodruff, Utah, and including the 20 |
