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Show APPENDIX I 1-97 (e) Subjecting any property of the United States of America, its agencies or instrumentalities, to the laws of any State to any extent other than the extent to which such laws would apply without regard to this Compact. ARTICLE XX This Compact may be terminated at any time by the unanimous agreement of the signatory States. In the event of such termination, all rights established under it shall continue unimpaired. ARTICLE XXI This Compact shall become binding and obligatory when it shall have been ratified by the legislatures of each of the signatory States and approved by the Congress of the United States of America. Notice of ratification by the legislatures of the signatory States shall be given by the Governor of each signatory State to the Governor of each of the other signatory States and to the President of the United States of America, and the President is hereby requested to give notice to the Governor of each of the signatory States of approval by the Congress of the United States of America. In WITNESS WHEREOF, the Commissioners have executed six counterparts hereof each of which shall be and constitute an original, one of which shall be deposited in the archives of the Department of State of the United States of America, and one of which shall be forwarded to the Governor of each of the signatory States. Done at the City of Santa Fe, State of New Mexico, this 11th day of October 1948. Charles A. Carson Commissioner for the State of Arizona Clifford H. Stone Commissioner for the State of Colorado Fred E. Wilson Commissioner for the State of New Mexico Edward H. Watson Commissioner for the State of Utah L. C. Bishop Commissioner for the State of Wyoming Grover A. Giles Secretary Approved: Harry W. Bashore Representative of the United States of America NOTES Congressional consent to negotiations.-Section 19 of the Boulder Canyon Project Act (45 Stat. 1057, 1065), gave the Congress' consent "to the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming to negotiate and enter into compacts or agreements, supplemental to and in conformity with the Colorado River compact and consistent with this Act for a comprehensive plan for the development of the Colorado River and providing for the storage, diversion, and use of the waters of said river." The consent was given "upon condition that a representative of the United States, to be appointed by the President, shall participate in the negotiations and shall make report to Congress of the proceedings and of any compact or agreement entered into." It was also provided that no such compact should be effective until "approved" by the legislatures of the States and by the Congress. See also Article VI of the Colorado River compact, p. 55 ante. |