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Show I 98 UPDATING THE HOOVER DAM DOCUMENTS State ratifications.-Arizona, Act of January 21, 1949 (Sess. L. 1949, p. 5; Ariz. Rev. Stat. Ann. 1956, sec. 45-581). Colorado, Act of February 2, 1949 (Sess. L. 1949, p. 498; Colo. Rev. Stat. 1963, sec. 149-8-1). New Mexico, Act of February 2, 1949 (Laws 1949, p. 9; N.M. Stat. 1953, sec. 75-34-3 note). Utah, Act of January 31, 1949 (Laws 1949, p. 25; 1953 Utah Code Ann. sees. 73-13-9ff). Wyoming, Act of January 25, 1949 (Sess. L. 1949. p. 7; 1945 Wyo. Stat. 1957, sec. 41-507). Congressional consent to compact.- Act of April 6, 1949 (63 Stat. 31, from which the text of the Compact above set out is taken. For legislative history, see S. 790 and H.R. 2325, 81st Congress; Senate Report 39 (Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs) and House Report 270 (Committee on Public Lands), 81st Congress; 95 Cong. Rec. 2758-2762, 3036-3041 (1949); Public Law 37, 81st Congress. Printed hearings on H.R. 2325. Related documents. -The report of the Federal representative is printed in Senate Document 8, 81st Congress. The Upper Colorado River Basin Compact Commission published, in mimeographed form, an undated three-volume Official Record of its proceedings, including the final report of its Engineering Advisory Committee and that Committee's "Inflow-Outflow Manual." Related legislation.-Act of April 11, 1956 (70 Stat. 105), authorizing construction by the Secretary of the Interior of the Colorado River Storage Project and participating projects; Act of June 13, 1962 (76 Stat. 96), authorizing construction of the Navajo and San Juan-Chama projects; Act of August 16, 1962 (76 Stat. 389), authorizing construction of the Fryingpan-Arkansas project; and the Act of September 30, 1968 (82 Stat. 885), authorizing construction of the Colorado River Basin project including, among others, the Central Arizona project. Animas-La Plata Project Compact. -Section 501, subsection (b), of the Act of September 30, 1968 (82 Stat. 885), which provides for construction of the Animas-La Plata Federal reclamation project, also provides that construction work shall not be begun until the States of Colorado and New Mexico have ratified a compact reading as follows: "The State of Colorado and the State of New Mexico, in order to implement the operation of the Animas-La Plata Federal Reclamation Project, Colorado-New Mexico, a proposed participating project under the Colorado River Storage Project Act (70 Stat. 105), and being moved by considerations of interstate comity, have resolved to conclude a compact for these purposes and have agreed upon the following articles: "ARTICLE I "A. The right to store and divert water in Colorado and New Mexico from the La Plata and Animas River systems, including return flow to the La Plata River from Animas River diversions, for uses in New Mexico under the Animas-La Plata Federal Reclamation Project shall be valid and of equal priority with those rights granted by decree of the Colorado state courts for the uses of water in Colorado for that project, providing such uses in New Mexico are within the allocation of water made to that state by articles III and XIV of the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact (63 Stat. 31). "B. The reestrictions of the last sentence of Section (a) of Article IX of the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact shall not be construed to vitiate paragraph A of this article. "ARTICLE II "This Compact shall become binding and obligatory when it shall have been ratified by the legislatures of each of the signatory States." Neither State has yet (September 1968) taken the action required by this provision. |
