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Show iii VOLUME IV PRINCIPLES OF EQUITABLE APPORTIONMENT OF THE WATERS OF INTERSTATE STREAMS INTERSTATE WATER COMPACTS CONTENTS 1. Principles of Equitable Apportionment of the Waters of Interstate Streams. Section XII of Report entitled, "Preservation of Integrity of State Water Laws," by National Reclamation Association, October, 1943, revised to date. 2. Interstate Water Compacts. Section XIII, Report on "Preservation of Integrity of State Water Laws," by National Reclamation Association, October, 1943. 3* Hinderlider, State Engineer, et al., v. La Plata River and Cherry Creek Ditch Co. (Decision in the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the Constitutionality of a Compact). 304 IT. S. 92. 4. Interstate Water Compacts of the State of Colorado. Compacts in effeot January 1, 1946 1. La Plata River Compact, between Colorado and New Mexico, approved January 29, 1925 Public No. 346, 68th Congress, (43 Stat. 796). 2. Colorado River Compact between Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, signed November 24, 1922, H. D. 605, 67th Congress, i+th Session* 3. South Platte River Compact, between Colorado and Nebraska, approved March 8, 1926, Public No. 37* 69th Congress, (kh Stat. 195). I4* Rio Grande Compact between Colorado, New Mexico and Texas, approved May 31, 1939, Public No. 96, 76th Congress, (53 Stat. 785). 5* Republican River Compact, between Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas, approved May 26, 19^4-3* Public No. 60, 78th Congress, (57 Stat. 86)• 6. Costilia Creek Compact, between Colorado and New Mexico, Ratified by Colorado, March 2i+, 19^5* ratified by New Mexico, April 9* 19^4-5• Approval now pending in Congress. 5« Extract from Hearing before the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of the United States Senate, 68th Congress, First Session, on S. 649» A Bill to Promote Flood Control in the Basin of the Republican River and for other Purposes, March JI, I9I4.3 (Republican River Compact). |
