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Show -55- In computing the amount of accrued credits and accrued debits of Colorado or New Mexico, any annual credits in excess of 150,000 acre feet shall be taken as equal to that amount. In any year in which actual spill occurs, the accrued credits of Colorado, or New Mexico, or both, at the beginning of the year shall be reduced in proportion to their respective credits by the amount of .such actual spill; provided, that the amount of actual spill shall be deemed to be increased by the aggregate gain in the amount of water in storage, prior to the time of spill, in reservoirs above San Marcial constructed after 1929; pro- vided, further, that if the Commissioners for the States having accrued credits authorize the release of part, of all, of such credits in advance of spill, the amount so released shall be deemed to constitute actual spill« In any year in which there is actual spill of usable water, or at the time of hypothetical spill thereof, all accrued debits of Colorado, or New Mexico, or both;, at the beginning of the year shall be cancelled. In any year in which the aggregate of accrued debits of Colorado and Hew Mexico exceeds the minimum unfilled capacity of project storage,, such debits shall be reduced proportionally to an aggregate amount equal to such minimum unfilled capacity.. To the extent that accrued credits are impounded in reservoirs between San Marcial and Courchesne and to the extent that accrued debits are impounded in reservoirs above San Marcial, such credits and debits shall be reduced annually to compensate for evaporation losses in the porperties that such credits- or debits bore to the total amount of water in such reservoirs during the year* .ARTICLE VII.. Neither Colorado nor New Mexico shall increase the amount of water in storage in reservoirs constructed after 1929 whenever there is less than 1400,000 acre feet of usable water in project storagej provided, that if the ~ actual releases of usable water from the beginning of the calendar year following the effective date of this Compact, or from the beginning of the calendar year following actual spill, have aggregated more than an average of 790,000 acre feet per annum,,, the time at which such minimum stage is reached shall be adjusted to compensate for the difference between the total actuaL release and releases at such average rate; provided, further, that Colorado or New Mexico, or both, may relinquish accrued credits at any time, and Texias may accept; such relinquished water^ and in such event the state, or states, so relinquishing shall bo entitled to store water in the amount of the water so relinquished* ARTICLE VIII. During the month of January of any year the Commissioner for Texas may demand of Colorado and New Mexico, and the Commissioner for New Mexico may demand of Colorado, the release of water from storage reservoirs constructed after 1929 to the amount of the accrued debits of Colorado and New Mexico, respectively,, and such releases shall be made by each at the greatest rate practicable under the conditions then prevailing, and in proportion to the total debit of each, and in amounts, limited by their accrued debits, sufficient to bring the quantity of usable water in project storage to 600^000 acre feet by March and to maintain this quantity in storage until April |