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Show 24 INTERSTATE COMPACTS determined by the Commission, a report of expenditures during the current biennium, and an estimate of requirements for the following biennium. ARTICLE IV Rights to direct flow water shall be administered in each signatory State under State law, with the following limitations: A. When there is a water emergency, as hereinafter defined for each division, water shall be distributed therein as provided below. 1. Upper Division a. When the divertible flow as defined below for the Upper Division is less than 1,250 second-feet, a water emergency shall be deemed to exist therein and such divertible flow is allocated for diversion in the river sections of the Division as follows: Upper Utah Section Diversions, 0.6 percent, Upper Wyoming Section Diversions, 49.3 percent, Lower Utah Section Diversions, 40.5 percent, Lower Wyoming Section Diversions, 9.6 percent. Such divertible flow shall be the total of the following five items: (1) Upper Utah Section Diversions in second-feet, (2) Upper Wyoming Section Diversions in second-feet, (3) Lower Utah Section Diversions in second-feet, (4) Lower Wyoming Section Diversions in second-feet, (5) The flow in second-feet passing Pixley Dam. b. The Hilliard East Fork Canal, Lannon Canal, Lone Moun- tain Ditch, and Hilliard West Side Canal, which divert water in Utah to irrigate lands in Wyoming, shall be supplied from the divertible flow allocated to the Upper Wyoming Section Diversions. c. The Chapman, Bear River, and Francis Lee Canals, which divert water from the main stem of Bear River in Wyoming to irrigate lands in both Wyoming and Utah, shall be supplied from the divertible flow allocated to the Upper Wyoming Section Diversions. d. The Beckwith Quinn West Side Canal, which diverts water from the main stem of Bear River in Utah to irrigate lands in both Utah and Wyoming, shall be supplied from the divertible flow allocated to the Lower Utah Section Diversions. e. If for any reason the aggregate of all diversions in a river section of the Upper Division does not equal the allocation of water thereto, the unused portion of such allocation shall be avail- able for use in the other river sections in the Upper Division in the following order: (1) In the other river section of the same State in which the unused allocation occurs; and (2) In the river sections of the other State. No permanent right of use shall be established by the distribution of water pursuant to this para- graph e. f. Water allocated to the several sections shall be distributed in each section in accordance with State law. |