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Show 30 INTERSTATE-COMPACTS ARTICLE X Applications for appropriation, for change of point of diversion, place and nature of use, and for exchange of Bear River water shall be considered and acted upon in accordance with the law of the State in which the point of diversion is located, but no such application shall be approved if the effect thereof will be to deprive any water user in another State of water to which he is entitled. The official of each State in charge of water administration shall, upon the filing of an application affecting Bear River water, transmit a copy thereof to the Commission. ARTICLE XI Nothing in this Compact shall be construed to prevent the United States, a signatory State or political subdivision thereof, person, cor- poration, or association, from instituting or maintaining any action or proceeding, legal or equitable, for the protection of any right under State or Federal law or under this Compact. ARTICLE XII Nothing contained in this Compact shall be deemed 1. to affect the obligations of the United States of America to the Indian tribes; 2. to impair, extend, or otherwise affect any right or power of the United States, its agencies or instrumentalities involved herein; nor the capacity of the United States to hold or acquire additional rights to the use of the water of the Bear River; 3. to subject any property or rights of the United States to the laws of the States which were not subject thereto prior to the date of this Compact; 4. to subject any property of the United States to taxation by the States or any subdivision thereof, nor to obligate the United States to pay any State or subdivision thereof for loss of taxes. ARTICLE XIII At intervals not exceeding twenty years, the Commission shall re- view the provisions hereof, and after notice and public hearing, may propose amendments to any such provision, provided, however, that the provisions contained herein shall remain in full force and effect until such proposed amendments have been ratified by the legislatures of the signatory States and consented to by Congress. ARTICLE XIV 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 XV Should a court of competent jurisdiction hold any part of this Compact to be contrary to the constitution of any signatory State or to the Constitution of the United States, all other severable provisions of this Compact shall continue in full force and effect. |
