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Show Gostilla Greek Compact, 1963 The State of Colorado and the State of New Mexico, parties signa- tory to this compact (hereinafter referred to as "Colorado" and "New Mexico", respectively, or individually as a "State", or col- lectively as the "States"), having on September 30, 1944, concluded, through, their duly authorized Commissioners, to-wit.: Clifford H. Stone for Colorado and Thomas M. McClure for New Mexico, a com- pact with respect to the waters of Costilla Creek, an interstate stream, which compact was ratified by the States in 1945 and was approved by the Congress of the United States in 1946; and The States, having resolved to conclude an amended compact with respect to the waters of Costilla Creek, have designated, pursuant to the Acts of their respective Legislatures and through their appropriate executive agencies as their Commissioners: J. E. Whitten, for Colorado S. E. Reynolds, for New Mexico who, after negotiations, have agreed upon these articles: ARTICLE I The major purposes of this compact are to provide for the equitable division and apportionment of the use of the waters of Costilla Creek; to promote interstate comity; to remove causes of present and future interstate controversies; to assure the most efficient utilization of the waters of Costilla Creek; to provide for the integrated operation of existing and prospective irrigation facilities on the stream in the two States; to adjust the conflicting jurisdictions of the two States over irrigation works and facilities diverting and storing water in one State for use in both States; to equalize the benefits of water from Costilla Creek, used for the irrigation of contiguous lands lying on either side of the Boundary, between the citizens and water users of one State and those of the other; and to place the beneficial applica- tion of water diverted from Costilla Creek for irrigation by the water users of the two States on a common basis. The physical and other conditions peculiar to the Costilla Creek and its basin, and the nature and location of the irrigation develop- ment and the facilities in connection therewith, constitute the basis for this compact; and neither of the States hereby, nor the Congress of the United States by its consent, concedes that this compact estab- lishes any general principle or precedent with respect to any other interstate stream. ARTICLE II As used in this compact, the following names, terms and expressions are described, defined, applied and taken to mean as in this Article set forth: (a) "Costilla Creek" is a tributary of the Rio Grande which rises on the west slope of the Sangre de Cristo range in the extreme 85 |