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Show 242 INTERSTATE COMPACTS ARTICLE VI The following principles shall govern in regard to the apportion- ment made by Article III of this Compact: (a) The Report of the Engineering Advisory Committee, supple- mented by additional data hereafter accumulated, shall be used by the Commission in making administrative determinations. (b) Unless otherwise determined by the Commission, depletions by man's activities, state-line flows, quantities of water salvaged, and quantities of unappropriated flood waters shall be determined on the basis of three-year periods reckoned in continuing progressive series beginning with the first day of January next succeeding the ratifica- tion of this Compact. (c) Unless and until a more feasible method is devised and adopted by the Commission the inflow-outflow method, as described in the Re- port of the Engineering Advisory Committee, shall be used to: (i) Determine the effect on the state-line flow of any change in depletions by man's activities or otherwise, of the waters of the Peeps River in New Mexico. (ii) Measure at or near the Avalon Dam in New Mexico the quantities of water salvaged. (iii) Measure at or near the state line any water released from storage for the benefit of Texas as provided for in subparagraph (d) of this Article. (iy) Measure the quantities of unappropriated flood waters ap- portioned to Texas which have not been stored and regulated by reservoirs in New Mexico. (v) Measure any other quantities of water required to be meas- ured under the terms of this Compact which are susceptible of being measured by the inflow-outflow method. (d) If unappropriated flood waters apportioned to Texas are stored in facilities constructed in New Mexico, the following principles shall apply: (i) In case of spill from a reservoir constructed in and operated by New Mexico, the water stored to the credit of Texas will be considered as the first water to spill. (ii) In case of spill from a reservoir jointly constructed and operated, the water stored to the credit of either state shall not be affected. (iii) Reservoir losses shall be charged to each state in propor- tion to the quantity of water belonging to that state in storage at the time the losses occur. (iv) The water impounded to the credit of Texas shall be re- leased by New Mexico on the demand of Texas. (e) Water salvaged shall be measured at or near the Avalon Dam in New Mexico and to the quantity thereof shall be added a quantity equal to the quantity of salvaged water depleted by man's activities above Avalon Dam. The quantity of water salvaged that is appor- tioned to Texas shall be delivered by New Mexico at the New Mexico- Texas state line. The quantity of unappropriated flood waters im- pounded under paragraph (d) of this Article, when released shall be delivered by New Mexico at the New Mexico-Texas state line in the quantity released less channel losses. The unappropriated flood waters apportioned to Texas by this Compact that are not impounded in res- |