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Show RIO GRANDE COMPACT 285 at such stations and to that end may establish rules and regulations from time to time. "article iv "The State engineer of Colorado, the State engineer of New Mexico, and such officer of Texas as the Governor thereof may designate shall constitute a committee which may employ such engineering and cleri- cal aid as may be authorized by the respective State legislatures, and the jurisdiction of the committee shall extend only to the ascertainment of the flow of the river and to the prevention of waste of water, and to findings of fact reached only by unanimous agreement. It shall com- municate its findings of fact to the officers of the respective States charged with the performance of duties under this compact. Its find- ings of fact shall not 'be conclusive in any court or other tribunal which may be called upon to interpret or enforce this compact. Annual reports compiled for each calendar year shall be made by the com- mittee and transmitted to the governors of the signatory States on or before February 1 following the year covered by such report. "article v "It is agreed that to and until the construction of the Closed Basin Drain and the State Line Reservoir herein described, but not subse- quent to June 1, 1935, or such other date as the signatory States may hereafter fix by acts of their respective State legislatures, Colorado will not cause or suffer the water supply at the interstate gauging station to be impaired by new or increased diversions or storage within the limits of Colorado unless and until such depletion is offset by increase of drainage return. "ARTICLE VI "To the end that the maximum use of the waters of the Rio Grande may be made it is agreed that at such times as the State engineer of New Mexico, under the supervision and control of the committee, shall find that spill at Elephant Butte Dam is anticipated he shall forthwith give notice to Colorado and New Mexico of the estimated amount of such spill, and of the time at which water may be impounded or diverted above oan Marcial, and thereupon Colorado and New Mexico may use in equal portions the amount of such estimated spill so found by the State engineer of New Mexico; and on notice from the said State engineer of New Mexico that the period of said spill, or estimated spill, is terminated, Colorado and New Mexico shall de- sist from such increased use. "article vii "(a) On or before the completion of the Closed Basin Drain and the State Line Reservoir, and m any event not later than June 1, 1935, a commission of three members shall be constituted, to which the governor of each of the signatory States shall appoint a commissioner, for the purpose of concluding a compact among the signatory States |