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Show NORTH PLATTE RIVER LITIGATION 773 age contracts in addition to the water which is discharged through those reservoirs to meet natural flow uses permitted by this decree; (c) "Natural flow water" shall be taken as referring to all water in the stream except storage water; (d) Eeturn flows of Kendrick Project shall be deemed tobe "nat- ural flow water" when they have reached the North Platte Eiver, and subject to the same diversion and use as any other natural flow in the stream. XII. This decree shall not affect: (a) The relative rights of water users within any one of the States who are parties to this suit except as may be otherwise specifically provided herein; (b) Such claims as the United States has to storage water under Wyoming law; nor will the decree in any way interfere with the ownership and operation by the United States of the various federal storage and power plants, works and facilities. (c) The use or disposition of any additional supply or supplies of water which in the future may be imported into the basin of the North Platte Eiver from the water shed of an entirely separate stream, and which presently do not enter said basin, or the return flow from any such supply or supplies. (d) The apportionment heretofore made by this Court between the States of Wyoming and Colorado of the waters of the Laramie Eiver, a tribu tary of the North Platte Eiver; (e) The apportionment made by the compact between the States of Nebraska and Colorado, apportioning the water of the South Platte Eiver. XIII. Any of the parties may apply at the foot of this decree for its amendment or for further relief. The Court retains jurisdiction of this suit for the purpose of any order, direction, or modification of the decree, or any supplementary decree, that may at any time be deemed proper in relation to the subject matter in controversy. Matters with reference to which further relief may hereafter be sought shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following: (a) The question of the applicability and effect of the Act of August 9,1937, 50 Stat. 564, 595-596, upon the rights of Colorado and its water users when and if water hereafter is available for storage and use in connection with the Kendrick Project in Wyoming. (b) The question of the effect upon the rights of upstream areas of the construction or threatened construction in downstream areas of any projects not now existing or recognized in this decree; (c) The question of the effect of the construction or threatened construction of storage capacity not now existing on tributaries enter- ing the North Platte Eiver between Pathfinder Eeservoir and Guern- sey Eeservoir; (d) The question of the right to divert at or above the headgate of the Casper Canal any water in lieu of, or in exchange for, any water developed by artificial drainage to the river of sump areas on the Kendrick Project; (e) Any question relating to the joint operation of Pathfinder, Guernsey, Seminoe and Alcova Eeservoirs whenever changed condi- tions make such joint operation possible |