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Show 774 INTERSTATE ADJUDICATIONS (f) Any change in conditions making modification of the decree or the granting of further relief necessary or appropriate. XIVT The costs in this cause shall be apportioned and paid as fol- lows: the State of Colorado one-fifth; the State of Wyoming two- fifths; and the State of Nebraska two-fifths. Payment of the fees and expenses of the Special Master has been provided by a previous order of this Court. XV. The clerk of this Court shall transmit to the chief magistrates of the States of Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska, copies of this decree duly authenticated under the seal of this Court. NOTES On June 15, 1953, the Court, having received a joint motion of the parties to the above cause for approval of a stipulation dated January 14, 1953, and to modify and supplement the decree heretofore set out, entered an order (345 U.S. 981) approving the stipulation and modi- fying and supplementing the decree in the following respects: "1. In paragraph I (a) of the decree the figure '145,000' is sub- stituted for the figure '135,000'. "2. Paragraph XIII is amended by striking the first sentence and substituting for it the following: "Any of the parties may apply at the foot of this decree for its amendment or for further relief, except that for a period of five vears from and after June 15,1953, the State of Colorado shall not institute any proceedings for the amendment of the decree or for further relief. In the event that within said period of five years any other party applies for an amendment of the decree or for further relief, then the State of Colorado may assert any and all rights, claims or defenses available to it under the decree as amended. "3. Two new paragraphs, as follows, are added to the decree: "XVI. Whatever claims or defenses the parties or any of them may have in respect to the application, interpretation or construction of the Act of August 9,1937 (50 Stat. 564-595) shall be determined without prejudice to any party arising because of any development of the Kendrick Project occurring subsequent to October 1, 1951. "XVII. When Glendo Dam and Reservoir are constructed, the fol- lowing provisions shall be effective: " (a) The construction and operation of the Glendo Project shall not impose any demand on areas at or above Seminoe Reservoir which will prejudice any rights that the States of Colorado or Wyoming might have to secure a modification of the decree permitting an expansion of water uses in the natural basin of the North Platte River in Colorado or above Seminoe Reservoir in Wyoming. "(b) The construction and operation of Glendo Reservoir shall not affect the regimen of the natural flow of the North Platte River above Pathfinder Dam. The regimen of the natural flow of the North Platte River below Pathfinder Dam shall not be changed, except that not more than 40,000 acre feet of the natural flow of the North Platte River and its tributaries which cannot be stored in upstream reservoirs under the provisions of this decree may be stored m the Glendo Reservoir during any water year, in addition to evaporation losses on such storage, and further, the amount of such storage water that may be |