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Show NORTH PLATTE RIVER LITIGATION 775 held in storage at any one time, including carryover storage, shall never exceed 100,000 acre feet. Such storage water shall be disposed of in accordance with contracts to be hereafter executed, and it may be used for the irrigation of lands in the basin of the North Platte Eiver in western Nebraska to the extent of 25,000 acre feet annually, and for the irrigation of lands in the basin of the North Platte River in southeastern Wyoming below Guernsey Reservoir to the extent of 15,000 acre feet annually, provided that it shall not be used as a sub- stitute for storage water contracted for under any existing permanent arrangements. The above limitation on storage of natural flow does not apply to flood water which may be temporarily stored in any capacity allocated for flood control in the Glendo Reservoir, nor to water originally stored in Pathfinder Reservoir which may be tem- porarily re-stored in Glendo Reservoir after its release from Path- finder and before its deliverypursuant to contract; nor to water which may be impounded behind Glendo Dam, as provided in the Bureau of Reclamation Definite Plan Report for the Glendo Unit dated De- cember 1952, for the purpose of creating a head for the development of water power. " (c) Paragraph III of the decree is amended to read as follows: "III. The State of Wyoming, its officers, attorneys, agents and em- ployees, be and they are hereby severally enjoined from storing or per- mitting the storage of water in Pathfinder, Guernsey, Seminoe, Alcova and Glendo Reservoirs otherwise than in accordance with the relative storage rights, as among themselves, of such reservoirs, which are hereby denned and fixed as follows: First, Pathfinder Reservoir; Second, Guernsey Reservoir; Third, Seminoe Reservoir; Fourth, Alcova Reservoir; and Fifth, Glendo Reservoir; Provided, however that water may be impounded in or released from Seminoe Reservoir, contrary to the foregoing rule of priority opera- tion for use in the generation of electric power when and only when such storage or release will not materially interfere with the adminis- tration of water for irrigation purposes according to the priority decreed for the French Canal and the State Line Canals. "Storage rights of Glendo Reservoir shall be subject to the provi- sions of this paragraph III. " (d) Paragraph IV of the decree is amended to read as follows: "IV. The State of Wyoming, its officers, attorneys, agents and em- ployees be and they are hereby severally enjoined from storing or permitting the storage of water in Pathfinder, Guernsey, Seminoe, Alcova and Glendo Reservoirs, and from the diversion of natural flow water through the Casper Canal for the Kendrick Project between and including May 1 and September 30 of each year otherwise than in accordance with the rule of priority in relation to the appropriations of the Nebraska lands supplied by the French Canal and by the State Line Canals, which said Nebraska appropriations are hereby adjudged to be senior to said five reservoirs and said Casper Canal, and which said Nebraska appropriations are hereby identified and defined, and |