§ 37-64-101 — Animas-La Plata project compact

The general assembly hereby
ratifies the compact designated as the Animas-La Plata Project Compact to which
the consent of congress was given by Public Law 90-537, section 501 (c), approved
September 30, 1968, by the senate and house of representatives of the United
States of America. Said compact is as follows:

ANIMAS-LA PLATA PROJECT COMPACT

The State of Colorado and the State of New Mexico, in order to implement
the operation of the Animas-La Plata Federal Reclamation Project, Colorado-New
Mexico, a proposed participating project under the Colorado River Storage Project
Act (70 Stat. 105; 43 U.S.C. 620) and being moved by considerations of interstate
comity, have resolved to conclude a compact for these purposes and have agreed
upon the following articles:

ARTICLE I

A. The right to store and divert water in Colorado and New Mexico from the
La Plata and Animas River systems, including return flow to the La Plata River from
Animas River diversions, for uses in New Mexico under the Animas-La Plata Federal
Reclamation Project shall be valid and of equal priority with those rights granted by
decree of the Colorado state courts for the uses of water in Colorado for that
project providing such uses in New Mexico are within the allocation of water made
to that state by articles III and XIV of the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact (63
Stat. 31).

B. The restrictions of the last sentence of Section (a) of Article IX of the
Upper Colorado River Basin Compact shall not be construed to vitiate paragraph A
of this article.

ARTICLE II

This Compact shall become binding and obligatory when it shall have been
ratified by the legislatures of each of the signatory States.

Legislative History

Source: L. 69: p. 1231, � 1. C.R.S. 1963: � 149-13-1.