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COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION .EOARD 215 State Services Building
Denver 3, Colorado
April 1, 1960
That S. 72 as revised at the Colorado-New Mexico conference at Santa Fe, New Mexico, February 2-3, 1960, be
amended as follows:
Sec, 2. Provided, however, that the Secretary of the Interior shall so operate the project and Navajo Reservoir that the waters of the San Juan
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Rive en er1ng Navajo Reservoir shall be first utilized to the full extent of their availability
to satisfy downstream water uses in the State of New Mexico which are senior under the laws of the State of New Mexico to the Navajo Reservoir
stor-age and diversion rights, and shall make such releases from storage as are necessary to supply the water re -quirements of Indian tribes in the State of New Mexico diverting water from the San Juan River below Navajo
Dam, when, in the opinion of the Secretary, such water
requirements would otherwise constitute a lawful demand
against the State of Colorado for the release of water
originating on the Animas River in Colorado; Provided, further, that nothing in this Act or Section contained shall be construed as decreasing the quantity of water to which the State of New Mexico is entitled under the provisions of the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact
(63 Stat. 31).
