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[CITE: 43USC1512]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
                CHAPTER 32--COLORADO RIVER BASIN PROJECT
 
               SUBCHAPTER II--INVESTIGATIONS AND PLANNING
 
Sec. 1512. Mexican Water Treaty

    The Congress declares that the satisfaction of the requirements of 
the Mexican Water Treaty from the Colorado River constitutes a national 
obligation which shall be the first obligation of any water augmentation 
project planned pursuant to section 1511 of this title and authorized by 
the Congress. Accordingly, the States of the Upper Division (Colorado, 
New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming) and the States of the Lower Division 
(Arizona, California, and Nevada) shall be relieved from all obligations 
which may have been imposed upon them by article III(c) of the Colorado 
River Compact so long as the Secretary shall determine and proclaim that 
means are available and in operation which augment the water supply of 
the Colorado River system in such quantity as to satisfy the 
requirements of the Mexican Water Treaty together with any losses of 
water associated with the performance of that treaty: Provided, That the 
satisfaction of the requirements of the Mexican Water Treaty (Treaty 
Series 994, 59 Stat. 1219), shall be from the waters of the Colorado 
River pursuant to the treaties, laws, and compacts presently relating 
thereto, until such time as a feasibility plan showing the most 
economical means of augmenting the water supply available in the 
Colorado River below Lee Ferry by two and one-half million acre-feet 
shall be authorized by the Congress and is in operation as provided in 
this chapter.

(Pub. L. 90-537, title II, Sec. 202, Sept. 30, 1968, 82 Stat. 887.)

                       References in Text

    This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original ``this Act'', 
meaning Pub. L. 90-537, Sept. 30, 1968, 82 Stat. 885, as amended, known 
as the Colorado River Basin Project Act, which enacted this chapter and 
sections 616aa-1, 620a-1, 620a-2, 620c-1, and 620d-1 of this title, 
amended sections 616hh, 620, and 620a of this title, and enacted 
provisions set out as notes under sections 620, 620k, and 1501 of this 
title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short 
Title note set out under section 1501 of this title and Tables.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1552, 1571 of this title.
