PUBLIC LAW 96-189—FEB. 8, 1980
94 STAT. 14
"Name of Canal
Hilliard East Fork, Chapman
Francis Lee.
Date of priority
Primary right secondfeet
1914 8-13-86 8-13-86 4-12-12 5- 3-12 5-21-12 2- 6-13 8-28-05 1879 1879
28.00 16.46 98.46 .57 4.07 10.17 .79 »134.00 2.20 7.41
Lands irrigated Acres
State
2,644 1,155 6,892 40 285 712 55
Wyoming Wyoming Utah Wyoming Utah Utah Wyoming
154 519
Wyoming Utah
"' Under the right as herein confirmed not to exceed 134 second-feet may be carried across the Wyoming-Utah State line in the Chapman Canal at any time for filling the Neponset Reservoir, for irrigation of land in Utah and for other purposes. The storage right in Neponset Reservoir is for 6,900 acre-feet, which is a component part of the irrigation right for the Utah lands listed above.
Administration.
"All other rights to the use of water carried in interstate canals and ditches, as adjudicated in the State in which the point of diversion is located, are recognized and confirmed. "B. AH interstate rights shall be administered by the State in which the point of diversion is located and during times of water emergency, such rights shall be filled from the allocations specified in Article IV hereof for the Section in which the point of diversion is located, with the exception that the diversion of water into the Hilliard East Fork Canal, Lannon Canal, Lone Mountain Ditch, and Hilliard West Side Canal shall be under the administration of Wyoming. During times of water emergency these canals and the Lone Mountain Ditch shall be supplied from the allocation specified in Article IV for the Upper Wyoming Section Diversions. "ARTICLE XI
Applications.
Allocation status report.
"Applications for appropriation, for change of point of diversion, place and nature of use, and for exchange of Bear River water shall be considered and acted upon in accordance with the law of the State in which the point of diversion is located, but no such application shall be approved if the effect thereof will be to deprive any water user in another State of water to which he is entitled, nor shall any such application be approved if the effect thereof will be an increase in the depletion of the flow of the Bear River and its tributaries beyond the limits authorized in each State in Articles IV, V and VI of this Compact. The official of each State in charge of water administration shall, at intervals and in the format established by the Commission, report on the status of use of the respective allocations. "ARTICLE XII
"Nothing in this Compact shall be construed to prevent the United States, a signatory State or political subdivision thereof, person, corporation, or association, from instituting or maintaining any action or proceeding, legal or equitable, for the protection of any right under State or Federal law or under this Compact.
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