Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 94 Part 3.djvu/665

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PUBLIC LAW 96-000—MMMM. DD, 1980

PUBLIC LAW 96-564—DEC. 22, 1980

94 STAT. 3309

Sweetwater Creek, and Washita River, together with all their tributaries in Texas which lie west of the 100th Meridian. (b) The annual flow within this subbasin is hereby apportioned sixty (60) percent to Texas and forty (40) percent to Oklahoma. SECTION 4.02. Subbasin 2—Intrastate and Interstate streams— Oklahoma. (a) This subbasin is composed of all tributaries of the Red River in Oklahoma and portions thereof upstream to the Texas-Oklahoma state boundary at longitude 100 degrees west, beginning from Denison Dam and upstream to and including Buck Creek. (b) The State of Oklahoma shall have free and unrestricted use of the water of this subbasin. SECTION 4.03. Subbasin 3—Intrastate streams—Texas. (a) This includes the tributaries of the Red River in Texas, beginning from Denison Dam and upstream to and including Prairie Dog Town Fork Red River. (b) The State of Texas shall have free and unrestricted use of the water in this subbasin. SECTION 4.04. Subbasin 4—Mainstem of the Red River and Lake Texoma. (a) This subbasin includes all of Lake Texoma and the Red River beginning at Denison Dam and continuing upstream to the TexasOklahoma state boundary at longitude 100 degrees west. (b) The storage of Lake Texoma and flow from the mainstem of the Red River into Lake Texoma is apportioned as follows: (1) Oklahoma 200,000 acre-feet and Texas 200,000 acre-feet, which quantities shall include existing allocations and uses; and (2) Additional quantities in a ratio of fifty (50) percent to Oklahoma and fifty (50) percent to Texas. SECTION 4.05. Special Provisions. (a) Texas and Oklahoma may construct, jointly or in cooperation with the United States, storage or other facilities for the conservation and use of water; provided that any facilities constructed on the Red River boundary between the two states shall not be inconsistent with the Federal legislation authorizing Denison Dam and Reservoir project. (b) Texas shall not accept for filing, or grant a permit, for the Dam construction of a dam to impound water solely for irrigation, flood construction. control, soil conservation, mining and recovery of minerals, hydroelectric power, navigation, recreation and pleasure, or for any other purpose other than for domestic, municipal, and industrial water supply, on the mainstem of the North Fork Red River or any of its tributaries within Texas above Lugert-Altus Reservoir until the date that imported water, sufficient to meet the municipal and irrigation needs of Western Oklahoma is provided, or until January 1, 2000, whichever occurs first. ARTICLE V APPORTIONMENT OF WATER—REACH II ARKANSAS, OKLAHOMA, TEXAS, AND LOUISIANA

Subdivision of Reach II and Allocation of Water Therein Reach II of the Red River is divided into topographic subbasins, and the water therein is allocated as follows: SECTION 5.01. Subbasin 1—Intrastate streams—Oklahoma.