Common use of Principles of apportionment Clause in Contracts

Principles of apportionment. The physical and other conditions peculiar to the Big Blue river basin constitute the basis for this apportionment, and neither of the signatory states hereby, nor the congress of the United States by its consent hereto, concedes that this apportionment establishes any general principle with respect to any other interstate stream. The states of Kansas and Nebraska subscribe to the principle of including storage capacity for low-flow regulation in reservoirs constructed by the U.S. bureau of reclamation and the U.S. army corps of engineers, and to the principle of such administration as is required to assure that water released from storage for low-flow regulation shall remain available in the stream to accomplish its intended purpose.