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| | No. 126, Original: Kansas v. Nebraska - Amicus (On Motion for Leave to File) |
 | | The Republican River Basin is a 24,900-square-mile watershed, approximately 430 miles in length, that encompasses parts of northeastern Colorado (7,700 square miles), southwestern Nebraska (9,700 square miles), and northern Kansas (7,500 square miles). |
 | | The Republican River Compact imposes limitations on the quantity of water that Colorado and Nebraska may divert from the Republican River and its tributaries, based on an apportionment of the "virgin water supply." In accordance with Article IX of the Compact, the States have designated officials to administer the Compact's allocation limits. |
 | | Kansas and Nebraska disagree, at a fundamental level, on the meaning of the Republican River Compact, and none of the alternative fora that Nebraska identifies is capable of resolving that interstate dispute. |
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