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PUBLIC LAW 89.789-NOV. 7, 1966
basin in Oklahoma and shall be appointed to four-year staggered terms. "D. A majority of the commissioners of each state and the commissioner or his alternate representing the United States, if so designated, must be present to constitute a quorum. In taking any commission action, each signatory state shall have a single vote representing the majority opinion of the commissioners of that state. " E. The salaries and personal expenses of each commissioner shall be paid by the government which he represents. All other expenses which are incurred by the commission incident to the administration of this compact shall be borne equally by the two states and shall be paid by the commission out of the 'Kansas-Oklahoma Arkansas river commission fund.' Such fund shall be initiated and maintained by equal payments of each state into the fund. Disbursements shall be made from said fund in such manner as may be authorized by the commission. Such fund shall not be subject to the audit and accounting procedures of the states; however, all receipts and disbursements of funds handled by the commission shall be audited by a qualified independent public accountant at regular intervals, and the report of such audit shall be included in and become a part of the annual report of the commission. "ARTICLE
XI
"A, The commission shall have the power to: (1) Employ such engineering, legal clerical and other personnel as in its judgment may be necessary for the performance of its functions under the compact; " (2) Enter into contracts with appropriate state or federal agencies for the collection, correlation, and presentation of factual data, for the maintenance of records, and for the preparation of reports; "(3) Establish and maintain an office for the conduct of its affairs; " (4) Adopt rules and regulations governing its operations; "(5) Cooperate with federal agencies in developing principles, consistent with the provisions of this compact and with federal policy, for the storage and release of water from all-federal capacities of federal reservoirs, both existing and future within the Arkansas river basin, for the purpose of assuring their operation in the best interests of the states and the United States; "(6) Permit either state, with the consent of the proper operating agencT^, to impound water, for such periods of time deemed necessary or desirable by the commission, in available reservoir storage capacity which is not designated as conservation or new conservation storage capacity for subsequent release and use for any purpose approved by the commission; " (7) Hold hearings and take testimony and receive evidence at such times and places as it deems necessary; "(8) Secure from the head of any department or agency of the federal or state government such information, suggestions, estimates and statistics as it may need or believe to be useful for carrying out its functions and as may be available to or procurable" by the department or agency to which the request is addressed; " (9) Print or otherwise reproduce and distribute all of its proceedings and reports. " B. The commission shall: (1) Cause to be established, maintained and operated such stream, reservoir, or other gaging stations as may be necessary for the proper administration of the compact; "(2) Collect, analyze and report on data as to stream flows, wat«r quality, conservation storage, and such other information as is necessary for the proper administration of the compact;
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