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PUBLIC LAW 89-789-NOV. 7, 1966

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with all iiecessarj and appropriate powers, not inconsistent wit!) the fonstitution or the hiMS of the United States or of eitlier state, to i^^'ert the same, except the power to assess or levy taxes. "ARTIOLK VII E

"In witness thereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals under authority vested in us by law." (b) The right to alter, amend, or repeal this section is expiessly reserved. SEC. 107. (a) The consent of Congress is hereby given to the coni- interstate compact, signed by the compact representatives for the States of Kansas ^^consent of conand Oklahoma on the 81st day of March 1965, at Wichita, Kansas, gress. and thereafter ratified by the legislature of each of the States aforesaid, which compact is as follows: " A K K A X S A S R IV E R B A S I N COMPACT, KANSASOKLAHOMA ''The state of Kansas and the state of Oklahoma, acting through their duly authorized compact representatives, Robert L. Smith and Warden L. Noe, for the state of Kansas, and Geo. R. Benz and Frank Raab, for the state of Oklahoma, after negotiations participated in by Trigg Twichell, appointed by the president as the representative of the United States of America, and in accordance with the consent to such negotiations granted by an act of congress of the United States of America, approved August 11, 1955 (Public Law 340, 84th congress, 1st session), have agreed as follows respecting the waters of the Arkansas river and its tributaries: "ARTICLE I

"The major purposes of this compact are: A. To promote interstate comity between the states of Kansas and Oklahoma; " B. To divide and apportion equitably between the states of Kansas and Oklahoma the waters of the Arkansas river basin and to promote the orderly development thereof; "C. To provide an agency for administering the water apportionment agreed to herein; " D. To encourage the maintenance of an active pollution-abatement program in each of the two states and to seek the further reduction of both natural and man-made pollution in the waters of the Arkansas river basin. "ARTICLE

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"As used in this compact: A. The term 'state' shall mean either state signatory hereto and shall be construed to include any person or persons, entity or agency of either state who, by reason of official responsibility or by designation of the governor of that state, is acting as an official representative of that state; " B. The term 'Kansas-Oklahoma Arkansas river commission' or the term 'commission' means the agency created by this compact for the administration thereof; "C. The term 'Arkansas river' means that portion of the Arkansas river from a point immediately below the confluence of the Arkansas and Little Arkansas rivers in the vicinity of Wichita, Kansas, to a point immediately below the confluence of the Arkansas river with the Grand-Neosho river near Muskogee, Oklahoma;

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