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PUBLIC LAW 91-575-DEC. 24, 1970

[84 STAT.

facilities, properties, activities, and services which are determined by the commission to he necessary, convenient, or useful for the purposes of this compact. "2. Establish standards of planning, design, and operation of all projects and facilities in the basin to the extent they affect water resources, including without limitation thereto water, sewage and other waste treatment plants and facilities, pipelines, transmission lines, stream and lake recreational facilities, trunk mains for water distribution, local flood protection works, watershed management programs, and ground water recharging operations. "3. Conduct and sponsor research on water resources and their planning, use, conservation, management, development, control, and protection, and the capacity, adaptability, and best utility of each facility thereof, and collect, compile, correlate, analyze, report, and interpret data on water resources and uses in the basin, including without limitation thereto the relation of water to other resources, industrial water technology, ground water movement, relation between water price and water demand and other economic factors, and general hydrological conditions. "4. Collect, compile, coordinate, and interpret systematic surface and ground water data, and publicize such information when and as needed for water uses, flood warning, quality maintenance, or other purposes. "5. Conduct ground and surface water investigations, tests, and operations, and compile data relating thereto, as may be required to formulate and administer the comprehensive plan. "6. Prepare, publish, and disseminate information and reports concerning the water problems of the basin and for the presentation of the needs and resources of the basin and policies of the commission to executive and legislative branches of the signatory parties. "7. Negotiate loans, grants, gifts, services, or other aids as may be lawfully available from public or private sources to finance or assist in effectuating any of the purposes of this compact, and receive and accept them upon terms and conditions, and subjeot to provisions, as may be required by Federal or state law or as the commission may deem necessary or desirable. "8. Exercise such other and different powers as may be delegated to it by this compact or otherwise pursuant to law, and have and exercise all powers necessary or convenient to carry out its express powers and other powers which reasonably may be implied therefrom. "9. Adopt, amend, and repeal rules and regulations to implement this compact. "3.5—DtTTiES OF THE COMMISSION. The commission shall: " 1. Develop and effectuate plans, policies, and projects relating to water resources, adopt, promote, and coordinate policies and standards for water resources conservation, control, utilization, and management, and promote and implement the planning, development, and financing of water resources projects. "2. Undertake investigations, studies, and surveys, and acquire, ronstruct, operate, and maintain projects and facilities in regard to the w.^ter resources of the basin, whenever it is deemed necessary to do so to activate or effectuate any of the provisions of this compact. "3. Administer, manage, and control water resources in all matters determined by the commission to be interstate in nature or to have a major effect on the water resources and water resources management. "4. Assume jurisdiction in any matter affecting water resources whenever it determines after investigation and public hearing upon due notice given, that the effectuation of the comprehensive plan or

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