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Show 374 INTERSTATE COMPACTS "0. In addition to other powers and duties herein conferred upon the commission and the members thereof, the jurisdiction of the commission shall include the collection, correlation, and presentation of factual data, the maintenance of records having a bearing upon the administration of this compact, and, by unanimous action, the making of recommendations to the respective states upon matters connected with the administration of the compact. In connection with the performance of its duties hereunder, the commission may employ such services and make such expenditures as may be reason- ably necessary, within the limit of funds provided for that purpose by the respective states. The commission shall compile a report for each year ending September 30th, and shall transmit it to the gover- nors of the signatory states on or before December 31st of that year. "D. The secretary of war; the secretary of the interior; the secre- tary of agriculture; the chairman, federal power commission; the chief, federal weather bureau, or comparable officers of whatever federal agencies may succeed to the functions and duties of these agencies, and such other federal officers and officers of appropriate agencies of the signatory states having services or data useful or necessary to the compact commission, shall cooperate, ex officio, with the commission in the execution of its duty in the collection, correla- tion, and publication of records and data necessary for the proper administration of the compact; and these officers may perform such other services related to the compact as may be mutually agreed on with the commission. "E. The commission shall have power to formulate rules of pro- cedure, rules, and regulations, and to perform any and all acts it may find necessary to carry out the provisions of this compact, and to prescribe, issue, make, amend, and rescind such orders, rules, and regu- lations. All rules of procedure, rules, and regulations of the com- mission shall be filed m the office of the state engineer of each signa- tory state and shall be kept in a convenient form for public inspection and examination during reasonable business hours. "F. The commission herein authorized shall have power to sue and be sued in its official capacity in any federal court of the signatory states, and may adopt and use an official seal which shall be judicially noticed." (4) Article V of the 1944 Compact read as follows: "A. The States of Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming hereby agree that the waters of the Yellowstone river and its interstate tribu- taries shall be apportioned among said states as follows: "1.' Clarks Fork, Yellowstone River: "Each day, during the period May 1st to September 30th, inclusive, of each year, the first 1,600 acre-feet of mean divertible daily flow of the main stem of the Clarks Fork, Yellowstone river, determined immediately above the confluence of Rock creek with Clarks Fork in Montana, shall be divided fourteen (14) per cent to Wyoming and eighty-six (86) per cent to Montana; however, either state may tem- porarily divert, consume, or store for its beneficial use any unused part of the above flow allotted to the other, but no continuing right to such unused flow shall be established thereby. Unappropriated divertible daily flows in excess of 1,600 acre-feet occurring during the period May 1st to September 30th, inclusive, of each year, and all presently |
