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Show 16 INTERSTATE COMPACTS each of the states of Kansas and Oklahoma who shall be appointed by the governors of the respective states and, if designated by the presi- dent, one commissioner representing the United States. The president is hereby requested to designate a commissioner and an alternate repre- senting the United States. The federal commissioner, if one be desig- nated, shall be the presiding officer of the commission, but shall not have the right to vote in any of the deliberations of the commission. B. One Kansas commissioner shall be the state official who now or hereafter shall be responsible for administering water law in the state; the other two commissioners Shall reside in the Arkansas river basin in Kansas and shall be appointed to four-year staggered terms. C One Oklahoma commissioner shall be the state official who now or hereafter shall be responsible for administering water law in the state; the other two commissioners shall 'reside in the Arkansas river basin in Oklahoma and shall be appointed to four-year staggered terms. D. A majority of the commissioners of each state and the commis- sioner 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 account- ing 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, con- sistent 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 tlhe proper operating agency, to impound water, for such periods of time deemed necessary |