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Show KLAMATH RIVER BASIN COMPACT 193 3. Emergency rules and regulations may be adopted without a prior hearing, but in such case they may be effective for not longer than 90 days. 4. The commission shall publish its rules and regulations in con- venient form. ARTICLE X. STATUS OF INDIAN RIGHTS A. Nothing in this compact shall be deemed: 1. To affect adversely the present rights of any individual Indian, tribe, band or community of Indians to the use of the waters of the Klamath River Basin for irrigation. 2. To deprive any individual Indian, tribe, band, or community of Indians of any rights, privileges, or immunities afforded under Federal treaty, agreement or statute. 3. To affect the obligations of the United States of America to the Indians, tribes, bands or communities of Indians, and their reserva- tions. 4. To alter, amend or repeal any of the provisions of the Act of August 13,1954, (68 Stat. 718) as it may be'amended. B. Lands within the Klamath Indian Reservation, which are brought under irrigation after the effective date of this compact, whether before or after Section 14 of said Act of August 13, 1954, becomes fully operative, shall be taken into account in determining whether the 200,000 acre limitation provided in paragraph 1 of subdivision C of Article III has been reached. ARTICLE XI. FEDERAL RIGHTS Nothing in this compact shall be deemed: A. To impair or affect any rights, powers or jurisdiction in the United States, its agencies or those acting by_ or under its authority, in, over and to the waters of the Klamath River Basin, nor to impair or affect the capacity of the United States, its agencies or those acting by or under its authority in any manner whatsoever, except as otherwise provided by the federal legislation enacted for the implementation of this compact as specified in Article XIII. B. To subject any property of the United States, its agencies or in- strumentalities, to taxation by either state or any subdivision thereof, unless otherwise provided by Act of Congress. C. To subject any works or property of the United States, its agen- cies, instrumentalities or those acting by or under its authority, used in connection with the control or use of waters which are the subject of this compact, to the laws of any state to an extent other than the extent to which those laws would apply without regard to this com- pact, except as otherwise provided by the federal legislation enacted for the implementation of this compact as specified in Article XIII. D. To affect adversely the existing areas of Crater Lake National Park or Lava Beds National Monument, or to limit the operation of laws relating to the preservation thereof. E. To apply to the use of water for the maintenance, on the scale at which such land and water areas are maintained as of the effective date of this compact, of officially designated waterfowl management areas, including water consumed by evaporation and transpiration on water surface areas and water used for irrigation or otherwise in the |