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Show SABINE RIVER COMPACT 297 (f) The Administration shall have power to: (1) Adopt, amend and revoke bylaws, rules and regulations, and prescribe procedures for administration of and consistent with the provisions of this Compact. (2) Fix and determine from time to time the location of the Admin- istration's principal office; (3) Employ such engineering, legal, clerical and other personnel, without regard to the civil service laws of either State, as the Admin- istration may determine necessary or proper to supplement State- furnished assistance as hereinafter provided, for the performance of its functions under this Compact; provided, that such employee shall be paid by and be responsible to the Administration and shall not be considered to be employees of either State; (4) Procure such equipment, supplies and technical assistance as the Administration may determine to be necessary or proper to supple- ment State-furnished assistance as hereinafter provided, for the per- formance of its functions under this Compact; (5) Adopt a seal which shall be judicially recognized. (g) In cooperation with the chief official administering water rights in each State and with appropriate Federal agencies, the Admin- istration shall have and perform powers and duties as follows: (1) To collect, analyze, correlate, compile and report on data as to water supplies, stream flows, storage, diversions, salvage and use of the waters of the Sabine River and its tributaries, and as to all factual data necessary or proper for the administration of this Compact; (2) To designate as official stations for the administration of this Compact such existing water gauging stations (and to operate, main- tain, repair and abandon the same), and to locate, establish, construct, operate, maintain, repair and abandon additional such stations, as the Administration may from time to time find and determine neces- sary or appropriate: (3) To make findings as to the deliveries of water at Stateline, as hereinaboye provided, from the stream-flow records of the Stateline gauge which shall be operated and maintained by the Administration or in cooperation with the appropriate Federal Agency, for deter- mination of the actual Stateline flow unless the Administration shall find and determine that, because of changed physical conditions or for any other reason, reliable records are not obtainable thereat: in which case such existing Stateline station may with the approval of the Administration be abandoned and, with such approval, a sub- stitute Stateline station established in lieu thereof; (4) To make findings as to the quantities of reservoir storage (including joint storage) and releases therefrom, diversions, trans- mission losses and as to incident stream-flow changes, and as to the share of such quantities chargeable against or allocable to the respec- tive States; (5) To record and approve all points of diversion at which wTater is to be removed from the Sabine River or its tributaries below the Stateline; provided that, in any case, the State agency charged with the administration of the water laws for the State in which such point of diversion is located shall first have approved such point for removal or diversion; provided further that any such point of removal or diversion once jointly approved by the appropriate State agency and 94-497-69------20 |