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Show 364 INTERSTATE COMPACTS regulations. All such rules and regulations shall be filed in the office of the State Engineer of each of the signatory States for public inspection. F. In case of the failure of the representatives of Wyoming and Montana to unanimously agree on any matter necessary to the proper administration of this Compact, then the member selected by the Director of the United States Geological Survey shall have the right to vote upon the matters in disagreement and such points of disagree- ment shall then be decided by a majority vote of the representatives of the States of Wyoming and Montana and said member selected by the Director of the United States Geological Survey, each being entitled to one vote. G. 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. ARTICLE IV The Commission shall itself, or in conjunction with other respon- sible agencies, cause to be established, maintained, and operated such suitable water gaging and evaporation stations as it finds necessary in connection with its duties. ARTICLE V A. Appropriative rights to the beneficial uses of the water of the Yellowstone River System existing in each signatory State as of January 1, 1950, shall continue to be enjoyed in accordance with the laws governing the acquisition and use of water under the doctrine of appropriation. B. Of the unused and unappropriated waters of the Interstate tributaries of the Yellowstone River as of January 1, 1950, there is allocated to each signatory State such quantity of that water as shall be necessary to provide supplemental water supplies for the rights described in paragraph A of this Article V, such supplemental rights to be acquired and enjoyed in accordance with the laws governing the acquisition and use of water under the doctrine of appropriation, and the remainder of the unused and unappropriated water is allocated to each State for storage or direct diversions for beneficial use on new ] ands or for other purposes as follows: 1. Clarks Fork, Yellowstone River a. To Wyoming_________________________________60% To Montana__________________________________40% b. The point of measurement shall be below the last diversion from Clarks Fork above Rock Creek. 2. Bighorn River (Exclusive of Little Bighorn River) a. To Wyoming_________________________________80% To Montana__________________________________20% b. The point of measurement shall be below the last diversion from the Bighorn River above its junction with the Yel- lowstone River, and the inflow of the Little Bighorn River shall be excluded from the quantity of water sub- ject to allocation. |