WSP08505

• File Number: 8103.400
• Description: Arkansas River Compact Administration - Article VIII Investigations
• Basin: Arkansas
• Date: 4/6/1949
• Author: Hans Kramer
• Title: Report to Congress of the United States on Proposed Arkansas River Compact
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

report with the relatively minor items of Federal interest which ~ere

considered in the formulation of the proposed compact. It can be
stated, however, that all of these minor items, as well as the major
ones, were handled to the mutual satisfaction of the compact negotiators
and the affected Federal agencies. This statement is attested to by
expressions of approval from eaoh interested Federal department or agency
to which the proposed compact was submitted in draft form for review and
comment prior to its: adoption and signature. It is realized, of course,
that these expressions do not take the place of the official reports
on proposed legislation that those same departments and agencies will
be called upon to mm(e to the appropriate committees of the Congress.
They do indicate, however - and it was deemed essential to the ultimate
success, of the compact negotiations to have such an indication - that
the proposed compact adequately and acceptably covers the interests: of
the United States. The attainment of that objective was due in great
measure to the sincere desire and effective cooperation on the part
of all interested Federal agencies toward resolving the long-standing
interstate controversy.

(b) John Martin Reservoir Proj~~~

The most immediate concern of the United States in the

proposed compact lies in the functional responsibilities of the Corps

~f Engineers with respect to the John Martin Project as summarized ire

Section 6 of this report. These responsibilities have been fully

recognized throughout the proposed compact. However, inasmuch as the

compact document is basically an agreement between the two signatory

States without including the United States as a third party, it was

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