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7 COOPERATIVE STUDIES and ACTIVITIES <br />Article VIII.G.0) of Arkansas River Compact requires the Administration <br />to cooperate with the chief official of each of the states of Colorado <br />and Kansas charged with the administration of water rights in their <br />respective states, and with the Federal agencies in systematically <br />determining and correlating the facts pertaining to the flow and <br />diversion of the water of the Arkansas River and to the operation and <br />siltation of John Martin Reservoir and other related structures. Article <br />VIII.G.(2) requests the Director of the United States Geological Survey, <br />the Commissioner of the United States Bureau of Reclamation, and the <br />Chief of Engineers, United States Army, to cooperate and collaborate <br />with the Administration and with appropriate state officials in such <br />determinations and correlations of stream flow and related data. Under <br />the By -Laws of the Administration, these cooperative studies and <br />activities are assigned to the Engineering Committee of the <br />Administration. <br />During the year covered by this report the Administration has received <br />excellent cooperation from all agencies referred to in the foregoing <br />provisions of the Compact. The United States Geological Survey <br />( "USGS ") has continued the operation of the compact gaging stations <br />and the analysis of and compilation of the hydrologic data presented in <br />this report and used in the administration of the Compact. The Corps <br />of Engineers continued to operate the conservation pool of John Martin <br />Reservoir in accordance with the terms of the Compact and the <br />resolutions and orders of the Administration. <br />10 ARCA 1949 <br />