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oaaHS -19- 5. A compact may provide, in conformity with the rights and interests of the Federal Uovernment and in accordance with a unified basin-wide plan, for the manner of operation of project facilities. 6. It may specify the manner and extent of charging respective signatory states for reservoir evaporation losses. 7. It may provide the conditions under whia:h project facilities may be built in one state to serve water users in another signatory state. This was done in the recent Upper Colorado River Basin Compact. a. It may (and generally does) create a compact administrative commis- sion ~de up of representatives of the signatory states and of the Federal Govern- ment, if the latter so elects to designate such a representative, to a~~i~ister the compact. Such a commission thereby becomes an official body created by the signatoIY states and sanctioned by the Congress. In that capacity, it may effectively aid in the continuing process of integrating Federal and state interests in, and authority over, Hater in the areas affected by the compact. Such a commission, in collaboration \Iith the Government, may develop plans and programs and, particularly if tile conpact so directs as one of its purposes, act as a body to expedite project construction. -The Upper Colorado River Basin Compact specifies that one of its major purposes is to "secure the expeditious agricultural and industrial development of the Upper Basin lH,*". J. G. Will, ~ecretary and General Counsel of the Upper Colorado River CommisSion, said in a recent address: "* * * ThevCommission has adopted a progra-n designed to carry out and achieve that purpose. In carrying out that purpose the Upper Colorado River Co~mission fulfills the desire of the people of the Upper Colorado River Basin for