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., "l.;" ..... -, '.' ' J:..~; ... Interstate The waters of Goose Lake extend northward into Oregon; those of Lake Tahoe, eastward, into Nevada. Commissions have been established to ne- gotiate interstate eompacts relative to the distribu- tion and use of the waters of .each lake. The Direc- tor of \ Vater Resources is a member of each conlmlSSlOll, The more recent of these t\\'o commissions is the California Goose LIke Compact Commission. Established in 1961, the five-member commission is working with the Oregon State \Vater Re- sources Board to prepare a compact bet\\'een Cali- fornia and Oregon regarding Goose Lake water. The two negotiating groups have reached agree- ment on most of the compact terms and have ;lsked an opinion from the respecrive Attorneys Gcneral to assist in the resolution of the remainder of terms, all legal in nature. Local interests will be asked to comment on the drafted compact at the public meetings to be held within the Goose Lake area. Following consideration of these comments, the completed compact \\'ill be submitted for approval by the legislatures of both states. The elder of the two compact commissions is the seven-member California-Nevada Interstate Com- pact Commission, established in 1955. The com- mission deals not only with the waters of Lake Tahoe, but also, through three special negotiating committees, with the waters in Truekee, Carson, and \Valker River Basins as well. In the Lake Tahoe Basin, an area of expanding population and rapidly increasing water problems, agreement in principle has been reached on most of the compact terms. The Truekee River Committee is working on the final details of an allocation of the waters in the T ruckee Basin. The Carson River Commit- tee has developed compact terms for the allocation of water along the most diffieult portion of the Carson River stream system and has agreed to a method of allocating waters along the remainder Compact Commissions of the system. Although the development of allo- cations suitable to both states has proved trouble- some to the \Valker River Committee, the com- mittee has obtained sufficient information on the intricate, federally decreed operation of the stream system to enable it to develop a form of allocation that can be pursued. The federal government is the largest water distributor in the Truckee, Car- son, and \Valker River Basins and is working with the California and Nevada commissions to\\'ard the solution of mutual problems. As opposed to rhe two negotiating compact commissions, the Klamath River Compact Com- mission is all agency established to administer an interstate compact-the 1957 Klamath River Basin Compact for the equitable distribution and use of Klamath River waters. The commission is com- prised of the Direcror of \Vater Resources, the state engincer of Oregon, and a federal representa- tive. The duties of executive director of the com- mission have been assumed, at commission request, by an employee of the Department of \Vater Re- sources. The commission monitors the quality of water in the Oregon portion of the Klamath River Basin. A land use survey of the Klamath Indian Reserva- tion, initiated by the commission in June 1960, has been completed and a survey of land use in the portion of the basin outside the reservation has been started. Knowledge of the acreage irrigated in 1957 as well as of that presently irrigated will enable the commission to determine at any time the additional volume of irrigation water used since the effective date of the compact. Such water is subject to regulation b~. the compact. The com- mission has reported to the Legislature on the ini- tial phase of a study of methods to control algae in the basin and is co-operating with the \Vater Re- sources Research Institute at Oregon State Univer- sity in initiating a scientific study of the waters of the basin. 25