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<br />. <br /> <br />or as water supplies originating within each state may relate. <br />Lacking guidelines covering water supplies available for develop- <br />ment and use under State laws in each state, some agreements among <br />the States, formal or informal, may be necessary. Current issues <br />before the States do not require resolution of other than the <br />collective states-Federal purposes separation of water supplies. <br /> <br />3. Federal agencies must conform to laws enacted by congress, <br />including such interpretations of federal laws as may be necessary <br />to determine proper discharge of authority, duties and responsibil- <br />ities that congress assigned to the respective Federal agencies. <br />Sections l(a) and l(c) of the Flood Control Act of 1944 prescribed <br />procedures whereby the policy expressed in the enacting clause are <br />to be accomplished. Apparently, the current issues before the <br />States of the Missouri River Basin arise because the Department of <br />the Interior and the Department of the Army seek advice from <br />Federal agency offices having assignments in the Missouri River <br />Basin and the States of the Missouri River Basin as an aid in <br />interpreting the intent of Congress relating to the authority of <br />these Federal agencies to resolve the current issues within the <br />provisions of existing Federal law. Since the current issues <br />before the States of the Missouri River Basin involve water <br />utilization and control in the Basin, the States should express <br />their interests and rights associated with these current issues <br />in full and to the same extent as though these current issues <br />were presented to them formally in accordance with the procedures <br />set forth in Sections l(a) and l(c) of the Flood Control Act of <br />1944. <br /> <br />CONCLUSION <br /> <br />TO the extent that the legal premises and application to the <br />development and use of the waters of the Missouri River Basin are <br />confirmed, including such amplification as may be desirable, it <br />is believed that satisfactory answers can be provided to the <br />questions stated by Mr. Jack O. Horton, Assistant Secretary, <br />Department of the Interior and Mr. Charles R. Ford, Chief, Office <br />of Civil Functions, Department of the Army in their joint letter <br />of December 13, 1973, addressed to Mr. John W. Neuberger, Chairman, <br />Missouri River Basin Commission. <br /> <br />5. <br />