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GENERAL ACCOMPLI STENTS OF WATER RESOURCE COMPACTS 



Accomplishments of the compact instrument in managing water (and 

 related land) resources generally fall into two broad categories. 



The first is regulation of use and/or modification of water 

 resources covered by the compact. This too takes two forms: 

 (1) the enunciating or developing, by means of the compact, of 

 a binding agreement among the signatories on basic policies which 

 are to govern the use of the resources and (2) the implementation 

 by a joint agency, which the compact establishes, of such basic 

 policies through a variety of means, including action to induce 

 or compel others to comply with these policies and direct opera- 

 tion of facilities and administration of resources by the compact 

 agency itself. 



The second category of accomplishments is the performance by the 

 compact agency of services supporting resource use or regulatory 

 programs. 



Each of these accomplishments is illustrated and elaborated below. 



DEVELOPMENT OF BINDING POLICIES 



Use of the compact can accomplish this in one or both of two ways. 

 Under the first method, the compact itself exoresses a negotiated 

 agreement among the signatories on basic policies which, by virtue 

 of that enunciation, become binding upon all of them. The tyoical 



