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82 OK Stat § 82-1085.10 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-1085.10. Procedures and appeals.

|In the exercise of all powers and performance of all duties provided in this act, the Oklahoma Water Resources Board shall comply with the procedures provided in the Administrative Procedures Act. Appeals shall be taken as provided in said act. The Oklahoma Water Resources Board may designate a hearing examiner or examiners who shall have the power and authority to conduct such hearings in the name of the Oklahoma Water Resources Board at any time and place subject to the provisions of this section and any applicable rules, regulations or orders of the Oklahoma Water Resources Board. |Added by Laws 1972, c. 253, § 10.
82 OK Stat § 82-1085.11 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-1085.11. Compilation, indexing and publishing of data.

|The Oklahoma Water Resources Board shall compile, index and publish all available data concerning the water resources of this state in forms that will be accessible for use by any citizen of this state. Such information shall include rainfall reports and other precipitation data; records of public and private water storage facilities; data on quantity and rate of stream flow; locations of natural and artificial springs; data on water insoak and runoff; extent and depth of underground water reservoirs; reports from well-drilling logs; reports on quality of water found in various parts of Oklahoma; and an up-to-date compilation of all Oklahoma Statutes, rules and regulations pertaining to the conservation, storage, use and distribution of water resources. |Laws 1972, c. 253, § 11.
82 OK Stat § 82-1085.12 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-1085.12. Executive Director - Qualifications - Powers and duties.

|A. The Oklahoma Water Resources Board shall appoint an Executive Director, who shall have had at least six (6) years practical and administrative experience in water resource management and fix his or her duties and compensation. The Board is specifically authorized to delegate to such Executive Director such of its powers and duties as it may deem proper, including powers and duties involving the exercise of official discretion. The authority hereby granted to the Board to delegate powers and duties to the Executive Director shall extend to any powers and duties given or transferred to the Board under this title, or under any other law conferring powers or imposing duties upon the Board, and shall also extend to any powers conferred or duties imposed upon the Board by any future law, unless any law expressly negates the authority to make such delegation. Any other part of this title, or any other law granting authority to the Board to delegate any powers or duties, shall not be deemed to be a limitation upon the authority conferred by this section. The Executive Director shall exercise any such delegated powers and perform such delegated duties, in accordance with any rules, regulations or orders made by the Board which are applicable thereto. Provided, however, the Board shall not delegate to such director any power of determining policy, the execution of any contract or the final adjudication of any claims, applications or controversies, all of which powers and duties shall be exercised solely by the Board. |B. In addition to the powers and duties specified in subsection A of this section, the Executive Director shall have the power and duty to issue temporary permits and regular permits excluding all permits from sensitive sole source aquifers that meet all the requirements of Titles 27A and 82 of the Oklahoma Statutes and other considerations required by law and that have not been the subject of a protest from an interested party.Added by Laws 1972, c. 253, § 12. Amended by Laws 2021, c. 467, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2021.
82 OK Stat § 82-1085.12a (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-1085.12a. Executive Director of the Oklahoma Water Resources Board; absence or vacancy.

|For intrastate or interstate compacts or commissions on which the Executive Director of the Oklahoma Water Resources Board is a member or otherwise is required to perform specified services, the Executive Director, in the event of the Executive Director's temporary absence, may delegate the exercise of such powers and duties to a designee during the Executive Director's absence. In the event of a vacancy in the position of Executive Director, the Board may designate an interim or acting Commissioner and designee who is authorized to exercise such powers and duties until a permanent Executive Director is employed. |Added by Laws 1994, c. 32, § 2, emerg. eff. April 11, 1994.
82 OK Stat § 82-1085.13 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-1085.13. Special counsel.

|If the Attorney General shall seek redress on behalf of the state as provided for in the Administrative Procedures Act, the Oklahoma Water Resources Board is empowered to appoint a special counsel for such proceedings. |Added by Laws 1972, c. 253, § 13.
82 OK Stat § 82-1085.14 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-1085.14. Continuing study of water laws - Recommendations and proposals.

|In addition to its other powers, the Oklahoma Water Resources Board is authorized and directed, within the limits of funds available to it, to engage in a continuing study of the water laws of this state, and of changes therein required in order to carry out to the greatest practicable extent the policies, goals, objectives and recommendations contained in the "Oklahoma Comprehensive Water Plan" and to make recommendations and prepare proposed legislation for such purposes. Such recommendations and proposed legislation shall, as they are completed, be filed with the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. |Laws 1972, c. 253, § 14; Laws 1981, c. 113, § 1; Laws 1981, c. 272, § 40, eff. July 1, 1981.
82 OK Stat § 82-1085.15 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-1085.15. Cooperation.

|All state institutions, agencies, departments, boards and officers are hereby authorized and directed to cooperate with the Oklahoma Water Resources Board in all matters relating to its duties. |Added by Laws 1972, c. 253, § 15.
82 OK Stat § 82-1085.16 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-1085.16. Savings clause.

|If any water distribution systems or districts or county water improvement districts have ever been formed, any easements or property are transferred to the Oklahoma Water Resources Board for release of easements. All districts heretofore formed pursuant to the provisions of Sections 281 through 447, inclusive, in Title 82 of the Oklahoma Statutes, shall have the right to continue to operate pursuant to said statutes. The property and easements of those districts heretofore formed pursuant to said laws, but which are inactive, are hereby transferred to the board of county commissioners of the county wherein such easements or property are located; and, the board of county commissioners of said county shall have the right to maintain or release said easements or dispose of said property as provided by law. |Added by Laws 1972, c. 253, § 16.
82 OK Stat § 82-1085.17 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-1085.17. State policy - Purpose.

|It is hereby declared to be the policy of the State of Oklahoma to encourage and promote the optimum development and utilization of all feasible reservoir sites or areas within this state which may be suitable and usable for the conservation storage of the waters of this state by the construction or enlargement of dams, reservoirs or other structures. It is the purpose of this act to provide or assist in providing for the acquisition, development and utilization of storage and control facilities of the waters of this state for the use and benefit of the public and for the conservation and distribution of water for useful purposes in or from reservoirs or other storage facilities constructed, or hereafter constructed, modified or enlarged, within the State of Oklahoma by the United States of America or the State of Oklahoma or any agency, department, subdivision or instrumentality thereof, for the following and specific reasons and benefits for the general welfare and the future economic growth of the state: |1. Multiple-purpose dam and reservoir sites are very limited in number and not replaceable.2. Water management in Oklahoma requires the storage of water during periods of surplus supply for use during periods of short supply.3. Most reservoir sites in Oklahoma will have a useful life of seventy-five to several hundred years. Therefore, it is imperative that the reservoir sites be developed to the full potential of the site and the net water yield of the drainage area after all present and future needs and beneficial uses of water are satisfied above said site.4. The conservation of soil and water in Oklahoma requires the continuation of watershed protection and flood prevention programs on an accelerated priority basis with consideration given to future water needs of the area.Added by Laws 1972, c. 253, § 17.
82 OK Stat § 82-1085.18 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-1085.18. Commission created - Status - Membership - Expenses.

|There is hereby created a body corporate and politic to be known as the Water Conservation Storage Commission which may sue and be sued and plead and be impleaded. The Commission, where necessary to promote the optimum development and utilization of reservoir sites, shall have the power to acquire by purchase, gift, devise or eminent domain land and interests in land except mineral interests. The Commission is hereby constituted an instrumentality of the State of Oklahoma, and exercise by the Commission of the powers conferred by this act shall be deemed and shall be held to be an essential governmental function of the State of Oklahoma. The Commission shall be composed of the members of the Oklahoma Water Resources Board and the officers of said Oklahoma Water Resources Board shall be the officers of the Commission. The duties assigned to each member of the Commission by the provisions of this act shall be considered additional duties to those required by virtue of their membership on the Oklahoma Water Resources Board, and they shall not receive any additional compensation for the performance of the duties required by this act, except that they shall be entitled to their actual expenses incurred, and reimbursement for such expenses shall be paid out of the funds available for the operation of their department, on the same basis as now provided by law. |Added by Laws 1972, c. 253, § 18.
82 OK Stat § 82-1085.19 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-1085.19. Meetings - Quorum - Record of proceedings.

|The Commission shall meet on the call of the Commission Chairman upon five (5) days' written notice to each member from the secretary, except that a meeting may be held without notice whenever those not attending waive in writing or by telegram addressed to the secretary of the Commission their right to notice of such meeting. All meetings of the Commission shall be open to the communications media and public. Four (4) members of the Commission shall constitute a quorum and the vote of four (4) members shall be necessary for any action taken by the Commission. No vacancy in the membership of the Commission shall impair the rights of a quorum to exercise and perform all of the rights and duties of the Commission. The secretary of the Commission shall cause to be recorded an accurate written record of the actions and proceedings of the Commission and shall keep such records open for public inspection for as long as the Commission or any obligations thereof exist. |Added by Laws 1972, c. 253, § 19.
82 OK Stat § 82-1085.20 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-1085.20. Review of proposed projects or plans - Storage of surplus water.

|It shall be the duty of the Commission to review any proposed project or plan whereby waters of this state are to be collected, stored or retained for any purpose by any dam, reservoir or other structure constructed or caused to be constructed by the United States of America or the State of Oklahoma or any agency, department, subdivision or instrumentality thereof. Whenever it is determined by the Commission after such examination, review and recommendation that there are surplus waters in excess of the present and future needs of water users of the contributing watershed available at the proposed dam and reservoir site for the full and optimum development of any dam, reservoir or other storage site or location requiring inclusion in such plan or project provisions for development of water supplies for domestic, municipal, agricultural, industrial and other purposes, then the Commission shall notify the responsible agency or department of the federal government and the agencies of the State of Oklahoma of its conclusions and request that the design and specifications of such project be constructed to include storage of such water for such uses. |Added by Laws 1972, c. 253, § 20.
82 OK Stat § 82-1085.21 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-1085.21. Agreements with federal agencies - Cost of reimbursement.

|Whenever any project or plan for the construction or enlargement of any dam, reservoir or other structure includes within its design and specifications provisions for the development of water supplies for domestic, municipal, agricultural, industrial and other purposes the Commission is hereby directed to negotiate with the municipalities or other local interests of this state and its agencies and the federal government or its responsible agency, department or instrumentality for the purpose of determining the cost of reimbursing the federal government for the allocated cost of including such municipal, agricultural and industrial water storage within such construction. Any available storage for such purposes which cannot reasonably be used within the present or estimated future firm demands of local users may be contracted for by the Commission in order to assure the federal government that such added cost will be provided as authorized by federal law, and that necessary funds for any charges shall be paid by the Commission to the federal government pursuant to such contract and applicable federal law after examination and determination by the Oklahoma Water Resources Board that such charges are in harmony with existing federal law and policy at the time that the projects are built and the contracts between the Commission and the federal government are executed. In cases where all necessary costs to provide maximum conservation storage in a site cannot be contracted for between the federal government and the Commission because of limitations on the participation by the federal government, the Commission shall have the authority to provide funds covering those costs. |Added by Laws 1972, c. 253, § 21.
82 OK Stat § 82-1085.22 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-1085.22. Sale, transfer or lease of storage facilities.

|For the purpose of providing water for municipal, agricultural, industrial and other uses the Commission is required to sell, transfer or lease, in whole or in part, any acquired storage facilities including land or interests therein to any municipality, industry or other local interests, upon the request of the contracting party at the conclusion of the pay-out of the storage, except that any such party requesting title shall be responsible for the pro rata part of the maintenance and operation costs of such storage. In no event shall the Commission require any payment for such transfer in excess of the costs to the Commission of the construction and operation of the storage facility and the interest on obligations of the Commission. The Commission shall not permit the sale or resale of any water for use outside the State of Oklahoma. Where lands or interest therein are acquired by the Commission and not utilized for the purposes for which it was acquired, or which have been utilized but such utilization has ceased, then, after ten (10) years from the date of acquisition, or ten (10) years from the date utilization ceased, as the case may be, such land must be sold at public auction to the highest bidder; and mandamus by any interested party will be to require such sale. |Added by Laws 1972, c. 253, § 22.
82 OK Stat § 82-1085.23 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-1085.23. Water Conservation Storage Fund - Investment certificates.

|There is hereby created in the State Treasury a Water Conservation Storage Fund, which fund shall be used by the Commission for those purposes authorized by this act. To provide necessary funds the Commission is hereby authorized to issue investment certificates from time to time, as may be required, to provide an adequate amount of cash in such fund which may be necessary to meet the anticipated needs of the Commission. The Commission is authorized to provide for the payment of such investment certificates and the rights of the holders thereof, as hereinafter provided. Said investment certificates may be issued in one or more series; may be sold in such manner and at par; may bear such date or dates; may mature at such time or times, not to exceed fifty (50) years from their date; may be in such denomination or denominations; may be in such form either coupon or registered; may carry such registration or conversion privileges; may be executed in such manner; may be payable in such medium of payments, at such place or places; may be subject to such term of redemption, with or without premium; and may bear such rate or rates of interest as may be provided by resolution or resolutions to be adopted by the Commission. Such investment certificates shall have all of the qualities and incidents of negotiable paper, and shall not be subject to taxation by the State of Oklahoma, or by any county, municipality or political subdivision therein. All investment certificates maturing after ten (10) years from their dates shall be subject to call and redemption, in inverse order of maturity and investment certificate numbers, at par and accrued interest, the detailed provisions for such call and redemption to be fixed by the Commission in the resolution or resolutions authorizing the issuance of said investment certificates. |The investment certificates issued hereunder shall not be an indebtedness of the State of Oklahoma or of the Commission herein, but shall be special obligations payable solely from the revenues to be derived from the sale of storage, and the Commission is authorized and directed to pledge all or any part of such revenues to the payment of principal and interest on the investment certificates and to create a reserve for such purposes.Added by Laws 1972, c. 253, § 23.
82 OK Stat § 82-1085.24 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-1085.24. Purchase of certificates by State Treasurer.

|A. The State Treasurer of the State of Oklahoma is hereby authorized and required to purchase from the Water Conservation Storage Commission at private sale not to exceed at any one time One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,500,000.00) in said investment certificates, or interim investment certificates, as an investment of the public monies in his possession. It shall be the responsibility of the State Treasurer to invest only that portion of such public monies as it deems to be more than sufficient to meet current expenditures payable from public monies. The State Treasurer is authorized and required to buy, and the Commission is authorized and required to sell to the State Treasurer at private sale, as provided in this section, so many of the investment certificates authorized by this act as may be safely purchased for investment of public monies by the State Treasurer without handicapping the State of Oklahoma in promptly meeting its obligations. In event of such sale or sales, the Commission shall determine and fix the rate of interest and investment certificates so sold shall bear such rate of interest. |B. In the event any or all of the investment certificates are sold to the State Treasurer under the provisions of subsection A of this section and thereafter the uninvested cash on hand and in solvent banks should fall short of demand orders on the State Treasury, it shall be the duty of the State Treasurer to sell such part or all of the investment certificates as are necessary to be converted into cash to meet such demands. The State Treasurer may sell such part or all of the said investment certificates as the State Treasurer is so authorized to sell, at private sale, to the Teachers' Retirement Fund or any other state fund, department or agency which has available monies to purchase the same, and all such state funds, departments and agencies are hereby authorized and empowered to so purchase such investment certificates.Added by Laws 1972, c. 253, § 24. Amended by Laws 1989, c. 343, § 40, operative July 1, 1989; Laws 2013, c. 254, § 36.
82 OK Stat § 82-1085.25 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-1085.25. Examination of proceedings by Attorney General - Incontestability.

|Within ten (10) days after the sale or sales of said investment certificates, the Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma shall examine all of the proceedings of the Commission and all resolutions passed and actions taken by it in connection with the authorization, issuance and sale of such investment certificates and shall, if he finds such investment certificate proceedings and sale to be constitutional and lawful, execute his certificate and file the same of record in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of Oklahoma, which said certificate shall read substantially as follows: |I have examined all proceedings had in connection with the issuance of the Water Conservation Storage Investment Certificates in the aggregate principal amount of $___________, dated ________, authorized and sold pursuant to ____________, and find said proceedings and sale to be constitutional, lawful and regular in all particulars and that said investment certificates will be valid obligations of the Water Conservation Storage Commission. Unless suit thereon shall be brought in the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma within thirty (30) days from the date of this certificate, said investment certificates shall be incontestable for all purposes._____________________ _________________________________Date Attorney General of the Stateof OklahomaUpon the filing of such certificate, investment certificates issued pursuant to proceedings so examined by the Attorney General shall be incontestable for all purposes upon the expiration of thirty (30) days from the date of such certificate, unless suit be brought in the Supreme Court of Oklahoma prior to the expiration of said period as provided herein. A facsimile of such Attorney General's certificate shall appear on each investment certificate so issued. The Supreme Court of Oklahoma is hereby vested with exclusive jurisdiction over any litigation involving the validity of any investment certificates issued under this act.Added by Laws 1972, c. 253, § 25.
82 OK Stat § 82-1085.26 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 82. Waters and Water Rights|§82-1085.26. Execution of certificates and contracts - Audits.

|A. The Chairman and secretary, acting in behalf of the Commission, shall execute all investment certificates issued by the Commission and all contracts awarded by the Commission after approval of the form thereof by the Commission and the Attorney General. |B. All invoices, bills and claims of whatever nature shall be subject to audit under provisions of the preaudit law and other laws relating to the disbursement of public funds.Added by Laws 1972, c. 253, § 26.