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[CITE: 42USC1962b-2]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                  CHAPTER 19B--WATER RESOURCES PLANNING
 
                 SUBCHAPTER II--RIVER BASIN COMMISSIONS
 
Sec. 1962b-2. Organization of commissions


(a) Commencement of functions; transfer of property, assets, and records 
        upon termination of commission; availability of studies, data, 
        and other materials to participants

    Each river basin commission shall organize for the performance of 
its functions within ninety days after the President shall have declared 
the establishment of such commission, subject to the availability of 
funds for carrying on its work. A commission shall terminate upon 
decision of the Council or agreement of a majority of the States 
composing the commission. Upon such termination, all property, assets, 
and records of the commission shall thereafter be turned over to such 
agencies of the United States and the participating States as shall be 
appropriate in the circumstances: Provided, That studies, data, and 
other materials useful in water and related land resources planning to 
any of the participants shall be kept freely available to all such 
participants.

(b) Vice chairman; State election; State representation

    State members of each commission shall elect a vice chairman, who 
shall serve also as chairman and coordinating officer of the State 
members of the commission and who shall represent the State governments 
in Federal-State relations on the commission.

(c) Vacancies; alternates for chairman and vice chairman

    Vacancies in a commission shall not affect its powers but shall be 
filled in the same manner in which the original appointments were made: 
Provided, That the chairman and vice chairman may designate alternates 
to act for them during temporary absences.

(d) Consensus of members on issues; opportunities for individual views; 
        record of position of chairman and vice chairman; final 
        authority on procedural questions

    In the work of the commission every reasonable endeavor shall be 
made to arrive at a consensus of all members on all issues; but failing 
this, full opportunity shall be afforded each member for the 
presentation and report of individual views: Provided, That at any time 
the commission fails to act by reason of absence of consensus, the 
position of the chairman, acting in behalf of the Federal members, and 
the vice chairman, acting upon instructions of the State members, shall 
be set forth in the record: Provided further, That the chairman, in 
consultation with the vice chairman, shall have the final authority, in 
the absence of an applicable by-law adopted by the commission or in the 
absence of a consensus, to fix the times and places for meetings, to set 
deadlines for the submission of annual and other reports, to establish 
subcommittees, and to decide such other procedural questions as may be 
necessary for the commission to perform its functions.

(Pub. L. 89-80, title II, Sec. 203, July 22, 1965, 79 Stat. 248.)
