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                                  TITLE  42
                       IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE -- WATER
                            RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION
                                  CHAPTER 17
                       DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES --
                             WATER RESOURCE BOARD
    42-1705.  COOPERATION WITH UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. The director
of the department of water resources is hereby authorized to cooperate with
the United States geological survey in the investigation of the water
resources and gauging the flow of the streams of the state of Idaho so long as
the federal government is engaged in making such measurements and surveys. To
that end he is hereby authorized to make the necessary contract or contracts
with the director of the United States geological survey whereby a part of the
expenses incurred in the making of such surveys, gaugings and measurements may
be paid by the state of Idaho, to an amount not to exceed the appropriation
hereinafter made. Said contract or contracts shall provide among other things,
that the United States geological survey shall furnish to the department of
water resources complete and detailed reports of the results obtained by said
survey, gaugings and measurements and copies of such original records, plats,
notes and other data as shall be required by the department. Such reports,
plats, notes, records and data shall be and become a part of the permanent
records of the office of the department. All claims for expenses incurred or
made hereunder shall be filed, examined, and when allowed, paid out of the
state treasury in the same manner that other claims against the state are
made, filed, examined and paid.