United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2007-04-03 monographic deposited born digital 48 p. GA 1.13:GAO-07-519 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-519 P0b002ee18038f94e f:d07519 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-519 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-519 GAO-07-519 Accountability Advisory committees Agency missions Comparative analysis Conservation Cooperative agreements Independent regulatory commissions Land use Regional planning Regulation State-administered programs Surveys Other Written Product A67684 Interstate compacts are legal agreements between states that are designed to resolve concerns that transcend state lines, such as allocating interstate waters. While some compacts assign their administration to existing state agencies, compacts requiring greater coordination among states may establish an interstate agency, typically called a commission, to administer their provisions. Congress must give its consent to compacts that affect the balance of power between the states and the federal government. An example of a congressionally approved environment and natural resource compact is the Tahoe Regional Planning Compact, which created the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) to administer its provisions. For such compacts, GAO determined (1) the organizational structures, powers and authorities, and dispute resolution and public accountability mechanisms; (2) the extent to which concerns have been raised about the structure and governance of compacts that have commissions; and (3) how the structure and governance of TRPA compares to those of other similar compact commissions. GAO reviewed 59 congressionally approved compacts and surveyed those 45 that had commissions. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-519/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-519.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-519/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-519.pdf GAO-07-519 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-519 Other Written Product GAO-07-519; Interstate Compacts: An Overview of the Structure and Governance of Environment and Natural Resource Compacts; Accountability Advisory committees Agency missions Comparative analysis Conservation Cooperative agreements Independent regulatory commissions Land use Regional planning Regulation State-administered programs Surveys Volume 75 Page 688 75 Stat. 688 Volume 83 Page 360 83 Stat. 360 Volume 84 Page 1509 84 Stat. 1509 Volume 94 Page 3233 94 Stat. 3233 Volume 100 Page 4274 100 Stat. 4274