61-02-24. Cooperation and coordination with entities

61-02-24. Cooperation and coordination with entities 1. The commission may investigate, plan, cooperate, and make all contracts or compacts necessary or requisite: a. With the United States and any department, agency, or officer thereof. b. With the states of Minnesota, South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming, or any political subdivision thereof, and with any other state, and with any department or officer or political subdivision of any state. c. With Canada or any of its provinces, and with any agency, department, or officer of Canada or any of its provinces. d. With federally recognized Indian tribes, or any agency, department, or officer thereof. 2. The powers granted by this section shall extend to all waters, whether considered as intrastate, interstate, or international. The commission is specially authorized and empowered to cooperate with the United States or any of its agencies concerned with investigating, planning, conserving, utilizing, developing, and handling water in any form for purposes of water conservation, flood control, prevention of water pollution, or soil reclamation, or with any other resources of the state, and concerned with the administration of the public works program of the state or any part thereof. The commission is authorized to act and to contract fully with the United States, or with any department, agency, or officer thereof, with full power of purchase, sale, or lease to carry out, develop, or administer any federal project within this state or partly within the state, and also to accept and to use any funds provided by the United States or any agency thereof for any such purposes.