A. The State of Oklahoma has long recognized the importance of the conservation and preservation of its public waters and the necessity to maintain adequate supplies for the present and future water requirements of the state and to protect the public welfare of its citizens, and has entered into interstate compacts for that purpose.
B. No permit issued by the Oklahoma Water Resources Board to use water outside the boundaries of the State of Oklahoma shall:
1. Impair the ability of the State of Oklahoma to meet its obligations under any interstate stream compact; or
2. Impair or affect the powers, rights, or obligations of the United States, or those claiming under its authority or law, in, over and to water apportioned by interstate compacts.
C. Water apportioned to the State of Oklahoma by an interstate compact is subject to the right and power of the State of Oklahoma to control, among other matters, the method of diversion of the water and the place of use.
D. No permit for the use of water out of state shall authorize use of water apportioned to the State of Oklahoma under an interstate compact unless specifically authorized by an act of the Oklahoma Legislature and thereafter as approved by it.
Added by Laws 2009, c. 403, § 1, emerg. eff. June 1, 2009.