California Water Code Section 123

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Except as provided in Section 179, the department succeeds to
and is vested with all of the powers, duties, purposes,
responsibilities, and jurisdiction in matters pertaining to water or
dams vested in the Department and Director of Public Works, the
Division of Water Resources of the Department of Public Works, the
State Engineer, the Water Project Authority of the State of
California, or any officer of employee thereof.  The department also
succeeds to and is vested with all of the powers, duties, purposes,
responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the Department of Finance under
Part 2 (commencing at Section 10500) of Division 6.  The department
succeeds to and is vested with all of the powers, duties, purposes,
responsibilities, and jurisdiction vested in the State Water
Resources Board, except as provided in Article 2 (commencing at
Section 150) of Chapter 2 of this division.
   Any commission or other body heretofore or hereafter created by
the Legislature to formulate a compact with a similar commission or
body from another state relative to the distribution and use of the
waters of any interstate streams or bodies of water, including but
not limited to the California Klamath River Commission and the
California-Nevada Interstate Compact Commission, shall, in
formulating a provision in any such compact for the administration of
the terms of the compact, provide that the Department of Water
Resources shall be the representative of the State of California for
the purpose of such administration.

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