The State - News from Aug. 13, 1986

A U.S. Senate judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution approved a bill ratifying the 15-year-old California-Nevada water rights compact--but decided to let the full Judiciary Committee thrash out conflicting amendments. But Congress has less than a month before adjournment after returning from a summer recess that starts this weekend, and chances of having time to settle conflicts over the compact legislation appeared doubtful. The compact, an agreement between the two states apportioning water from Lake Tahoe and the Truckee, Carson and Walker rivers approved by California and Nevada in 1970 and 1971, requires consent of Congress before it can take effect.