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 Ill STAT. 2238 PUBLIC LAW 105-105—NOV. 20, 1997 "(c) Between the effective date of this Compact and the approval of the allocation formula under this Article, the signatories to this Compact agree that any person who is withdrawing, diverting, or consuming water resources of the ACT Basin as of the effective date of this Compact, may continue to withdraw, divert or consume such water resources in accordance with the laws of the state where such person resides or does business and in accordance with applicable federal laws. The parties to this Compact farther agree that any such person may increase the amount of water resources withdrawn, diverted or consumed to satisfy reasonable increases in the demand of such person for water between the effective date of this Compact and the date on which an allocation formula is approved by the ACT Basin Commission as permitted by applicable law. Each of the state parties to this Compact further agree to provide written notice to each of the other parties to this Compact in the event any person increases the withdrawal, diversion or consumption of such water resources by more than 10 million gallons per day on an average annual daily basis, or in the event any person, who was not withdrawing, diverting or consuming any water resources from the ACT Basin as of the effective date of this Compact, seeks to withdraw, divert or consume more than one million gallons per day on an average annual daily basis from such resources. This Article shall not be construed as granting any permanent, vested or perpetual rights to the amounts of water used between January 3, 1992 and the date on which the Commission adopts an allocation formula. "(d) As the owner, operator, licensor, permitting authority or regulator of a water resource facility under its jurisdiction, each state shall be responsible for using its best efforts to achieve compliance with the allocation formula adopted pursuant to this Article. Each such state agrees to take such actions as may be necessary to achieve compliance with the allocation formula. "(e) This Compact shall not commit any state to agree to any data generated by any study or commit any state to any allocation formula not acceptable to such state. " ARTICLE VIII "CONDITIONS RESULTING IN TERMINATION OF THE COMPACT "(a) This Compact shall be terminated and thereby be void and of no further force and effect if any of the following events occur: "(1) The legislatures of the states of Alabama and Georgia each agree by general laws enacted by each state within any three consecutive years that this Compact should be terminated. "(2) The United States Congress enacts a law expressly repealing this Compact. "(3) The States of Alabama and Georgia fail to agree on an equitable apportionment of the surface waters of the ACT as provided in Article Vll(a) of this Compact by December 31, 1998, unless the voting members of the ACT Basin Commission unanimously agree to extend this deadline. "(4) The Federal Commissioner submits to the Commission a letter of nonconcurrence in the initial allocation formula in accordance with Article Vll(a) of the Compact, unless the voting members

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