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PUBLIC LAW 578-AUG. 10, 1954

Public Law 578 August 10, 1954 [S. 3699]

Sabine River Compact, Consent of Congress. 65 Stat. 736.

[68 STAT.

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AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to a compact entered into by the States of Louisiana and Texas and relating to the w a t e r s of the Sabine River.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of the Congress is hereby given to the interstate compact rehiting to the waters of the Sabine River and its tributaries authorized by the Act of November 1, 1951 (Public Law Numbered 252, Eighty-second Congress, first session), which was signed by the representatives for the States of Louisiana and Texas and approved by the representative of the United States, at Logansport, Louisiana, on January 26, 1953, and thereafter ratified and approved by the Legislatures of the States of Louisiana and Texas, which compact reads as follows: S A B I N E R IV E R COMPACT

65 Stat. 736.

The State of Texas and the State of Louisiana, parties signatory to this Compact (hereinafter referred to as "Texas" and "Louisiana", respectively, or individually as a "State", or collectively as the "States"), having resolved to conclude a compact with respect to the waters of the Sabine River, and having appointed representatives as follows: For Texas: H E N R Y L. WOOD W O R T H, Interstate Compact Commissioner for Texas; and JOHN W. SIMMONS, President of the Sabine River Authority of Texas; For Louisiana: R O Y T. S E S S U M S, Director of the Department of Public Works of the State of Louisiana; and consent to negotiate and enter into the said Compact having been granted by Act of Congress of the United States approved November 1, 1951 (Public Law No. 252; 82nd Congress, First Session), and pursuant thereto the President having designated Louis W. Prentiss as the representative of the United States, the said representatives for Texas and Louisiana, after negotiations participated in by the representative of the United States, have for such Compact agreed upon Articles as hereinafter set forth. The major purposes of this Compact are to provide for an equitable apportionment oetween the States of Louisiana and Texas of the waters of the Sabine River and its tributaries, thereby removing the causes of present and future controversy between the States oVer the conservation and utilization of said waters; to encourage the development, conservation and utilization of the water resources of the Sabine River and its tributaries; and to establish a basis for cooperative planning and action by the States for the construction, operation and maintenance of projects for water conservation and utilization purposes on that reach of the Sabine River touching both States, and for apportionment of the benefits therefrom. I t is recognized that pollution abatement and salt water intrusion are problems which are of concern to the States of Louisiana and Texas, but inasmuch as this Compact is limited to the equitable apportionment of the waters of the Sabine River and its tributaries between the States of Louisiana and Texas, this Compact does not undertake the solution of those problems.

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