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PUBLIC LAW 85-860-AUG. 28, 1958

(4) recognize an important body of existing Federal law affecting the public lands, irrigation, reclamation, flood control, grazing, geological survey, national parks, mines, and minerals; and (5) to recognize the primary responsibilities of the States and local interests in developing water supplies for domestic, municipal, industrial, and other purposes and that the Federal Government should participate and cooperate with States and local interests in developing such water supplies in connection with the construction, maintenance, and operation of Federal navigation, flood control, irrigation, or multiple purpose projects. SEC. 3. (a) I n order to carry^ out the purposes of this Act, there is hereby established a commission to be known as the United States Study Commission on the Savannah, Altamaha, Saint Marys, Apalachicola-Chattahoochee, and Perdido-Escambia River Basins and intervening areas (hereinafter referred to as the "Commission"). (b) The Commission shall be composed of eleven members appointed by the President as follows: (1) One member, who shall serve as Chairman, and who shall be a resident from the area comprising the Savannah, Altamaha, Saint Marys, Apalachicola-Chattahoochee, and Perdido-Escambia River Basins (and intervening areas) embraced within the States referred to in the first section of this Act and who shall not, during the period of his service on the Commission, hold any other position as an officer or employee of the United States, except that a retired military officer or a retired Federal civilian officer or employee may be appointed under this Act without prejudice to his retired status, and he shall receive compensation as authorized herein in addition to his retired pay or annuity, but the sum of his retired pay or annuity and such compensation as may be payable hereunder shall not exceed $12,000 in any one calendar year; (2) Six members, of whom one shall be from the Department of the Army, one from the Department of Commerce, one from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, one from the Department of Agriculture, one from the Department of Interior, and one from the Federal Power Commission; and (3) Four members, upon the recommendation and nomination, subject to the provisions of subsection (c) of this section, of the respective governors of each of the following States: South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. (c) I n the event of the failure of the governor of any of the States referred to in subsection ^b) of this section to recommend and nominate a person or persons m accordance with the provisions of paragraph (3) of subsection (b) of this section satisfactory to the President within sixty days after a request by the President for such recommendation and nomination, the President shall then select and appoint a qualified resident from such State which failed to submit a satisfactory recommendation and nomination. (d) Any vacancy in the Commission shall not affect its powers but shall be filled in the same manner in which the original appointment was made. (e) Within thirty days after the appointment of the members of the Commission by the President, and funds have been made available by the Congress as provided for in this Act, the Commission shall organize for the performance of its functions. (f) The Commission shall elect a Vice Chairman from among its members. (g) Six members of the Commission, of whom at least three shall have been appointed pursuant to subsection (b)(3) or (c) of this section, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

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