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PUBLIC LAW 86-734-AUG. 23, 1958

Pollution Control District or any portion thereof than those required for the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation District. " B. Nothing contained in this Compact shall be deemed to give the Commission any regulatory power or jurisdiction over any aspect of pollution abatement or control within the District unless existing or future pollution of such waters does or is likelj to affect adversely the quality of water flowing among, between, mto or through the territory of more than one party state. "ARTICLE

XI

"Any two or more of the party states by legislative action may enter into supplementary agreements for further regulation and abatement of water pollution in other areas within the party states and for the establishment of common or joint services or facilities for such purpose and designate the Commission to act as their joint agency in regard thereto. Except in those cases where all member states join in such supplementary agreement and designation, the representatives in the Commission of any group of such designating states shall constitute a separate section of the Commission for the performance of the function or functions so designated and with such voting rights for these purposes as may be stipulated in such agreement; provided that, if any additional expense is involved, the member states so acting shall appropriate the necessary funds for this purpose. No supplementary agreement shall be valid to the extent that it conflicts with the purposes of this Compact and the creation of such a section as a joint agency shall not affect the privileges, powers, responsibilities or duties of the member states participating therein as embodied in the other articles of this Compact. "ARTICLE

XII

"This Compact shall enter into force and become effective and binding when it has been enacted by the legislature of Tennessee and by the legislatures of any one or more of the States of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina and Virginia and upon approval by the Congress of the United States and thereafter shall enter into force and become effective and binding as to any other of said states when enacted by the legislature thereof. "ARTICLE

XIII

"This Compact shall continue in force and remain binding upon each party state until renounced by act of the legislature of such state, m such form and manner as it may choose; provided that such renunciation shall not become effective until six months after the effective date of the action taken by the legislature. Notice of such renunciation shall be given to the other party states by the Secretary of State of the party state so renouncing upon passage of the act. "ARTICLE

XIV

"The provisions of this Compact or of agreements thereunder shall be severable and if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of this Compact, or such agreement, is declared to be contrary to the Constitution of any participating state or of the United States or the applicability thereof to any state, agency, person or circumstance is held invalid, the constitutionality of the remainder of this Compact or of any agreement thereunder and the applicability thereof to any state, agency, person or circumstance shall not be affected thereby.

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