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PUBLIC LAW 90-181-DEC. 8, 1967

without the consent of the commonwealth, state or political subdivision which owns the same. " (d) To maintain, administer and improve any properties acquired, to charge fees for use of, and receive income from, such properties and to expend such income in carrying out the purposes and provisions of this compact, and to lease any of its property or interests therein in accordance with the following provisions and requirements: The board of commissioners of the County of Ohio, West Virginia, the county court of Marshall County, West Virginia, the board of commissioners of Greene County, Pennsylvania, and the board of commissioners of Washington County, Pennsylvania, shall each have the option of leasing from the commission for such period as the lessee may specify all or any part of the works of improvement and the public fish and wildlife and recreational development and facilities in connection with works of improvement located within their respective counties upon the following terms and conditions: (a) That in each such lease the lessee in consideration thereof pay to the lessor the sum of one dollar and agree to fully maintain at its (the lessee's) expense all works of improvement and all such development and facilities in connection therewith located within the county of the lessee in accordance with the requirements of the AVatershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act of the eighty-third Congress of the United States, second session, (Public Law 566)., approved August 4, 1954, as from ^^ Stat. eee. 16 time to time amended, and all agreements and work plans made or note. u s e 1001 formulated thereunder with respect to such works of improvement and such development and facilities in connection therewith located within the county of the lessee, and that for failure of the lessee to comply M'ith such agreement, the lessor shall be given the right in the lease agreement to cancel the lease upon thirty days written notice to the lessee; (b) that any such lease not be inconsistent with the provisions, or impair the purposes, of this compact; and (c) that any such lease be approved by the secretary of agriculture of the United States or other federal agent or agencies having authority to extend approval under the provisions of said act and agreements and works plan made or formulated thereunder. In the event the board of commissioners or county court of any one of the four counties named does not, within six months from the completion of the works of improvement and all such development and facilities in connection therewith located in such county, elect in writing transmitted to the commission to exercise the option given to it by the foregoing provisions, or in the event such option is exercised and the lease to such board of commissioners or county court is subsequently cancelled because of violation of the provision of the lease by the lessee, or in the event such option is exercised and the board of commissioners or county court subsequently chooses not to renew its lease, the commissioners may lease all or any part of the works of improvement and all such development and facilities in connection therewith located within such county to any other lessee which the commission may choose, and upon such terms as may be agreed upon, provided (a) that any such lease be approved by the" board of commissioners or county court of the county in which any part or all of the works of improvement and all such development and facilities in connection therewith are located; (b) that any such lease not be inconsistent with the provisions, or impair the purposes of this compact; (c) that any such lease be approved by the secretary of agriculture of the United States or other federal agent or agencies having authority to extend approval under the provisions of said act and agreements and work plans made or formulated thereunder; and the option of leasing in the board of commissioners of the County of Ohio, West Virginia, the county court of Marshall (\)unty. West Virginia, the board of commissioners of Greene County, Pennsylvania,

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