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PUBLIC LAW 90-420-JULY 24, 1968

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the applicability thereof to any state, agency, person or circumstance is held invalid, the constitutionality of the remainder of this compact and the applicability thereof to any state, agency, person or circumstance shall not be affected thereby, provided further that if this compact shall be held contrary to the constitution of the United States, or in the case of a Province, to the British North America Act of 1867 as amended, or of any party state, the compact shall remain in full force and effect as to the remaining states and in full force and effect as to the state affected as to all severable matters.'' SEC. 2. The consent herein granted does not extend to paragraph B of article II or to paragraphs J, K, and M of article VI of the c<mipact, or to other provisions of article VI of the compact which purport to authorize recommendations to, or cooperation with, any foreign or international governments, political subdivisions, agencies or bodies. In carrying out its functions under this Act the Commission shall be solely a consultative and recommendatory agency which will cooperate with the agencies of the United States. I t shall furnish to the Congress Report to Conand to the President, or to any official designated by the President, dent^.^ ^" '^^^' copies of its reports submitted to the party states pursuant to paragraph O of article IV of the compact. SEC. 3. Nothing contained in this Act or in the compact consented to hereby shall be construed to affect the jurisdiction, powers, or prerogatives of any department, agency, or officer of the United States Government or of the (xreat Lakes Basin Committee established under title II of the Water Resources Planning Act, or of any international 79 Stat. 246. 42 u s commission or agency over or in the Great Lakes Basin or any portion 1962b-6.e 1962bthereof, nor shall anything contained herein be construed to establish an international agency or to limit or affect in any way the exercise of the treatymaking power or any other power or right of the Ignited States. SEC. 4. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is expressly reserved. Approved July 24, 1968.

Public Law 90-420 AN ACT To ameiul the Xorthwest Atlantic Fisheries Act of 11)50 ( r u b l i c Law 81-84r»).

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Nortlnvest Atlantic Fisheries Act of 1950 (64 Stat. 1067; 16 U.S.C. 981-991) is amended as follows: (a) By changing the period in section 2(a) of the Act to a comma and adding the following words: "and amendments including the 1961 declaration of understanding and the 1963 protocol, as well as the convention signed at Washington under date of February 8, 1949." (b) By inserting the words "'or mamniar- after the word "iish" in section 2(g). (c) By adding a new subsection (h) in section 2 of the Act to read as follows: " (h) Fish: The word 'tisli" means any species of fish, mollusks, crustaceans, including lobsters, and all forms of marine animal life covered by the convention." (d) By deleting the words ''outside of the United States"' in section 4(b). Approved July 24, 1968.

July 24, 1968 [S^260]

Northwest Atlantic F i s h e r i e s Act of 1950, amendment. Definitions. 16 USC 981. 14 UST 924; 17 UST 635. 1 UST 477.

16 USC 983.

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