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PUBLIC LAW 91-407-SEPT. 25, 1970

[84 STAT.

Public Law 91-407 September 25, 1970 [S. J. R e s. 67]

33 USC S67b.

Compact for creation of Potomac Valley Conservancy District and Inters t a t e Commission on the Potomac River B a s i n, amendment.

JOINT RESOLUTION (Granting the consent of Congress to the States of Maryland and West Virginia and the Commonwealths of Virginia and Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia, as signatory bodies, for certain amendments to the compact creating the Potomac Valley Conservancy District and establishing the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin.

Whereas, by Public Resolution Numbered 93, Seventy-sixth Congress, third session, approved July 11, 1940 (54 Stat. 748), Congress granted consent to the States of Maryland and West Virginia and the Commonwealths of Virginia and Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia, hereinafter designated signatory bodies, to enter into a compact for the creation of a Potomac Valley Conservancy District and the establishment of the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin; and Whereas, all said signatory bodies have entered into said compact; and Whereas, all the said signatory bodies have adopted identical proposed amendments to said compact, for which they seek the consent of Congress, by virtue of which amendments said compact will read as follows: "COMPACT it is recognized that abatement of existing pollution and the control of future pollution of interstate streams can best be promoted through a joint agency representing the several states located wholly or in part within the area drained by any such interstate stream; and "WHEREAS, the Congress of the United States has given its consent to the States of Maryland and West Virginia, the Commonwealths of Pennsylvania and Virginia, and the District of Columbia to enter into a compact providing for the creation of a conservancy district to consist of the drainage basin of the Potomac river and the main and tributary streams therein, for 'the purpose of regulating, controlling, preventing, or otherwise rendering unobjectionable and harmless the pollution of the waters of said Potomac drainage area by sewage and industrial and other wastes'; and "WHEREAS, the regulation, control and prevention of pollution is directly affected by the quantities of water in said streams and the uses to which such water may be put, thereby requiring integration and coordination of the planning for the development and use of the water and associated land resources through cooperation with, and support and coordination of, the activities of Federal, State, local and private agencies, groups, and interests concerned with the development, utilization and conservation of the water and associated land resources of the said conservancy district; "Now, therefore, the States of Maryland and West Virginia, the ("Commonwealths of Pennsylvania and Virginia, and the District of Columbia, hereinafter designated signatory bodies, do hereby create the Potomac Valley Conservancy District, hereinafter designated the Conservancy District, comprising all of the area drained by the Potomac River and its tributaries; and also, da hereby create, as an agency of each signatory body, the I n t e r ^ t e Commission on the Potomac River Basin, hereinafter designated the Commission, under the articles of organization as set forth below. "WHEREAS,

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