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 94 STAT. 3252

Amendment.

PUBLIC LAW 96-551—DEC. 19, 1980

Any such proposition must be submitted to the voters of the district and shall become effective upon approval of two-thirds of the voters voting on the proposition. The revenues from any such tax must be used for the service for which it was imposed, and for no other purpose. (7) Provide service from inside the region to convenient airport, railroad and interstate bus terminals without regard to the boundaries of the region. (e) The legislatures of the States of California and Nevada may, by substantively identical enactments, amend this article. ARTICLE X.—MISCELLANEOUS

Withdrawal.

Interstate waters. Inter-agency cooperation.

U.S. representative.

(a) It is intended that the provisions of this compact shall be reasonably and liberally construed to effectuate the purposes thereof. Except as provided in subdivision (c), the provisions of this compact shall be severable and if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of this compact is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any participating State or of the United States or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this compact and the appliciability thereof to any government, agency, person or circumstance shall not be affected thereby. If this compact shall be held contrary to the constitution of any State participating therein, the compact shall remain in full force and effect as to the remaining State and in full force and effect as to the State affected as to all severable matters. (b) The agency shall have such additional powers and duties as may hereafter be delegated or imposed upon it from time to time by the action of the legislature of either State concurred in by the legislature of the other. (c) A State party to this compact may withdraw therefrom by enacting a statute repealing the compact. Notice of withdrawal shall be communicated officially and in writing to the Governor of the other State and to the agency administrators. This provision is not severable, and if it is held to be unconstitutional or invalid, no other provision of this compact shall be binding upon the State of Nevada or the State of California. (d) No provision of this compact shall have any effect upon the allocation, distribution or storage or interstate waters or upon any appropriative water right. SEC. 2. The Secretary of Agriculture and the heads of other appropriate agencies are authorized, upon the request of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, to cooperate with the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency in all respects compatible with carrying out the normal duties of their agencies. SEC. 3. The consent to the compact by the United States is subject to the condition that the President may appoint a nonvoting representative of the United States to the governing body of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. SEC. 4. Any additional powers conferred on the agency pursuant to article X, section 1(b) of the compact shall not be exercised unless consented to by the Congress. SEC. 5. Nothing contained in this Act or in the compact consented to shall in any way affect the powers, rights, or obligations of the United States, or the applicability of any law or regulation of the United States in, over or to the region or waters which are the subject of the compact, or in any way affect rights owned or held by or for Indians or Indian tribes subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.

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