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 97 STAT. 866 PUBLIC LAW 98-138—OCT. 28, 1983 Public Law 98-138 98th Congress Oct. 28, 1983 [H.R. 3044] Connecticut River Basin Atlantic salmon compact, congressional consent. Connecticut River Atlantic Salmon Commission. Effective date. Representatives and members. An Act To grant the consent of the Congress to an interstate agreement or compact relating to the restoration of Atlantic Salmon in the Connecticut River Basin, and to allow the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of the Interior to participate as members in a Connecticut River Atlantic Salmon Commission. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Congress consents to the interstate compact relating to the restoration of Atlantic salmon to the Connecticut River Basin and creating the Connecticut River Atlantic Salmon Commission, which compact was entered into by the States of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont pursuant to the laws of those respective States and is set forth in the statutes of the States of Connecticut (P.A. 79 -528), Massachusetts (Chap. 716, 1981), New Hampshire (108:1, 1979), and Vermont (1979, No. 89; Amended in 1981, No. 85:9) and reads substantially as follows: "ARTICLE I "The purpose of this compact is to promote the restoration of anadromous Atlantic salmon, hereinafter referred to as Atlantic salmon, in the Connecticut River Basin by the development of a joint interstate program for stocking, protection, management, re- search, and regulation. It is the purpose of this compact to restore Atlantic salmon to the Connecticut River in numbers as near as possible to their historical abundance. "ARTICLE II "This agreement shall become operative immediately whenever all of the States of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont have executed it in a form that is in accordance with the laws of the executing State and the Congress has given its consent. "ARTICLE III "Each State joining herein shall appoint two representatives to a commission hereby constituted and designated as the Connecticut River Atlantic Salmon Commission. One shall be the executive officer of the administrative agency of such State charged with the management of the fisheries resources to which this compact per- tains or his designee. The second shall be a citizen who shall have a knowledge and interest in Atlantic salmon to be appointed by the Governor for a term of three years. The Director of the northeast region of the Fish and Wildlife Service, United States Department of the Interior or his designee and the Director of the northeast region of the National Marine Fisheries Service, United States Department of Commerce, or his designee shall be members of said commission.

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