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Show 340 Responsibility for administration of the program rests with the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service. In coopera- tion with federal agencies, state agencies, interstate agencies, and with the municipalities and industries involved, he must prepare comprehensive programs "for eliminating or reducing the pollution of interstate waters and tributaries thereof and improving the sanitary condition of surface and underground waters."120 Due regard must be given to improvements neces- sary to conserve waters for "public water supplies, propagation of fish and aquatic life, recreational purposes, and agricultural, industrial, and other legitimate uses." 121 The Surgeon General is directed to collect and disseminate information relating to water pollution and its prevention and abatement, to support and aid certain technical research, and to make available the results of specified work conducted by him and cooperating agencies. Moreover, he must encourage cooperative state action, enactment of uniform state laws, and compacts between states.122 Blanket consent of Congress is given for negotiation of interstate compacts for prevention and abatement of pollution, and for establishment of agencies to make such compacts effective.123 To this date there has been no approval of such a compact by Congress, a concluding step required under the Act.124 ' 12° § 2(a), 62 Stat. 1155,33 U. S. C. 466a(a) (Supp. III). 121 Id. 122§2(b), 62 Stat. 1156, 33 U. S. C. 466a(b) (Supp. III). In this con- nection, it should be noted that the Public Health Service has recently pre- pared a suggested state law for water-pollution control which the Council of State Governments endorsed and recommended to the states for favorable consideration. A Suggested State Wateb Pollution Contbol Act, and ac- companying Explanatory Statement, prepared in the Federal Security Administration by the Public Health Service, October 1950. 123 § 2(e), 62 Stat. 1156, 33 U. S. O. 466a(c) (Supp. III). 124 Apart from the Act, it should be noted, however, that several compacts for the control and abatement of pollution have been negotiated. See Tri- State Compact (Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York, Act of August 27, 1935, 49 Stat. 932); Red River of the North Compact (Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota, Act of April 2, 1988, 52 Stat. 150); Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Compact (Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, Act of July 11, 1940, 54 Stat. 752) ; Potomac River Compact (District of Columbia, Mary- land, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia, Act of July 11, 1940, 54 |