OCR Text |
Show 468 Incodel has dealt mostly with the acute problems of pollu- tion abatement and water supply, but has also expressed con- cern over problems of flood control, navigation, salinity, soil conservation, forestation, water conservation, and recreation.849 It has drafted uniform acts covering pollution and water supply which formed the basis for legislation by each of the States concerned. The water-pollution legislation of Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania is in the form of an interstate agreement.350 This legislation recites the desirability of interstate action on Delaware River problems and declares that Incodel was formed for that purpose. It then sets out a "reciprocal agreement" which has received "formal ratification" by the health depart- sions as "an instrument of governmental machinery" for the purpose quoted in the text. See statutes cited below. The specified particulars referred to in the text are thus stated in the Delaware legislation; "A. To serve as a fact-coordinating body and to develop the means and procedure by which the general plans and policies proposed for the development of the region may be carried out; B. To sponsor the carrying out of properly developed plans which result from surveys and research concerning population, land and water resources and uses, and other related subjects; C. To coordinate the activities of the Commission and Committees on Interstate Cooperation and their joint agency, the Council of State Governments, with the work of the appropriate state and federal agencies for the prevention and abatement of pollution, for flood control and for the proper general use and control of the waters of the Delaware River; D. To encourage interestate (sic) compacts and the enactment of uniform state laws for the abatement of water pollution, for flood control and for the proper general use and control, of the waters of the Delaware River; E. To advance, perpetuate and outline the work recommended by its conferences, and to develop and propose new objectives * * *." Slightly different language is contained in the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Acts, but no such language appears in the New York legislation. Laws of Delaware, 1941, ch. 93, § 2; New Jersey Laws of 1939, ch. 146, Preamble; Laws of Pennsyl- vania, 1945, No. 123, § 2. Incodel consists of five members from each State's Commission on Inter- state Cooperation, and has a small staff and several technical advisory committees. The Interstate Commission on the Delaware River Basin, A Decade of Planned Progress, 1936-1946, App. (1946) ; The Book of the States, The Council of State Governments, p. 213 (1941-1942). 848 The Interstate Commission on the Delaware River Basin, A Decade of Planned Peogeess, 1936-1946, pp. 5-21 (1946). 850 Laws of Delaware, 1941, ch. 93; New Jersey Laws, 1939, ch. 146; Laws of Pennsylvania, 1945, No. 123. |