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Show 662 INTERSTATE ADJUDICATIONS and if it further appears that all f easibile means reasonably available to the State of Illinois and its municipalities, political subdivisions, agencies, and instrumentalities have been employed to improve the water quality of the Sanitary and Ship Canal and to conserve and manage the water resources of the region and the use of water therein in accordance with the best modern scientific knowledge and engineer- ing practice. "5. This decree Shall become effective on March 1, 1970, and shall thereupon supersede the decree entered by this Court in Nos. 1, 2, and 3, Original Docket, on April 21, 1930, as enlarged May 22, 1933, pro- vided that for the period between January 1,1970, and March 1,1970, the amount of water diverted by Illinois into the Sanitary and Ship Canal (determined in accordance with paragraph 2 of this decree) shall not exceed an average of 1,500 cubic feet per second. "6. The complaint of the State of Illinois in No. 11, Original Docket, on behalf of its instrumentality, the Elmhurst-Villa Park-Lombard Water Commission, is hereby dismissed, without prejudice to that Commission sharing in the water permitted by this decree to be di- verted from Lake Michigan. "7. Any of the parties hereto may apply at the foot of this decree for any other or further action or relief, and this Court retains juris- diction of the suits in Nos. 1,2, and 3, Original Docket, for the purpose of making any order or direction, or modification of this decree, or any supplemental decree, which it may deem at any time to be proper in relation to the subject matter in controversy. "8. All the parties to these proceedings shall bear their own costs. The costs and expenses of the Special Master shall be equally divided between the plaintiffs as a group and the defendants as a group in Nos. 1, 2, and 3, Original Docket. The costs and expenses thus im- posed upon the plaintiffs and defendants shall be borne by the indi- vidual plaintiffs and defendants, respectively, in equal shares." Congressional measures and Presidential vetoes.-A number of bills have been introduced in the Congress over the years to permit in- creased diversions of water from Lake Michigan. Two of these- H.R. 3300, 83d Congress, and H.R. 3210, 84th Congress-passed both Houses but failed to receive the approval of the President. In a statement issued September 3,1954 on the first of these, the President said (100 Cong. Bee. 15569) : "I have withheld my approval of H.R. 3300 'To authorize the State of Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago, under the direction of the Secretary of the Army, to help control the lake level of Lake Michigan by diverting water from Lake Michigan into the Illinois waterway.' "The bill would authorize the State of Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago, under the supervision and direction of the Secre- tary of the Army to withdraw from Lake Michigan, in addition to all domestic pumpage, a total annual average of 2,500 cubic feet of water per second into the Illinois waterway for a period of 3 years. This diversion would be 1,000 cubic feet per second more than is presently permitted under a decree of the Supreme Court of the United States dated April 21, 1930. The bill also would direct the Secretary of the Army to study the effect in the improvement in conditions in the Illinois waterway by reason of the increased diversion, and to report |