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Show 96 INTERSTATE COMPACTS Delaware River Basin by authorizing and directing the Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army, to make a comprehensive survey and report on the water and related resources of the Dela- ware River Basin, enlisting the technical aid and planning partici- pation of many Federal, State, and municipal agencies dealing with the waters of the basin, and in particular the Federal Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Health, Education, and Welfare, and Interior, and the Federal Power Commission; and Whereas some twenty-two million people of the United States at present live and work in the region of the Delaware River Basin and its environs, and the government, employment, industry, and economic development of the entire region and the health, safety, and general welfare of its population are and will continue to be vitally 'affected by the use, conservation, management, and control of the water and related resources of the Delaware River Basin; and Whereas demands upon the waters and related resources of the basin are expected to mount rapidly because of the anticipated increase in the population of the region projected to reach thirty million by 1980 and forty million by 2010, and because of the anticipated increase in industrial growth projected to double by 1980; and "Whereas water resources planning and development is technical, com- plex, and expensive, and has often required fifteen to twenty years from the conception to the completion of a large dam and reservoir; and Whereas the public interest requires that facilities must be ready and operative when needed, to avoid the catastrophe of unexpected floods or prolonged drought, land for other purposes; and Whereas the Delaware River Basin Advisory Committee, a temporary body constituted by the Governors of the four basin States and the mayors of the cities of New York and Philadelphia, has pre- pared a draft of an interstate-Federal compact for the creation of a basin agency, and the signatory parties desire to effectuate the purposes thereof: Now therefore The States of Delaware, New Jersey and New York and the Com- monwealth of Pennsylvania and the United States of America hereby solemnly covenant and agree with each other, upon the enactment of concurrent legislation by the Congress of the United States and by the respective state legislatures, having the same effect as this Part1 to the following Compact:2 ARTICLE 1 SHORT TITLE, DEFINITIONS, PURPOSE AND LIMITATIONS Section 1.1 Short title. This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Delaware River Basin Compact. 1.2 Definitions. For the pmrposes of this compact, and of any sup- plemental or concurring legislation enacted pursuant thereto, except as may be otherwise required by the context: iiThe "Part" referred to Is designated as "Part I" in the State laws ratifying the Compact andi in the Act of Congress giving its consent to the Compact. "Part II" of these acts varies from jurisdiction and is not part of the Compact itself. 2Th,is paragraph is as it appears in the State laws ratifying the Compact. In the Act giving the consent of the Congress the following appears in its place: "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the United States hereby consents to, and joins the States of Delaware, New Jersey, and New York and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in, the following compact:" |