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Show 152 INTERSTATE COMPACTS "Done at the city of New York, New York, this thirteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven. "Charles H. Miner "S. Wood McClave, Jr. "Robert Y. Stuart "Carroll P. Bassett "Philip P. Wells "F. Morse Archer "Willard I. Hamilton "George MacDonald "Henry G. Parker "Rudolph Reimer "Harry Bacharach "J. D. Thompson." A third compact having been negotiated, the Governor of Delaware was authorized to sign it by the Act of June 5, 1951 (Laws 1951, p. 688). Similar authorizations were given the Governors of New Jersey (Act of June 25, 1951; Laws 1951, p. 978) and New York (Act of April 15,1952; Laws 1952, p. 1503) but not to the Governor of Penn- sylvania. As set out in the Delaware act cited above, this compact read as follows: "Whereas, the peoples of the states of Delaware, New Jersey and New York and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania have a common interest in the waters of the Delaware River Basin; and "Whereas, it is desirable that the water and water resources of the Delaware River and its tributaries be developed, utilized, controlled, and conserved for the benefit of all the people; and "Whereas, the United States Supreme Court, in its decision in the Delaware River Case (283 U.S. 336), established the principle of equitable apportionment of the waters of the Upper Delaware River Basin; and "Whereas, political subdivisions and metropolitan areas in the States of New Jersey and New York and the Commonwealth of Penn- sylvania have been confronted constantly with the problem of meeting existing and prospective requirements of the people within their respective areas for obtaining and maintaining an adequate and sat- isfactory supply of water, both for domestic and industrial purposes; and "Whereas, it is essential that there be maintained an adequate minimum flow in the Delaware River for the protection of public health, for the benefit of industry and of fisheries, such as oysters, clams and other shellfish, for animal and aquatic life, for recreation, for general sanitary conditions, for the dilution and abatement of pollution, and for the prevention of undue salinity; and "Whereas, for the purpose of promoting interstate cooperation in various fields of governmental operations, including the utilization, control and conservation of water resources of interstate river systems, the States of Delaware, New Jersey, and New York and the Common- wealth of Pennsylvania each has created and now maintains a Com- mission (or Committee] on Interstate Cooperation, which Commis- sions have jointly organized and established and are now maintaining, in cooperation with each of the others, a joint advisory board known as 'The Interstate Commission on the Delaware River Basin' for the purpose, among other activities, of formulating and recommending integrated programs for the development, utilization, control and conservation of the water resources of the Delaware River Basin; and |