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Show 154 INTERSTATE COMPACTS "(a) to meet the domestic and industrial requirements of po- litical subdivisions and metropolitan areas within those States; "(b) to provide an adequate minimum flow in the Delaware River for the protection of public health, for the benefit of in- dustry 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 "(c) to provide for such other uses of water as navigation, flood control, production of hydroelectric power, and related uses. "2. In order to effectuate the foregoing purposes, the Commission shall determine the exact locations and character of, formulate plans for, and determine all matters in connection with, the construction, operation and maintenance of dams, reservoirs, and appurtenant structures within the Delaware Basin for the storage and effective regulation of the water resources thereof, and treatment plants, aqueducts, conduits, or other facilities, and shall finance, construct, operate and maintain such structures and facilities as are deemed necessary to the following project, or a reasonable modification thereof, that is to say: (a) a dam across the West Branch of the Delaware River near Cannonsville, New York; (b) a dam across the Delaware River near Barryville, New York; (c) a dam across the Neversink River near Godeffroy, New York; (d) a dam across the Delaware River near Wallpack Bend; (e) a dam across the East Branch of the Delaware River near Fisher's Eddy; (f) a dam across Flat Brook near Flatbrookville, New Jersey; (g) an aqueduct connecting the reservoir created by the dam across the Delaware River near Barryville, New York, with the reservoir on the Neversink River created by a dam near Godeffroy, New York; (h) an aqueduct, with equalizing reservoir en route, to convey a supply of water from the reservoir on the Neversink River created by the dam near Godeffroy, New York, to municipalities in northern New Jersey and to New York City; and (i) such reservoirs, tunnels, conduits, and other facilities required to furnish water supply to Philadelphia and adjacent areas. "ARTICLE II-COMMISSIONERS "1. The Commission shall consist of three members from each sig- natory State, who shall be citizens and residents thereof and shall be appointed by the Governor of that State, by and with the consent of its Senate, unless its Constitution otherwise provides. "2. The term of each such Commissioner shall be for five years; pro- vided, however, that the terms of the three Commissioners first ap- pointed by each State shall be as follows, to wit: one for three years, one for four years, and one for five years. All Commissioners shall continue to hold office after the expirations of the terms for which they shall have been appointed until their respective successors shall have been appointed and qualified, but no period during which any Commissioner shall hold over shall be deemed to be an extension of his term of office for the purpose of computing the date on which his successor's term expires. "3. Any Commissioner may be removed or suspended from office as provided by the Constitution or applicable law of the State which |
