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Show 222 INTERSTATE COMPACTS of New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont each only to the extent of one thousand dollars in any one year. ARTICLE IX Should any part of this compact be held to be contrary to the constitution of any signatory state or of the United States, all other parts thereof shall continue to be in full force and effect. article x The commission is authorized to discuss with appropriate state agencies in New York state questions of pollution of waters which flow into the New England area from New York state or vice versa and to further the establishment of agreements on pollution abatement to promote the interests of the New York and New England areas. Whenever the commission by majority vote of the members of each signatory state shall have given its approval and the state of New York shall have taken the necessary action to do so, the state of New York shall be a party of this compact for the purpose of controlling and abating the pollution of waterways common to New York and the New England states signatory to this compact but excluding the waters under the jurisdiction of the Interstate Sanitation Commission (New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut). ARTICLE XI This compact shall become effective immediately upon the adoption of the compact by any two contiguous states of New England but only in so far as applies to those states and upon approval by Federal law. Thereafter upon ratification by other contiguous states, it shall also become effective as to those states. NOTES Congressional consent to negotiations.-By the Joint Resolution of June 8,1936 (49 Stat. 1490), the Congress gave its consent to the ne- gotiation by certain named States-among them, the parties to the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Compact-of "agreements or compacts for conserving and regulating the flow, less- ening flood damage, removing sources of pollution of the waters thereof, or making other public improvements on any rivers or streams whose drainage basins lie within any two or more of the said States." It also provided that no such compact or agreement should be "binding or obligatory upon any State a party thereto unless and until it has been approved by the legislatures of each of the States whose assent is contemplated by the terms of the compact or agreement and by the Congress." State ratifications.-Connecticut, Act, effective June 16, 1947 (Pub. Acts 1947, p. 166; Conn. Gen. Stat. 1949, sec. 3558). |