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Show NEW ENGLAND POLLUTION CONTROL COMPACT 223 Maine, Act effective August 20,1955 (Acts and Eesolves 1955, p. 509; Me. Kev. Stat. Ann. 1964, sec. 531 ).1 Massachusetts, Act of May 19,1947 (Acts and Resolves 1947, p. 399). New Hampshire, Act of July 30,1951 (Laws 1951, p. 401; N. H. Rev. Stat. Ann. 1955, sec. 488:1). New York, Act of April 23,1949 (Laws 1949, p. 1709); Act of April 11,1961 (Laws 1961, p. 1605; McKinney's Cons. L. N.Y. Ann., Book 44, sec. 1180). Rhode Island, Act of March 19, 1947 (Pub. Laws 1947, p. 57), as amended by Act of June 2,1947 (Pub. Laws 1947, p. 341; R.I. Gen. L. 1956, sec. 46-16-1). Vermont, Act of May 12, 1949 (Laws 1949, p. 141; Vt. Stat. Ann. 1958,Tit.lO,sec.991). Congressional consent to compact.-The "consent and approval" of Congress was given the New England Interstate Water Pollution Con- trol Compact by the Act of July 31, 1947 (61 Stat. 682), from which the text of the compact above set out is taken. Section 3 of the Act provides that "Nothing contained in this Act or in the compact herein approved shall be construed as impairing or affecting the sovereignty of the United States or any of its rights or jurisdiction in and over the area or waters which are the subject of the compact." Section 4 "expressly reserved" the "right to alter, amend, or repeal" the Act. For legislative history, see S. 1418 and H. R. 3875, 80th Congress; Senate Report 680 (Committee on Public Works) and House Report 1062 (Committee on Public Works), 80th Congress; 93 Gong. Bee. 9838-9840,10216-10218 (1947) j P. L. 292,80th Congress. 1 Section 3 of Maine's ratifying act limited to $1,000 the amount to be appropriated annually for compatct purposes and provided that this limitation should be "a condition under which it [the State]) shall become a pajrty" to the compact. It also provided that "The State, as a further condition under which it shall become a party to the compact, reserves the right to withdraw therefrom at any time upon 60 days' notice to the chairman of the Commission" and,1 authorized the Governor to give such notice whenever he deter- mines such action to be "in the best interests of the State * * *." Section 7 of the same act provided that Maine's membens of the Commission should have no authority to (commit the State, any of its political subdivisions, or anyone in the State "to any classification of the interstate waters of the State of Maine, or to any standards of water quality appertaining to any such classification, which in any aspect shall impose a higher classification or higher waiter quality than are [sic]; established by the laws of the State of Maine for such waters" or "to any classification and pertinent stand- ards of water quality in respect to such, interstate waters of the State or Maine asi have not been assigned a classification under the laws of the State of Maine" and that no classification of waters or standards of water quality theretofore established by the New England Water Pollution Control Commission should be binding on the State or anyone in the State. |