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Show NEW YORK HARBOR (TRI-STATE) COMPACT 229 and district authorities having jurisdiction over stream pollution, with a view to coordinating their activities and securing the most satisfactory results at lower cost. For such purpose the commission may prepare a general plan1 of the most practicable and economical method of securing conformity with the standards herein set forth, liaving in view the future growth and development of the district. Such plan when completed shall be submitted to the Governor and the Legislature of each State and to the State agency or agencies or district agencies in charge of sewage problems. The provisions of this act shall not affect the discharge from the outfall pipes of the Passaic Valley sewerage system into the waters of New York Harbor: Provided, however, That said discharge shall be in accordance with the terms and provisions of the stipulation entered into on April fourteenth, one thousand nine hundred and ten, between the United States of America and Passaic Valley Sewer- age Commissioners. ARTICLE XIII 1. Terms used in this compact are defined as follows: "District" means the area more particularly described in article II of this compact. "Commission" means the Interstate Sanitation Commission. "Municipality" means anv city, incorporated village, borough, county, town, township, district, or any municipality governed by an improvement commission, any joint sewer commission, or any other subdivision of any one of the signatory States located within the district. "Rule or regulation" means any_ rule or regulation established by the commission not inconsistent with the Constitution of the United States or of any signatory State, promulgated by the commission touching the abatement of pollution of the waters of the district. "Tidal waters" means all those waters which ebb and flow within the designated district. "Dissolved oxygen" is the gaseous oxygen held in solution by the water at any given time. It is expressed as a percentage of the maxi- mum amount of oxygen that would be required to saturate the water under the existing conditions of temperature and salinity. "Pollution" is any foreign matter which renders waters unfit to sustain fish life and unsatisfactory for bathing. "Sewage effluent" means the treated sewage discharged from a treatment plant. "Suspended solids" means those solid particles carried in suspension in the untreated sewage or sewage effluent. "Entity" means any organization or association owning, controlling, or operating a sewerage system or treatment plant within a municipality. ARTICLE XIV 1. The signatory States agree to appropriate annually for the salaries and office and other administrative expenses such sum or sums as shall be recommended by the commission and approved by the Gov- ernors of the signatory States, the State of New York and the State of New Jersey agreeing each to appropriate 45 per centum thereof, and the State of Connecticut agreeing to appropriate 10 per centum |