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Show 234 INTERSTATE COMPACTS imposing additional conditions and restrictions to further lessen or prevent the pollution of waters within its jurisdiction. article vm The Commission shall conduct a survey of the territory included within the District, shall study the pollution problems of the District, and shall make a comprehensive report for the prevention or reduction of stream pollution therein. In preparing such report, the Commission shall confer with any national or regional planning body which may be established, and any department of the Federal Government au- thorized to deal with matters relating to the pollution problems of the District. The Commission shall draft and recommend to the gov- ernors of the various signatory States uniform legislation dealing with the pollution of rivers, streams and waters and other pollution prob- lems within the District. The Commission shall consult with and ad- vise the various States, communities, municipalities, corporations, per- sons, or other entities with regard to particular problems connected with the pollution of waters, particularly with regard to the construc- tion of plants for the disposal of sewage, industrial and other waste. The Commission shall, more than one month prior to any regular meeting of the legislature of any State which is a party thereto, present to the governor of the State its recommendations relating to enact- ments to be made by any legislature in furthering the intents and pur- poses of this compact. ARTICLE IX The Commission may from time to time, after investigation and after a hearing, issue an order or orders upon any municipality, cor- poration, person, or other entity discharging sewage or industrial waste into the Ohio River or any other river, stream or water, any part of which constitutes any part of the boundary line between any two or more of the signatory States, or into any stream any part of which flows from any portion of one signatory State through any portion of another signatory State. Any such order or orders may prescribe the date on or before which such discharge shall be wholly or partially discontinued, modified or treated or otherwise disposed of. The Commission shall give reasonable notice of the time and place of the hearing to the municipality, corporation or other entity against which such order is proposed. No such order shall go into effect unless and until it receives the assent of at least a majority of the commissioners from each of not less than a majority of the signa- tory States; and no such order upon a municipality, corporation, per- son or entity in any State shall go into effect unless and until it re- ceives the assent of not less than a majority of the commissioners from such State. It shall be the duty of the municipality, corporation, person or other entity to comply with any such order issued against it or him by the Commission, and any court of general jurisdiction or any United States district court in.any of the signatory States shall have the jurisdiction, by mandamus, injunction, specific performance or other form of remedy, to enforce any such order against any munici- pality, corporation or other entity domiciled or located within such State or whose discharge of the waste takes place within or adjoining |