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Show 252 INTERSTATE COMPACTS quirements for employees of any of the signatory bodies. The Com- mission may maintain one or more offices for the transaction of its business and may meet at any time or place within the area of the Conservancy District. (C) The Commission shall keep accurate accounts of all receipts and disbursements and shall make an annual report thereof and shall in such report set forth in detail the operations and transactions con- ducted by it pursuant to this compact. The Commission, however, shall not incur any obligations for administrative or other expenses prior to the making of appropriations adequate to meet the same nor shall it in any way pledge the credit of any of the signatory bodies. Each of the signatory bodies reserves the right to make at any time an examination and audit of the accounts of the Commission. (D) A quorum of the Commission shall, for the transaction of busi- ness, the exercise of any powers, or the performance of any duties, consist of at least a majority of the members of the Commission; provided, however, that no action of the Commission relating to policy shall be binding on any one of the signatory bodies unless at least two of the Commissioners from such signatory body shall vote in favor thereof. ARTICLE II The Commission shall have the power and its duties shall be: (A) To coordinate, tabulate, and summarize technical and other data now available, or as shall become available in the future from any source, on the pollution of the streams of the Conservancy Dis- trict and on the character and conditions of such streams, and to prepare reports thereon annually and at such other times as may bo deemed advisable by the Commission. (B) To supplement existing information and data, and to secure new data by such investigations, analyses, or other means as may be necessary to secure adequate information on the character and con- dition of the streams of the Conservancy District as they now exist or may be affected by the future discharge of sewage and industrial and other wastes into the said stream. (C) To cooperate with the legislative and administrative agencies of the signatory bodies, or the equivalent thereof, and with other interested commissions and similar organizations for the purpose of promoting uniform laws, rules and regulations for the abatement and control of pollution of streams in the said Conservancy District. (D) To disseminate to the public information on the aims and purposes of the Commission and on the harmful and uneconomical results of stream pollution, through the issuance of bulletins, circulars, correspondence, literature and reports. (E) To cooperate with other organizations engaged in fact-finding and research activities on the treatment of sewage and industrial wastes or other wastes, and if deemed advisable, to institute and con- duct such research and fact-finding activities. (F) To make and, if needful from time to time, revise and to rec- ommend to the signatory bodies, reasonable, minimum standards for the treatment of sewage and industrial or other wastes now discharged or to be discharged in the future to the streams of the Conservancy District, and also, for cleanliness of the various streams in the con- servancy District. |