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Show CANADIAN BOUNDARY WATERS TREATY 391 of the two Governments March 19,1941, but which had not been acted on by the Congress and that "The Canadian Government, therefore, considers that agreement as having been superseded and does not intend to take any action to have it ratified." The text of this letter is reprinted in the hearings on S. 589 referred to above, p. 91. For the text of the 1941 agreement, see House Document 153, 77th Con- gress. By the Act of May 13, 1954 (68 Stat. 92), the Congress estab- lished the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation and author- ized it to cooperate with its Canadian counterpart in carrying out the navigation portion of the plans for developing the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Kiver basin. It did so on the condition, among others, that the Corporation first received "assurances satisfactory to it that the State of New York, or an entity duly designated by it, or other licensee of the Federal Power Commission, in conjunction with an appropriate agency in Canada, as nearly as possible concurrently with the navi- gation works herein authorized" would construct the power features of the undertaking as provided in the order of the International Joint Commission. Great Lakes area pollution control.-On November 19, 1951, the Governments of the United States and Canada "authorized the Inter- national Joint Commission to adopt the measures to facilitate control and prevention of pollution in the boundary waters connecting Lakes Superior, Huron, Erie, and Ontario" which had been recommended in the Commission's report of October 11, 1950, made in response to a joint reference by the two Governments on April 1,1946 (25 Depart- ment of State Bulletin 947 (1951)). The recommendations approved by the two Governments were summarized in the Bulletin as follows: "(1) Provide for adoption by the two Governments of specific ob- jectives for boundary waters quality control as the criteria to carry out that portion of the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909 wherein the two countries 'agreed that the waters herein defined as boundary waters and waters flowing across the boundary shall not be polluted on either side to the injury of health or property on the others.' (36 Stat. 2448) "(2) Provide for accomplishment, by those responsible for pollu- tion, of the measures necessary to obtain or maintain the specific water quality objectives. This program, which would necessarily require many years for completion, would cost approximately $125 million. " (3) Provide for continuing supervision of boundary waters qual- ity control by the Commission through international 'boards of control' and through the appropriate authorities in each country charged with enforcement of pollution control laws or regulations." See also 26 Department of State Bulletin 428 (1952) for appoint- ment of members on the Advisory Boards on Control of Pollution in Boundary Waters. In October 1964, Canada and the United States requested an investi- gation by the International Joint Commission to determine what measures were necessary to deal with pollution of the waters of Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, and the international section of the St. Lawrence River. An interim report on this subject was made by the Commission and forwarded by the Secretary of State to the Congress o'n February 1, 1966. Its principal recommendations were, in effect, that the two gov- |