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The compact with the pollution control clause did not pass the Oregon Legislature in 1965 and the compact attempt was discontinued shortly thereafter.
The Current Situation
With the advent of the Environmental Protection Agency and the...
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THE ADMINISTRATION OF INTERSTATE AND FEDERAL-INTERSTATE WATER COMPACTS
Administrative agencies created by interstate or federal-interstate compacts are variously called authorities, commissions, administrations, boards, and agencies,. The...
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The physical and all other conditions peculiar to the Bear River constitute the basis for this Compact. No general principle or precedent with respect to any other interstate stream is intended to be established. 2/
Administration...
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Although Congress approved this method of federal representation, the Office of Management and Budget was highly critical of it, recommending that such practices be discontinued. 7/ Finally, while compacts may specify that commissioners reside in...
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votes. 12/ Arbitration procedures are authorized in the majority of other
compacts. The following arbitration procedure authorized in the Klamath River Compact is representative:
In the case of the failure of the two voting members of the...
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The other funding formula widely used stipulates that the compacting states assume financial obligations on the basis of their share of the river basins waters. 15/
About half of the compact commissions stipulate that the commission's budget...
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its duties under this Compact; Sue and be sued as a legal entity in any court of record of a signatory state, and in any court
of the United States having jurisdiction of such action; Cooperate with State and Federal agencies in matters relating...
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the river basins' water quality, pollution control and abatement are subordinate to some other central purpose. The following analysis focuses on the single purpose water pollution control compacts addressing only the major differences between...
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Membership
The signatory parties in all of the single purpose pollution control compacts have three to five representatives on the compact commission. Of all the single purpose compacts, only the New England specifies that commissioners...
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Funding
Funding arrangements vary, but all of the compact commissions are dependent for their finances on appropriations from the compacting parties. In all cases, the signatory parties are responsible for the salaries and expenses of their...
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Because of the limited powers of the compact commissions, enforcement activities of the commissions have been negligible. This is not to say, however, that the compact commissions through the wise use of their limited powers have not substantially...
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Membership, Voting, and Jurisdiction
Members of the compact commission include the Governors of the signatory states, ex-officio, and one commissioner appointed by the President of the United States, who serves during the term of office of the...
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While the commission has the authority to raise funds for its capital budget in the private money market, it must rely on appropriations from the signatory jurisdictions for its current expense budget. 37
The proportion of the commission's...
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development and uses of the water resources of the basin; a water resources program, based upon the comprehensive plan, which shall include a systematic preservation of the quantity and quality of water resources needs of the area to be served for...
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part or revision thereof, has been adopted with the concurrence of the member appointed by the President, the exercise of any powers conferred by law on any officer, agency or instrumentality of the United States with regard to water and related...
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While this is perhaps the greatest limitation of commission authority, other sections of the compact specifically enjoin the commission from operating watershed management and recreation projects unless no other agency is able
to do so. 45 /...
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Footnotes--Part VI
1/ Richard H. Leach and Redding S. Sugg, Jr., The Administration of Interstate Compacts. New York: Greenwood Press, 1969, p. 62.
2/ Article I, Bear River Compact.
3/ Article IX, a, Klamath River Compact. 4/ Article VIII,...
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21/ Article I, Ohio River Valley Sanitation Compact.
22/ Article III, New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Compact. 23/ Ibid.
24/ Article IV, Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Compact.
25/ Article I, Interstate Commission on the...
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OBJECTIVES AND METHODOLOGY
Objectives
This project was undertaken to accomplish the following objectives:
1. To identify and define the policy issues which were related to the negotiation and legislative history of the Columbia Interstate...
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Commission minutes, review the historical disposition of the issues based upon relevant literature, and refer to newspaper articles and interview data for current status of the issues. Some of this work already had been accomplished by the...
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considerable flexibility in order to explore the specific interests of each individual and each state.
Throughout the study, the investigators attempted to remain neutral with regard to a compact or other form of interstate cooperation. At no...
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questionnaire format allowed for the identification of additional issues.
3. There may be some error in weighting the responses. Some persons were more knowledgeable on water issues and/or were more politically influential than others....
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73 p. A report submitted to the Pacific Northwest Regional Commission detailing issues of importance to interstate water compact negotiations. Addressed are subjects identified as being related to interstate water resource policies in the Pacific...
1975-03-01
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