Water Pollution Control and Abatement: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress, First Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964 |
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acid mine drainage agencies authority BAXTER biochemical oxygen demand bonds Boro Borough CALLISON Chairman Chemical committee compact comprehensive plan CONGRESS construction cooling water cooperation Corps of Engineers County Creek Delaware Basin Delaware estuary Delaware River Basin Department of Health discharged to river dissolved oxygen Dover Air Force dredging effect effluent Electric enforcement estuary study facilities Federal Government INDRITZ industrial waste interest Jersey McCLORY ment million MONAGAN monitoring needs operation oysters Pennsylvania percent pollution abatement pollution problems population present primary projects Public Health Service purposes QUIGLEY RANDALL recreation Refinery regional reservoirs River Basin Commission ROUSH Schuylkill County Schuylkill River sewage treatment sewage treatment plants sewer signatory parties statement subcommittee tidal tion Township Trenton tributaries turbidity U.S. Geological Survey WALLHAUSER waste discharge water pollution water pollution control water quality water resources water supply WILBAR WRA/DRB WRIGHT
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Page 2070 - The compact shall be signed and sealed in six duplicate original copies by the respective chief executives of the signatory parties. One such copy shall be filed with the Secretary of State of each of the signatory parties or in accordance with the laws of the state in which the filing is made, and one copy shall be filed and retained in the archives of the commission upon its organization.
Page 2046 - Be it enacted by the Senate and Howe of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the...
Page 2046 - ... its extensive investigations, surveys, and studies concluded that regional development of the Delaware River Basin is feasible, advisable, and urgently needed; and has recommended that an interstate compact with Federal participation be consummated to this end; and Whereas the Congress of the United States and the executive branch of the Government have recognized the national interest in the Delaware River Basin by authorizing and directing the Corps of Engineers...
Page 2054 - 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...
Page 2066 - In the appointment of officials and the selection of employees for said Corporation, and in the promotion of any such employees or officials, no political test or qualification shall be permitted or given consideration, but all such appointments and promotions shall be given and made on the basis of merit and efficiency.
Page 2062 - ... require the authority to account as if it were the trustee of an express trust for the holders of such...
Page 2079 - Act ; or (2) be construed as impairing or in any manner affecting any right or jurisdiction of the States with respect to the waters (including boundary waters) of such States.
Page 2049 - An annual current expense budget, and an annual capital budget consistent with the water resources program covering the commission's projects and facilities for the budget period. 3.3. ALLOCATIONS, DIVERSIONS AND RELEASES. The commission shall have the power from time to time as need appears, in accordance with the doctrine of equitable apportionment, to allocate the waters of the basin to and among the states signatory to this compact...
Page 2050 - ... affect the rights, powers, privileges, conditions and obligations contained in the decree of the United States Supreme Court in New Jersey v. New York, 347 US 995 (1954). To this end, and without limitation thereto, the commission shall not: (a) Acquire, construct or operate any project or facility or make any order or take any action which would impede or interfere with the rights, powers, privileges, conditions or obligations contained in said decree...
Page 2072 - Service, or of any other officer or agency of the United States, relating to water pollution, or (2) affecting or impairing the provisions of the Oil Pollution Act, 1924, or sections 13 through 17 of the Act entitled 'An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors and for other purposes...