§ 567a. — Flood and pollution control compacts between certain States.
[Laws in effect as of January 7, 2003]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 7, 2003 and December 19, 2003]
[CITE: 33USC567a]
TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
CHAPTER 12--RIVER AND HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS GENERALLY
SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 567a. Flood and pollution control compacts between certain
States
The consent of the Congress of the United States is given to the
States of Maine, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana,
Illinois, Tennessee, and Ohio, or any two or more of them, to negotiate
and enter into agreements or compacts for conserving and regulating the
flow, lessening flood damage, removing sources of pollution of the
waters thereof, or making other public improvements on any rivers or
streams whose drainage basins lie within any two or more of the said
States.
No such compact or agreement shall be binding or obligatory upon any
State a party thereto unless and until it has been approved by the
legislatures of each of the States whose assent is contemplated by the
terms of the compact or agreement and by the Congress.
(June 8, 1936, ch. 542, Secs. 1, 2, 49 Stat. 1490.)
Approval of Compact by Congress
Act July 11, 1940, ch. 581, 54 Stat. 752, provided in part that:
``The consent and approval of Congress is hereby given to an interstate
compact relating to the control and reduction of the pollution of the
streams of the Ohio River drainage basin negotiated and entered into or
to be entered into under authority of Public Resolution Numbered 104,
Seventy-fourth Congress, approved June 8, 1936, [this section] and now
ratified by the States of New York, Illinois, Kentucky, and Indiana, and
by the State of Ohio (whose ratification is to go into effect at the
time at which the States of New York, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia
enter into said compact as parties and signatory States), also by the
State of West Virginia (whose ratification is to go into effect at the
time at which the States of New York, Ohio, Virginia, and Pennsylvania
enter into said compact as parties and signatory States) * * *.''
``Sec. 2. Without further submission of said compact, the consent of
Congress is hereby given to the State of Virginia or any other State
with waters in the Ohio River drainage basin, entering into said compact
as a signatory State and party in addition to the States therein named
or any of them.
``Sec. 3. The commissioners to represent the United States, as
provided in article IV of said compact, shall be appointed by the
President.
``Sec. 4. Nothing contained in this Act or in the compact herein
approved shall be construed as impairing or affecting the sovereignty of
the United States or any of its rights or jurisdiction in and over the
area or waters which are the subject of such compact.
``Sec. 5. The right to alter, amend, or repeal the provisions of
section 1 is hereby expressly reserved.''
