§ 21-1001. The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources\n Compact.\n GREAT LAKES-ST. LAWRENCE RIVER BASIN WATER RESOURCES COMPACT\n ARTICLE 1\n SHORT TITLE, DEFINITIONS, PURPOSES AND DURATION\n Section 1.1. Short Title. This act shall be known and may be cited as\nthe "Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact."\n Section 1.2. Definitions. For the purposes of this Compact, and of any\nsupplemental or concurring legislation enacted pursuant thereto, except\nas may be otherwise required by the context:\n Adaptive Management means a Water resources management system that\nprovides a systematic process for evaluation, monitoring and learning\nfrom the outcomes of operational programs and adjustment of policies,\nplans and programs based on experience and the evolution of scientific\nknowledge concerning Water resources and Water Dependent Natural\nResources.\n Agreement means the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Sustainable\nWater Resources Agreement.\n Applicant means a Person who is required to submit a Proposal that is\nsubject to management and regulation under this Compact. Application has\na corresponding meaning.\n Basin or Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin means the watershed of\nthe Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River upstream from Trois-Rivieres,\nQuebec within the jurisdiction of the Parties.\n Basin Ecosystem or Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Ecosystem\nmeans the interacting components of air, land, Water and living\norganisms, including humankind, within the Basin.\n Community within a Straddling County means any incorporated city, town\nor the equivalent thereof, that is located outside the Basin but wholly\nwithin a County that lies partly within the Basin and that is not a\nStraddling Community.\n Compact means this Compact.\n Consumptive Use means that portion of the Water Withdrawn or withheld\nfrom the Basin that is lost or otherwise not returned to the Basin due\nto evaporation, incorporation into Products, or other processes.\n Council means the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources\nCouncil, created by this Compact.\n Council Review means the collective review by the Council members as\ndescribed in article 4 of this Compact.\n County means the largest territorial division for local government in\na State. The County boundaries shall be defined as those boundaries that\nexist as of December 13, 2005.\n Cumulative Impacts mean the impact on the Basin Ecosystem that results\nfrom incremental effects of all aspects of a Withdrawal, Diversion or\nConsumptive Use in addition to other past, present, and reasonably\nforeseeable future Withdrawals, Diversions and Consumptive Uses\nregardless of who undertakes the other Withdrawals, Diversions and\nConsumptive Uses. Cumulative Impacts can result from individually minor\nbut collectively significant Withdrawals, Diversions and Consumptive\nUses taking place over a period of time.\n Decision-Making Standard means the decision-making standard\nestablished by Section 4.11 for Proposals subject to management and\nregulation in Section 4.10.\n Diversion means a transfer of Water from the Basin into another\nwatershed, or from the watershed of one of the Great Lakes into that of\nanother by any means of transfer, including but not limited to a\npipeline, canal, tunnel, aqueduct, channel, modification of the\ndirection of a water course, a tanker ship, tanker truck or rail tanker\nbut does not apply to Water that is used in the Basin or a Great Lake\nwatershed to manufacture or produce a Product that is then transferred\nout of the Basin or watershed. Divert has a corresponding meaning.\n Environmentally Sound and Economically Feasible Water Conservation\nMeasures mean those measures, methods, technologies or practices for\nefficient water use and for reduction of water loss and waste or for\nreducing a Withdrawal, Consumptive Use or Div
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